Lying Next to Me

No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing.

Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to unplug--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears.

In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. Unfortunately, beyond what they've heard in the news, they're in the dark when it comes to Sophie's disappearance. For Adam, at least there's comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. She'll do everything she can to help. She must.

But as Adam's paranoia about his missing wife escalates, Lee puts together the pieces of a puzzle. The lives of the two couples are converging in unpredictable ways, and the picture is unsettling. Lee suspects that not everyone is telling the truth about what they know--or they have yet to reveal all the lies they've hidden from the strangers they married.

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396 pages

Average rating: 7.45

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SummerC78
Mar 24, 2023
6/10 stars
Lying Next to Me was our May 2022 selection and I was really excited that it was selected. I have read other books by this author and LOVED them and the storyline for this was intriguing! Sadly, this one fell a little flat for me. The story follows Adam and Sophie Warner who are spending the weekend at the lake for Memorial Day weekend in an effort to relax and to heal some of the fractures in their marriage. But, while boating with their daughter, Adam watches helplessly as Sophie is abducted by a stranger. By the time he makes it to shore, Sophie is gone. What follows is a twisty story full of lies and half truths told from multiple characters’ perspectives. Personally, I found the style of the book disjointed and struggled to keep up with which parts were true and which parts were lies. On top of that, all of the characters were intensely unlikeable which meant that ultimately I really didn’t care who took Sophie or what happened to her. Don’t get me wrong, Lying Next to Me is a good book (a solid 3 stars), I think I just hyped it up in my head too much.

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