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Narrated by:
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Skyler Gallun
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Victoria Villarreal
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By:
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Karen M. McManus
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For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.
Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn’t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father—a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter.
Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might actually be in the killer’s crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can’t trust anyone—except each other.
Or can they? Because if there’s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it’s how to lie. They learned from the best.©2024 Karen M. McManus (P)2024 Listening Library
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The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist. With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and that’s how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter. It’s easy enough, giving tours. Low risk of fire. High chance of getting bored talking about stained glass and nut cutlets and Prohibition.
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- By Amazon Customer on 10-15-24
By: Maureen Johnson
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The Cousins
- By: Karen M. McManus
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer, Kate Reinders, David Garelik, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they've never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they're surprised...and curious.
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Not worth the time
- By JC Carey on 12-15-20
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Two Sides to Every Murder
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Most people’s births aren’t immortalized in a police report—but Olivia was born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders. Seventeen years later, Olivia’s life looks pretty perfect . . . until she discovers the man she calls dad is not her biological father. Now she wants answers about her bloodline, and the only place she knows to look is Camp Lost Lake. Most people don’t spend their formative years on the run with an alleged murderer—but Reagan did. In the court of public opinion, her mom was found guilty of the deaths at Camp Lost Lake, and both of them have been in hiding ever since.
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Flawed but enjoyable
- By Pink Amy on 06-28-24
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The Summer She Went Missing
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Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy days sunning at the waterfalls and nights partying at the sprawling houses of the rich families who vacation there. The Covingtons are one of these families, and beautiful, brilliant Audrey Covington is Paige's best friend. And last year, when Audrey's crush-worthy brother Dylan finally started noticing Paige, she was sure it would be the best summer ever.
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The narrator is HORRID
- By Anon on 12-17-24
By: Chelsea Ichaso
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price
- By: Holly Jackson
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Eighteen-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on. But the case is dredged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.
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- By Christy Lawrence on 04-19-24
By: Holly Jackson
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Pretty Dead Queens
- By: Alexa Donne
- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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After the death of her mom (screw cancer), seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town . . . until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen.
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Best YA I've Read in a While
- By Lindsey Albright on 10-24-22
By: Alexa Donne
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The Legacies
- By: Jessica Goodman
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Kristen Sieh, Phoebe Strole, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City is more than an honor. It gives you a lifetime of access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors and guaranteed safety and security. So it’s not surprising when Excelsior Prep seniors Bernie Kaplan, Isobel Rothcroft, and Skyler Hawkins are nominated as Legacies; their family pedigrees have assured their membership since birth—even if they're all keeping secrets that could destroy their reputations. But scholarship kid from Queens Tori Tasso? She’s a surprise nominee.
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Exciting look into a gossip girl like world…
- By Jeremy on 03-28-24
By: Jessica Goodman
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Such Charming Liars (German edition)
- By: Karen M. McManus
- Narrated by: Lydia Herms, Alexander Pensel
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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Ihr ganzes Leben lang waren es nur Kat und ihre Mutter Jamie – mit Ausnahme der achtundvierzig Stunden, in denen Jamie verheiratet war und Kat einen Stiefbruder hatte, Liam. Doch dieses kurze Abenteuer endete mit einer epischen Trennung. Kat und Liam haben sich seitdem weder gesehen noch miteinander gesprochen. Jahre später ist Jamie eine Juwelendiebin und hat einen Auftrag, der sie auf die Geburtstagsfeier des Milliardärs Ross Sutherland führt.
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The Counselors
- By: Jessica Goodman
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She’s always had a special connection to the place, even before she was old enough to attend. The camp is the lifeline of Roxwood, the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs, money and prestige to the region. Few Roxwood locals, though, get to reap the rewards of living so close to the glam summer that camp, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents. Goldie's one of them.
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Good summer read
- By Brandi Whitt on 08-12-22
By: Jessica Goodman
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The Good Girls
- By: Claire Eliza Bartlett
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Tara Sands, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in America, Jefferson-Lorne High contains all of the above. After the shocking murder of senior Emma Baines, three of her classmates are at the top of the suspect list: Claude, the notorious partier; Avery, the head cheerleader; and Gwen, the would-be valedictorian. But appearances are never what they seem. And the truth behind what really happened to Emma may just be lying in plain sight. As long buried secrets come to light, the clock is ticking to find Emma's killer.
