Every Single Lie
"Raw, real, and utterly gripping." - Jennifer Lynn Barnes, New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games
In this gripping YA novel about social media bullying and half-truths, one girl's shocking discovery of a dead baby in her high school locker room rocks an entire community.
Nobody in sixteen-year-old Beckett's life seems to be telling the whole story. Her boyfriend Jake keeps hiding texts, which could mean he's cheating on her. Her father lied about losing his job and so much more before his shocking death. And everyone in school seems to be whispering about her and her family behind her back.
But none of that compares to the day Beckett finds the body of a newborn baby in a gym bag--Jake's gym bag--on the floor of her high school locker room. As word leaks out, rumors that Beckett's the mother take off like wildfire in a town all too ready to believe the worst of her.
Beckett soon finds herself facing threats and accusations both heartbreaking and dangerous. Nobody believes her side of the story, and as the police investigation unfolds, she discovers that everyone has a secret to hide and the truth could alter everything she thought she knew.
A page-turning thriller set in a small Southern community, Every Single Lie is a jaw-dropping, twisty must-read for fans of Sadie.
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Community Reviews
Meet Beckett Bergen: high school junior, amateur lock pick, and finder of a dead baby. Throw in the fact that her mother, Detective Bergen, is assigned to the case, the suspicious mystery texts her boyfriend keeps hiding from her, some Twitter hate from an anonymous account that goes viral, and the mystery of #LullabyDoe's parents, and you've got yourself a real page-turner.
I mean the story was so twisty that I was suspicious of every character: her boyfriend, her estranged best friend that shows back up, her mom, her dad (who died seven months ago), her brother. I was able to figure it out by the end of Chapter 15, but I was also an English teacher for nine years and naturally look for foreshadowing. It didn't slow down my need to get to the end of the book.
This book is masterful at showing how people handle grief differently, and ultimately, that was the biggest piece of this story. And it's my favorite read so far this year.
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