What do you get when you mash a brilliantly atmospheric crime procedural with the vintage feel of a locked room murder?  Almost perfection!!!

Will and Sara are on their honeymoon and still they manage to find a murder to solve. McAlpine Lodge is remote and beautiful but it hides a lot of secrets, the newest more shocking than the last.  The story is told by slipping backwards in time occasionally to see parts of the story unfold as they are discovered in the current timeline.  It really made for an interesting story.

Mercy, our victim, comes from the most toxic family I've ever had the misfortune to read about.  I really wanted a shower after parts of the story were revealed.  She isn't the most sympathetic of victims and you really have to work sometimes to feel sorry she is gone!

There are some almighty twists and just when you think the murder is solved, there is one more twist to make you gasp.

Faith and Amanda all make an appearance to help solve the murder and I love this little family that Will has built for himself.

I had such high hopes for this book after reading the first chapter. I was on the edge of my seat to find out whodunnit!

I haven’t read any other books by this author, especially any from the rest of this series, so I didn’t really know what to expect.

I loved all the characters and found their back stories to be really interesting. However, I think the vast amount of information offered about each character was saturating the story for me and I eventually had to admit defeat at 27% and skip to the end.

I think the premise of the story is great, I just couldn’t deal with each chapter being about 20-something pages long and I felt I was losing traction amongst all the back-story.

I wish this book every success and I’m sure those who love the others in this series will enjoy it.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

As well as being an exciting read I found this book very sad. Mercy had a really hard life with parents who had no interest in her, an ex who bullied and beat her and a son who she barely knew. If only she had realised that the only person who would fight her corner was Aunt Delilah.
The beginning of this story set the pace for the book and it never let up. Will and Sarah faced a hostile crowd of suspects because they had not been honest about their jobs when they arrived but as everyone else is also lying their work is even more difficult than usual. All in all it was a gripping read with an unbelievable twist at the end.

This is book 12 in the Will Trent book series. Karin Slaughter knows how to write a well developed twisty thriller that never lets up and keeps firing the surprises at you that your head is in a complete spin. Omg the McAlpines are a family full of many a dark secret with most members being truly detestable. Will Trent, Sara Linton, Faith and Amanda are as loveable as always and it’s just like coming home to old friends. There is a lot going on within this storyline so you need to keep your wits about you and your detective skills need to be on point. I honestly couldn’t stop listening and even though it’s a lengthy listen it didn’t feel like that. It’s a fast pace listen and the narration was very engaging. Add it to your TBR pile.

Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins UK Audio for the opportunity to read and review #ThisIsWhyWeLied

4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


✨ domestic violence
✨ everyone is a suspect
✨detective work




✨ the story was focused on the secluded cabin and they found someone got murdered . The cabin owners daughter. She suffered a lot from being abused,rape and murder. There some trigger points here so be aware .
Everyone who’s on that retreat is the suspect. The back and forth of investigation which is quite thrilling.
I got to be honest this story was a missed for me.

✨ firstly, yes there’s is a lot of suspects . Who is it gonna be? But I get so confused with the mixed of characters and not clear .
It should’ve been a good read but it was so draggy and long.


Thankyou @harpercollinsuk for the arc copy of this book for a honest review.



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The first half of this book is incredibly slow. The second half is faster paced, but the whole book is summed up in the final chapter - had I realised this partway through, I would have skipped to that section and saved several hours of my life. The book is full of incestuous and abusive relationships and has no likeable characters. 2 stars for the final chapter.

Once again Karin Slaughter has hit the target with this book!
Sara and Will go on their honeymoon but whilst there a body is discovered.
This book is fast paced and a great read. I highly recommend it

This is my first book in the Will and Sara series. The couple have just married and I gather it has been a long time coming, but when the owner of the resort they are honeymooning in is murdered, they are soon involved in the investigation.

Nobody seems particularly shocked when Mercy is found dead and everyone theoretically has a motive, so there are lots of twists and turns and some throughly unlikeable characters who I could well have believed were guilty, and some horrifying family history that was revealed throughout.

I found it difficult to connect with any of the characters, which made it difficult to care about what happened to them and the story was a bit too much of a slow burn for me, but there was a good and unexpected reveal at the end and I would definitely like to catch up with some earlier books in this series.

3 ⭐️ Thanks to Netgalley, Karin Slaughter and Harper Collins for an ARC in return for an honest review.

