Liar's Creek: A Novel
From New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winner Matt Goldman comes Liar's Creek, which asks how far we'll go to protect the people we love.
Riverwood, Minnesota is a scenic town threaded with trout streams carving their way through limestone bluffs. But beneath its picturesque facade, danger runs rampant.
Clay Hawkins isn’t a stranger to the secrets of his hometown. After twenty years away, Clay has recently returned home from abroad with his twelve-year-old son, and his relationship with his father, the recently replaced sheriff, is as strained as ever.
But when Clay’s beloved uncle disappears, the three generations of Hawkinses must overturn every stone in Riverwood and confront deep familial wounds to find the one person who brings them together. As danger looms, Clay worries that it might be too late to save his uncle—and that the rest of the family might be next.
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I love small town crime thrillers and mysteries. I always have, even though I was born and raised and lived most of my life in Los Angeles. Having finally relocated to a small, rural town in NoCA two years ago, most days I am truly living with some story of small-town life and its small-town crimes as it were where. Anyway, this story sounded like my kind of story.
The book summary basically just introduces one of the storylines of Clay coming home after 24yrs to the small town of Riverwood, MN after ending his 20yr soccer career, abroad for an Irish team, to a coaching position at his former high school. Clay, now a single father to 12yr old son, Braden, after Braden’s mother (a one-night stand Clay had the year before) abandoned Braden with Clay when Braden was just months old. Clay and his father, Judd, are as estranged as they ever would, since the death of Clay’s mother when he was just a kid. His mother was diagnosed with cancer that was discovered right after she gave birth to Clay, and that Judd always blamed Clay for.
There is the secondary storyline of Clay’s uncle Teddy and Judd’s twin brother suddenly going missing. Teddy is the beloved one of the family, the one that everyone loves and adores and kind of the glue of the family, the one denominator that brings everyone together, even Braden came to adore Uncle Teddy. However, Teddy has always had a bit of a rebel streak in him and it’s not long before Judd and Clay start to wonder what he’s gotten himself into now.
It’s right around the halfway point that a major reveal about why Clay came home adds a bit of intrigue to the story that I’m not going to spoil. The second half begins to reveal a lot more about what’s been going on in Riverwood and all the secrets under the surface. LOVE ZOEY!!! The new, female, Sheriff in Riverwood, who replaced Judd when the city council fired him. Omg, she is hilarious! She adds so much entertainment value to every scene she is in. What a great character!
The character development was well done, especially for characters like Clay, Zoey, and Braden and a few others. The pacing was pretty steady in the first half and picked up a bit in the second half. The storyline was interesting, with its small-town crime thriller and a bit of intrigue. The writing was well done too; I liked a lot of the world building that Goldman provided to make the town of Riverwood and its residents come to life, even the kookie ones. I’m looking at an overall rating of 4.1 that I will be rounding down to a 4star review. I want to thank NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for sending me this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
#NetGalley #MacmillanAudio #LiarsCreek
The book summary basically just introduces one of the storylines of Clay coming home after 24yrs to the small town of Riverwood, MN after ending his 20yr soccer career, abroad for an Irish team, to a coaching position at his former high school. Clay, now a single father to 12yr old son, Braden, after Braden’s mother (a one-night stand Clay had the year before) abandoned Braden with Clay when Braden was just months old. Clay and his father, Judd, are as estranged as they ever would, since the death of Clay’s mother when he was just a kid. His mother was diagnosed with cancer that was discovered right after she gave birth to Clay, and that Judd always blamed Clay for.
There is the secondary storyline of Clay’s uncle Teddy and Judd’s twin brother suddenly going missing. Teddy is the beloved one of the family, the one that everyone loves and adores and kind of the glue of the family, the one denominator that brings everyone together, even Braden came to adore Uncle Teddy. However, Teddy has always had a bit of a rebel streak in him and it’s not long before Judd and Clay start to wonder what he’s gotten himself into now.
It’s right around the halfway point that a major reveal about why Clay came home adds a bit of intrigue to the story that I’m not going to spoil. The second half begins to reveal a lot more about what’s been going on in Riverwood and all the secrets under the surface. LOVE ZOEY!!! The new, female, Sheriff in Riverwood, who replaced Judd when the city council fired him. Omg, she is hilarious! She adds so much entertainment value to every scene she is in. What a great character!
The character development was well done, especially for characters like Clay, Zoey, and Braden and a few others. The pacing was pretty steady in the first half and picked up a bit in the second half. The storyline was interesting, with its small-town crime thriller and a bit of intrigue. The writing was well done too; I liked a lot of the world building that Goldman provided to make the town of Riverwood and its residents come to life, even the kookie ones. I’m looking at an overall rating of 4.1 that I will be rounding down to a 4star review. I want to thank NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for sending me this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
#NetGalley #MacmillanAudio #LiarsCreek