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Unexpected
- By AJB on 10-03-22
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Silent Sister
- By: Megan Davidhizar
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Two sisters went missing on their class trip—Grace, the outgoing athlete who is friends with just about everyone, and Maddy, the wallflower wilting in her sister’s shadow who'd rather absorb herself in her journal than talk to her classmates. But when Grace is found—injured, with no memory of what happened—everybody thinks she’s lying. It’s hard not to look guilty with Maddy’s blood on her clothes. Desperate to save her sister—and prove her own innocence—Grace must piece together what happened on that school trip.
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Wow
- By Mike Thompson on 11-02-24
By: Megan Davidhizar
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Four Found Dead
- By: Natalie D. Richards
- Narrated by: Rebecca Quinn Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Tonight, Riverview Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, a shift that quickly takes a dark turn. First a stranger arrives with a chilling accusation. Then the power goes out and their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe, where the crew's phones are locked each shift. The crew's tension turns to terror when Jo discovers the dead body of one of her co-workers.
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Well balanced characters
- By tcsalmon on 03-22-24
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49 Miles Alone
- By: Natalie D. Richards
- Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal, Laura Knight Keating, Suzy Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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A year ago, Katie and her cousin Aster survived a night that left their world and easy friendship fractured. Desperate to heal and leave the past behind them, they tackle four days of hiking in the Utah backcountry. But the desert they’ve loved for years has tricks up its sleeve.
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The One That Got Away with Murder
- By: Trish Lundy
- Narrated by: Helen Laser, Joshua Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count—the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they’ll never be found guilty of any wrongdoing, even if all of Happy Valley believes they're behind the deaths of their ex-girlfriends. First there was soccer star Victoria Moreno, Robbie’s ex, who mysteriously drowned at the family lake house. Then, a year later, Trevor’s girlfriend died of a suspicious overdose.
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- By Lily B on 11-21-24
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- Tedd R. Ellils
- 10-22-24
Different but AWESOME!!
I was a little apprehensive at first since this plot deviates from what McManus usually puts out (new setting and new dynamics). I’m a big fan so I decided to listen anyways and boy am i glad I did! The character relationships were so well written and I could see the world in my mind really well. It was so refreshing to have a main character who wasn’t focused on boy problems in this genre of media. I liked how the love interest was just a subplot and not the most important thing in the main characters’ relationships! Another great hit from Karen M McManus!!!!!!!
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- mathew
- 08-22-24
Karen always keeps me entertained!
Another great story. Even though I was a little iffy on Jaimie being asleep for so much of it I get why it needed to happen. Great voice acting as well (although cats voice actor wasn’t great at doing Augustus voice) I hope I don’t have to wait too long for another McManus book
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- Zachary
- 08-26-24
It’s like if Agatha Christie wrote “The Parent Trap”
Karen M McManus delivers yet another banger story of mystery and thrills, something familiar but fresh with her own unique perspective.
It’s another murder mystery with a McGuffin involved: a shiny ruby necklace that is the center of a heist. Shortly after I received this book, I was very lucky to see the author in person and hear her talk a little bit about the book and its inspirations, especially for some of the characters and setting. I was very pleased to know that she got this idea from watching “The Parent Trap” (1997 version), because it’s exactly what this story reminded me of: Two siblings from separate parents who’ve unexpected reunited.
The two siblings and question are Kat and Liam. The book is narrated from both their perspectives; a formula I love already, but what’s interesting and fresh about this take is that the two are siblings in a way. Usually, the two characters whose perspectives are dual in the book are love interests, but not here. Liam and Kat both have a single parent that was married to each other for a brief moment; they divorced after the dad left the two kids as very young children alone to wander the streets of Las Vegas. Neither Liam or Kat have seen or spoken to each other since then, and it’s not until a faithful encounter en route to a fancy birthday party for the head of the wealthy Sutherland clan do the two halves of this broken family reunite. However, it’s within Liam’s first chapter that he establishes that he is gay. This is the authors way of letting us know that the boy and girl, whose perspectives we will be reading from, will not be getting together, as they are essentially rebuilding their relationship as brother and sister. I honestly love that. To see a male and female character come together as siblings instead of romantic partners, especially in a young adult novel, it’s so rare and so fresh to see.
Another thing I found interesting was that both Liam and Kat refer to their respective single parent by their first names, but for different reasons. Kat calls her mom “Jamie” because Jamie has been more of an older sister to her, and Liam calls his dad “Luke” because Lucas has always been a distant scumbag of a father to him, and thus he feels no connection. Of course, I found out rather quickly that the author made this choice so that we as the readers/listeners can I identify the parents as individual characters rather than just “the mom and the dad”.
