Count My Lies

Sophie Stava

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Hardback

Forthcoming
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English

Century
22 May 2025

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense

I'm your friend. But can you trust me? A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller coming to you in 2025.

Sloane Caraway is a liar.

They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting.

So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and helps him pull a bee sting from his daughter's foot.

With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart who have everything- a beautiful brownstone house, a daughter in private nursery school, and long summers on an idyllic island just off the coast of New York.

Sloane wants to be just like them. She wants their life and she's prepared to lie about almost everything to get it.

But Sloane isn't the only one lying, and soon she begins to realise that all that's picture-perfect about her employers hides a much more dangerous truth . . .

'This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page. I just had to keep reading!' Liane Moriarty

'From the first page until the final twist, Count My Lies is utterly gripping and unputdownable' Amy Tintera

'Readers will find themselves racing through the final, jaw-dropping pages, desperate to gather every last clue of this astonishing web of lies' Katy Hays

'Get ready for a rollercoaster of twists' Liv Constantine

'Sharp, engaging, and unputdownable. Sophie Stava masterfully weaves suspense, deception, and heart into a brilliant, twisty thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page. I devoured this in one day!' Trisha Sahklecha

By: Sophie Stava
Imprint: Century
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 542g
ISBN: 9781529943603
ISBN 10: 1529943604
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sophie has loved to read as long as she can remember. Her passion for reading lead her to study English Literature at University of California Santa Barbara, where received her B.A. She spent a number of years as (among other things) an event planner, executive recruiter, and ghostwriter before pursuing her own writing. She currently resides in Southern California with her family. When she isn't writing, you'll find her reading, acting as personal assistant to her children, and travelling. Count My Lies is her debut novel. Instagram- sophiejstava

Reviews for Count My Lies

This compelling, tautly plotted book will appeal not only to lovers of Gone Girl–style tales of suspense but anyone with a taste for smart, well-crafted fiction. A page-turning thrill-ride of a story from a debut novelist * Kirkus Reviews * [A] gripping debut thriller . . . The author has taken on quite a challenge here, and she pulls it off spectacularly. * Booklist * Stava's suspenseful debut strikes all the enticing notes of a captivating psychological drama . . . Count My Lies features a finely crafted, engaging plot laden with thrilling detours, idyllic settings and deeply flawed yet attractive personalities for whom telling the truth is strictly optional. * Shelf Awareness * Devilishly plotted . . . Stava keeps the pages turning. This is good fun. * Publishers Weekly * This twisty debut novel about a young woman named Sloane, a habitual liar who finds work as a nanny for a 'perfect' New York couple, has garnered comparisons to Gone Girl. * The Washington Post *