The Lying Game by Ruth Ware.

 The Lying Game by Ruth Ware. Scout Press (Simon & Schuster), 2017. Adult fiction.


Friends who were students at Salten, an English boarding school, are drawn back together by a message from one of their group. The girls had grown up lying to teachers and other students. But, did they lie to themselves, too? A human bones have just been discovered and perhaps the secrets the girls thought hidden have come back to haunt them.


The young women are well described and easy to keep straight. Their present lives are believable. The eerie atmosphere of the waters and cliffs near the English channel provide a compelling setting. Ware, author of two other thrillers, In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10  is definitely on top of her game.