Even though it technically is a young adult novel, it really is a story for all ages. Of course, keep in mind that the main characters had to have been born in the late 2000’s, so their perspectives can remind us millennials of how old we are today with some passing comments (especially by Kat, who refers to a Phineas and Ferb sweatshirt as “ancient”), the book is so mature and it’s writing and themes, You may even be damned to think of the target audience being 12 and 13 year olds.
This book is definitely different from Karen M. McManus’s first big thriller, “One of Us is Lying”. When I met Ms. McManus shortly after this book’s launch, she said that she took some notes from the production of “One of Us is Lying”’s TV show adaptation, with how much faster the story moved in that medium, and she wanted this story to move at that sort of pace. I can definitely see it with this book. It certainly does move a lot faster, although there were times I do wish it could’ve moved even quicker than it did, I have to say that every time I thought things were slowing down too much quickly found ways to pick up the interest again.
I will say that there may have been a little too many characters, and while I think there was potentially to set any one of them up as culprits for the murder and theft in question, very little suspicion was applied to any of them. There was room for more red herrings, if that makes sense. I also felt like the story, characters, and mystery elements were a little bit all over the place, in fact there were a couple of questions I have about how this or that connected. The book also ended a little abruptly, not all the resolution I would’ve hoped for, but overall I was very pleased with the latest entry to McManus’s bibliography.
I definitely found it engaging and always wondering what happens next. The book delivers what it promises, and true to the author spirit, it always has you asking questions.
I have to admit, I’m usually hesitant to read another book from an author who’s written a book I like (I read “One of Us is Lying” in 2020 and absolutely adored it), because I tend to be under the impression that it’s specifically that story and characters that engage me, and that the other works just aren’t going to be the same. However, reading this book I know that it’s not just the one story. While I don’t think this book is AS good as One of Us is Lying, The book has definitely showed me that it is indeed the author herself who has me hooked. So you can bet that I will definitely be looking into her other published titles and eagerly awaiting for her next.
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- Pink Amy
- 08-03-24
Pitch perfect
4.5 STARS
Karen McManus is a young adult thriller powerhouse. I don’t think she’s ever written a book I didn’t like.
In SUCH CHARMING LIARS, Kat’s mother, Jamie is a con artist. She wants out the life and agrees to do one last job. Unbeknownst to her, Kat tags along to the job, working a birthday celebration in order to replace an expensive necklace with a forgery. At the compound where the party is to be held, the pair run into Luke, the man Jamie was married to for 48 hours in Vegas and his son Liam. Kat and Liam remember a six hour odyssey in Vegas where the then four and five year olds were lost in town. It turns out Luke is also a grifter with Liam attempting to thwart his every attempt.
At first I thought, Liam and Kat would get together, because this is YA, but McManus threw me a curve ball making Liam gay. I like reading opposite sex friendships that don’t turn into romance (this isn’t a spoiler).
I truly despised Jamie. Being a once-abused woman doesn’t justify how horribly she raised Kat. One example is upon encountering Luke, Kat tells him off. While I realize teenagers aren’t always polite, I’ve never met a teenager whose parent would condone telling off an adult, even if he was an asshole. For Kat to believe this was okay, Jamie had to have no standards for behavior. Other than this pet peeve, I loved how McManus developed the characters with unique personalities and attributes.
SUCH CHARMING LIARS will definitely be a reread for me.
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- Cynthia Woodward
- 09-02-24
Another awesome book
I enjoyed this new book! Great story line with a lot of strong characters. A must read.
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- Kathleen Baker
- 08-07-24
Great story
Great plot, love the different voices, it made the story easy to follow. The story had a lot of nail biting situations for characters to figure out how to escape.
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- Orrin Forsyth
- 10-14-24
I liked it a ton
Good book for me I liked it a lot I like it because of the genree
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- Kim
- 12-01-24
Loved the twists
Needed a bit more of Liam’s POV. Very good performances from the voice actors. Liked the story plot a lot.
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- Megan M.
- 08-14-24
Possibly over hyped
This book should in my option fall under fiction and young adult.
The story is told between two teenage step siblings. Their choices are questionable as an adult reader.
I think this book would do better if categorized differently.
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- Rachel
- 08-05-24
I don't know why I keep trying
I think I read one good book by this author, Maybe Two.
i don't know what it is ( Mayne the book covers make the story look so good) but as usual I mean o. chapter 12 and still boring as hell.
we should be able to exchange a title if we are monthly subscribers.
this has been a waste.
having such a hard time getting into this story as usual bu anything From thus author.
again I don't know why I try
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