Liar’s Beach: The unputdownable thriller of the summer (Liar’s Beach, 1)
£5.70£8.50 (-33%)
‘Fast-paced and will have you hooked. You’re in for a killer summer.’ Metro
WE WERE LIARS meets GOSSIP GIRL – this YA thriller with a splash of dark academia is full of secrets, lies, privileged teens and beach parties. The perfect summer read.
A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they’ll never forget . . .
Linden has always felt like an outsider and spending the summer at his best friend’s vacation house, surrounded by money and privilege is doing nothing to lessen his imposter syndrome. But he soon has bigger concerns than fitting in – there’s a body in the pool and everyone’s a suspect – including him.
Readers LOVE Liar’s Beach:
An addictive addition to the thriller genre
If you’re looking for a quick, engrossing YA thriller, look no further than Liar’s Beach. Fingers crossed for more!
A wonderful and beautifully written YA book, in the modern One of Us Is Lying vein. I really loved this book
An entertaining read throughout and a fun one to fly through in one sitting
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by Tree Hugger
I enjoyed this book. A tad predictable but a good plot nonetheless. Very easy read. My 13y old has just started it after me saying how much I enjoyed it.
by Tree Hugger
My 14 year old daughter took this on our recent holiday and found it an ideal beach read.
A relatively quick read, it is typical of this genre and not overly new in the way of revelations, but my diaghter read it all the way through.
Ideal for Holly Jackson fans, this is great for the teenage/YA market.
by ArtichokesForAll
This is an exciting and entertaining story, which our son likes a lot. He couldn’t put it down. Four stars.
by SweetChild
Liar’s Beach is an enjoyable YA thriller set in Martha’s Vineyard with a colourful cast of privileged characters.
Their wealth and entitlement doesn’t make the characters very lovable so when a body is found in the pool, it really could have been any one of them. The concept of a body in the pool isn’t as gripping as you would imagine, but I don’t want to say anything more about it as it could spoil the story for others.
The main character Linden is perhaps the most likeable character as he’s not rich and he’s like a fish out of water being played with by the elite sharks. It was nice for Linden to see a familiar face in the form of Holiday, the daughter of his mother’s employer. I loved the dynamic between Linden and Holiday and how they joined forces to crack the mystery of the body in the pool.
Well written and entertaining, Liar’s Beach would be a good poolside read for teens this summer.
by E
Found this really enjoyable if a little predictable. The characters are both easy to hate and easy to love. Preppy wealthy kids and drama when a body is found in the pool. It’s fun and easy to read in the garden or by the pool in summer.
by Peanut
This made for good pool reading for me when I took it to Greece on holiday last month. A good story line, although as I said, maybe a little predictable?
But a fair price for a thriller that you can get your teeth into and pass away some hours.
by Emily Thompson
Book arrive quite quickly and was in good condition. Much cheaper than original price; I will be buying good as new books for the foreseeable. This seller is reputable and if they do come up again as an option, I will use them 🙂
by Michelle Ryles
A young adult mystery novel, Liar’s Beach is an enjoyable and immersive enough read, set in the present day, a tale of several privileged young people on their summer holidays in Martha’s Vineyard in the USA. Narrated in the first person by main character Michael Linden, who has hidden aspects of his true self and life in order to, as he sees it, fit in with these rich friends. He’s on a scholarship to an exclusive school where he is roommates with Jasper Kendrick, and it’s Jasper’s family’s holiday home where they the majority of the novel takes place. An old friend of Michael’s is also around and although it’s an uncomfortable reunion in many ways, having fallen out of touch, they team up to try and solve the mystery when a body is found in the Kendrick’s pool.
It has some interesting things to say about assumptions and who we think people are and who we want them to be, expectations, preconceptions, and re-examining these. Also it portrays the pressures on terms to fit in. Few if any of the characters are likeable, which I don’t mind so much, but it meant I wasn’t particularly rooting for anyone. And most of them are very privileged indeed. There’s a fair amount of romantic angst going on for Michael so bear that in mind when deciding if that’s what you’d like to read about.
It’s an easy enough read, but I think I definitely wanted something more from it, just a bit more urgency perhaps, more drama, and even though it was a good length and not overly long as so many novels can be these days, it still took longer to read than I thought it would.