I did not realise first of all that this is a series but as I like Karin Slaughter ‘s writing I decided to give it a go and I was not disappointed. I did not feel that I missed out reading this out of sequence but I do so need to read them in order now. Will and Sara are on their honeymoon and there is a murder. Will particularly cannot let that go and so between the two of them they decide to investigate but need help from their Atlanta team. Honeymoon now put on hold. While waiting for the team a storm comes in and makes the journey virtually impossible but eventually they arrive and the investigation begins. . The person who was murdered is the resort manager Mercy McAlpine. The visitors at the resort have seen arguments between the family especially as her father planned to sell the resort which Mercy was totally against. Mercy is married to Dave who is a violent man and abuses Mercy. Her father is also violent although now confined to a wheelchair. Her mother has never been a true mother to Mercy or her brother but seems to take over the responsibility for Jon and is also favouring Dave which causes friction. As the investigation continues there are several possible murderers and then someone else dies which puts their possibilities into a quandary. The book continues at a fast pace and it was a great read. The ending was not as expected although towards the end I did wonder.

While After That Night revisited Sara’s past, This is Why We Lied uses someone from Will’s past as a springboard into the story. Any Karin Slaughter book comes with trigger warnings, this time for domestic violence, mentions of rape, and child abuse.

The title refers to multiple examples of characters lying for a reason, but primarily Will and Sara try and hide the jobs. People don’t like law enforcement, and Sara didn’t want to be asked about medical issues all week long. Turns out exactly what this place needs is an investigator and a doctor.

I was pretty excited to see the latest Will Trent book was also a closed circle mystery. Faith repeatedly calls it a locked-room mystery (she was excited too, despite getting the subgenre wrong), but there’s no puzzle in how the murder was done. The mystery is which one of the people in the remote holiday camp did it.

The ex-husband is the obvious choice of suspect, especially with the history of domestic violence. Will knows Dave from the children’s home, knows what sort of person he is. Will is of course, ready to arrest Dave immediately. For about half the book, the assumption is that Dave did it, but as readers we are primed to know this is far too obvious. Karin wouldn’t give us the answer from the very beginning, would she?

Poor Mercy. If her family were to be believed, she was an awful person, but Sara sees straight through that in the small amount of time they spend together. She was a victim even before she was murdered, and as the investigation continues, you learn more about her and how hard her life has been under a controlling family. First her parents, then her husband.

Karin has delivered another page turning mystery featuring characters I care about. I always find it hard to recommend this series from the start, because it can be shocking and gruesome at times, but it’s one of my favourite mystery series to keep up with.

This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter is another superb, fast-paced, not-for-the-faint-hearted thriller that confirms Slaughter as a must-read author.

Will Trent and Sarah Linton stop off for a few days at a luxury mountain retreat before continuing with their honeymoon but end up staying longer than anticipated following an encounter with a long-forgotten childhood friend of Will and the untimely death of one of the staff.

This becomes a classic locked room mystery that Will must solve with his colleagues when the mountain resort becomes cut off due to a storm. A good number of suspects become apparent after Will sees the reaction of the McAlpine family who have run the lodge for generations and the guests who seem to be less than truthful.

Slaughter is a master story teller and this one is just as good as her previous books.

This is only the second Will Trent and Sara Linton book I've read and I was excited to read it as I'd really enjoyed the last one. However, I have to say I found the beginning of this one rather sluggish. Will and Sara are on their honeymoon and Will has chosen a remote lodge complex run by the McAlphine family.
The begins with them hiking into the setting and then a count down to a murder of one of the family. It is only after this as Will and Sara start to investigate that I found the pace picked up and as the murder is investigated and the team are thwarted at every turn by a new piece of evidence coming to light the read became very much more interesting.
The McAlphine's turn out to be a toxic family - not one of them appears to be normal in any sense of the word - they all have secrets and they are all rivals with each other. Because of the remoteness of the lodges and a storm that blows through and cuts off the road we know the murderer has to be either one of the family or one of the eight guests staying there. As soon as Will, and his colleague Faith, who is a wonderfully dry character, think they've got someone in the frame for it,
The story covers some unpleasant cases of abuse, along with various illegal activities, along with one of the most disagreeable families I can imagine. Clever plotting and some good characterisation though, keep the reader going.
With thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for an early copy in return for an honest review.

EXCERPT: As far as he knew, there were only two photographs that documented the seventeen years of his mother's short life. One was a mugshot from an arrest that had taken place a year before Will was born. The other was taken by the medical examiner who had performed her autopsy. Polaroid. Faded. The waxy blue of his mother's skin was the same color as the dead woman lying twenty feet away.

ABOUT 'THIS IS WHY WE LIED': One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer?
Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a secluded mountain getaway, it’s the height of escapist luxury living.

Except that everyone here is lying. Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves.

Then one night, Mercy McAlpine – until now the good daughter – threatens to expose everybody's secrets. Just hours later, Mercy is dead.

In an area this remote, it’s easy to get away with murder. But Will Trent and Sara Linton – investigator and medical examiner for the GBI – are here on their honeymoon.

