An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller A Best Novel Finalist in the International Thriller Writer Awards A Bookspan International Book of the Month A CBS Best Summer Read A Cosmopolitan Hot Book A New York Post (Page Six) Hottest New Thriller A BookSense Best Book of the Month An Amazon Top Ten Thriller of the Year What if your family was a lie? What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was just a pack of Beautiful Lies? If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life. Instead, she's in the wrong place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that begins with a mysterious package on her doorstep. A package that informs her that her entire world is just an illusion. Forced to question everything she knows about herself, Ridley wanders into dark territory, where everyone is hiding something. Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine.
Instant New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger's second sensational thriller featuring Ridley Jones "bursts from the starting gate and never lets up." ( Booklist , starred review) And it "will force you to stay up past your bedtime, just as you do with the books of James Patterson and Michael Connelly." ( Richmond Times-Dispatch) A Best Book of the Month ( BookSense ) A Doubleday & Literary Guild Book Club Main Selection "Unger's genius is in plotting the story so that the reader never knows what's coming next." ( New York Journal of Books ) In Beautiful Lies, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. Now, she is just trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act--picking up some prints at a photo lab--sends her on a mission to find a ghost from her past. A figure of the same man appears in too many pictures she's taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make identification impossible. But, she is not the only one who wants to know who the man is, and soon finds herself in the middle of a deeper investigation and unsure who to trust. The only thing Ridley knows for sure is that she has to get to the truth about herself and her past if she is ever going to find her way home.