One Perfect Lie

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Lisa Scottoline, internationally bestselling author of KEEP QUIET and EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES, returns with a gripping new tale of family and survival. Sure to keep fans of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN hooked until the last page.

You can't protect your children from everyone...

On the surface, ONE PERFECT LIE tells the tale of the struggling single mother and of her young son, recruited for a scholarship to a college, with a future in major-league baseball.

But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son as he's lured down a darker path by one of his teammates, a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family, whose excellent grades and fun-loving manner conceal his violent criminal plans.

Then a handsome stranger who comes to town and infiltrates the high school, posing as a teacher but with a hidden agenda all his own, and the mother soon finds herself locked in a battle for the life and future of her son.

ONE PERFECT LIE is a riveting and suspenseful family drama, and by the time you close the book, you will realise that nothing was as it seemed at the beginning.Lisa Scottoline, internationally bestselling author of KEEP QUIET and EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES, returns with a gripping new tale of family and survival. Sure to keep fans of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN hooked until the last page.

You can't protect your children from everyone...

On the surface, ONE PERFECT LIE tells the tale of the struggling single mother and of her young son, recruited for a scholarship to a college, with a future in major-league baseball.

But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son as he's lured down a darker path by one of his teammates, a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family, whose excellent grades and fun-loving manner conceal his violent criminal plans.

Then a handsome stranger who comes to town and infiltrates the high school, posing as a teacher but with a hidden agenda all his own, and the mother soon finds herself locked in a battle for the life and future of her son.

ONE PERFECT LIE is a riveting and suspenseful family drama, and by the time you close the book, you will realise that nothing was as it seemed at the beginning.
Lisa Scottoline walks readers into this charged moral dilemma and then takes them on an intense, breathless ride - Jodi Picoult

Honest and hugely emotional - James Patterson

Brilliant and infused with love... I couldn't put it down - Louise Penny

Scottoline rocks! - Nora Roberts

Scottoline is always awesome, but her latest book held me spellbound because she had such an eye for describing complicated family relationships - Janet Evanovich