And now, with the killer poised to strike again, the holiday of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…

MY THOUGHTS: I am so very grateful that I was not born into the McAlpine family! Mercy, Mercy, Mercy . . . why did you stay?

They would have to take the cake as far as being the most manipulative, cruel and abusive family I have ever read about. So, if you are susceptible to triggers, stay well away from this one. It contains almost every trigger under the sun. Every member of this family is absolutely despicable. They are cold and unfeeling. They lie. They manipulate. They abuse. They kill. This is such normal behavior for them and so well written that Will and Sara's honeymoon behavior seems unnatural and gross in comparison.

This is Why We Lied is a fast-paced locked-room murder mystery. Set in an isolated location where, other than an unsealed service road, hiking in is the only access option, all the suspects are trapped by a severe storm which washes out access.

It seems that almost everyone - not just the family! - has some sort of motive to kill Mercy and all are plausible. Several times I thought I had it figured out, but that was just Ms Slaughter playing with me. The final reveal shocked me to the core!

May Mercy rest in peace - it will be the only peace she has ever had.

⭐⭐⭐.8

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THE AUTHOR: Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Harper Collins UK, Harper Fiction, for providing a digital ARC of This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter in return for my honest review. This is the next instalment in the Will Trent and Sara Linton series although you can read this as a standalone I would highly recommend reading all the books in this series you defiantly won’t be disappointed.
I was so excited to read this as I love all of Karin Slaughters books and this one did not disappoint.
While on their honeymoon Will and Sara find themselves investigating a murder, there are lots of really interesting characters, a few red herrings and plot twists, this is a well thought out closed room thriller.

Thanks for the ARC copy. Another fantastic installment in the Will Trent series.

Will and Sara have finally got married and found the happiness we’ve all been routing for for them. However even they can’t get away with a romantic honeymoon on a mountain getaway. The strange McAlpine family own the retreat and the amount of secrets they hold just keep coming as one of them is murdered. Not one to let justice go unserved Will can’t rest until , with the help of Sara Faith and Amanda, the murderer is arrested.

This one took a while for me to get into if I’m honest but once it did it was non stop. If, like me, you’ve read and loved this series this is another 5 star addition to the series and I can’t wait for the next.

This books is an incredible thriller that’s perfect for summer reading. It follows Willl and Sara as they start their honeymoon well but it turns into a murder investigation. Who is involved? The motives soon become clear and this is the best thriller I’ve read in a long time!

#ThisIsWhyWeLied #NetGalley I love this series and this book did not dissappoint. It had me hooked from the very first chapter. Although part of a series, it can be read as a stand alone but I think the reader would get more enjoyment knowing more of the back stories of Will, Sara, Amanda, Faith etc. This book had so much going on and so many twists and turns that it kept me turning the pages VERY late into the night!! I can't wait for the next installment in this series. A very well deserved 5 stars!

This was a little slower paced than I’d have liked and I felt like there was a lot going on aside from the whodunnit - maybe this is part of the series, I’m coming in on book12 but I felt it took away from the flow a bit. It was dark and I liked the plot but the reveal felt a little flat and overall it felt like a longer than necessary read unfortunately!

This is a typical Will Trent book with a locked room twist and I loved it!
Will and Sara have gone to the mountains for a getaway. This cabin resort has been in the McAlpine family for generations with Mercy McAlpine taking the reins after her fathers accident. Mercy has worked hard to turn her life around after years of abuse, drugs and alcohol. She just wants the best for her son.
On the first night, Will discovers Mercy in the water with multiple stab wounds. Most of the people there have a motive - so who killed Mercy?

A locked room mystery by one of my favourite authors in my favourite book series… yes please! I have been a fan of Slaughter for years now so I know what to expect. The start of the book is slower paced but this is to set the scene and get to know the other characters. But the pace does pick up and boy, is it a whirlwind of twists and she keeps you guessing until near the end as to who killed Mercy.
Her family are toxic, full of secrets and betrayal, and you can’t help but sympathise with Mercy and her life choices. The inclusion of Mercy’s letters to her son broke my heart and my emotions swayed between anger and disgust for her family, sadness for how some of the characters grew up and of course, love for Will and Sara.

Oooh, I’ve missed Will and Sara - Will Trent is definitely one of my all time favourite leading men. And I mean, what’s a honeymoon without at least one dead body?

Ms Slaughter, as always you have played it perfectly, This is Why We Lied is a perfect blend of taught writing, great characters, super twisty plot and oodles of heart.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing an advanced book and audiobook in exchange for an honest review. It is the best way to immerse yourself in a book to be able to read and listen to it, the narration is excellent and breathes new life into the experience. Highly recommended.