Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel - Shari Lapena - 2023

 


Not academic and not what I typically read, but I am going to try the bethel park book club and this is the book up for discussion. Far better than any suspense thriller that I could write, but the plot still has some holes. In any case the book discussion should be funny (who goes to book clubs? retired people? loljaja).

page it for a rainy day 

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