After all, even best friends keep some things to themselves. If she had been honest, then perhaps her best friend's husband might still be alive today For, of course, it's not the last lie. In fact, it's only the beginning Seven Lies is Jane's confession of the truth--her truth.
Compelling, sophisticated, chilling, it's a seductive, hypnotic pageturner about the tangled, toxic friendships between women, the dark underbelly of obsession and what we stand to lose in the name of love. Why do you believe what you believe? Probably a lot. How could I have believed that? We always wonder why we believed the lie.
But have you ever wondered why you believe the truth? In this incisive and insightful taxonomy of lies and liars, New York Times bestselling author Aja Raden makes the surprising claim that maybe you should.
Buttressed by history, psychology, and science, The Truth About Lies is both an eye-opening primer on con-artistry—from pyramid schemes to shell games, forgery to hoaxes—and also a telescopic view of society through the mechanics of belief: why we lie, why we believe, and how, if at all, the acts differ.
Through wild tales of cons and marks, Raden examines not only how lies actually work, but also why they work, from the evolutionary function of deception to what it reveals about our own. The Truth About Lies will change everything you thought you knew about what you know, and whether you ever really know it. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn't have.
She's been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics student, successful gambler, betting agent, crime scene officer, chemistry graduate, toxicology specialist and one-time scientific advisor to the National Crime Faculty. He is the best there is, but ever since his wife and daughter disappeared he's been hiding away in Scotland, working as a forensics lecturer.
In Manchester, drug addicts are turning up dead and Simms' superior is only too pleased to hand the problem to her. Then a celebrity dies and the media gets interested. Another overdose victim shows up, but this time the woman has been systematically beaten and all identifying features removed.
The evidence doesn't add up; Simms' superiors seem to be obstructing her investigation; and the one person she can't afford to associate with is the one man who can help: Fennimore. At first glance Emma and Lucie seem very different, but they share an unspeakable vice. Beautiful, wealthy Emma appears to have it all with a loving husband and a seemingly successful life, but a restless craving has driven her to foolish actions. Meanwhile, young widow Lucie is struggling to make ends meet while coping with a troubled five-year-old.
When the law catches up with them they soon discover what they have in common: they lie. A lot. Punished with community service, Emma and Lucie form an intense friendship, finding an unlikely third ally in Florrie, a septuagenarian who offers wise words and a shoulder to cry on.
But the lies don't stop. They are hiding their misdemeanours from their loved ones and neither want their shame to come to light. As these unhealthy relationships drive them towards destruction, can they survive the fallout from their deceptions or will their lies destroy everything they love the most?
Revised edition: This edition of Everyday Lies includes editorial revisions. My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. Sometimes I lie.
Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
The Psychology of Deceit looks beyond compulsive liars in our society and considers the ongoing flood of lies that we as human beings experience every day. Who lies? Not just children, politicians, advertisers, and salespeople. Our co-workers lie. Our friends lie. Our relatives lie.
And we lie to them. We learn to lie and to detect deceit as a developmental task. Ford's philosophy is that lying is part of the bridge between one's internal world beliefs, perceptions, expectations, fantasies and one's external world reality. Lies work not only to deceive others but to deceive ourselves. This book shines a spotlight on an understudied phenomenon that affects us all as we raise children, choose a relationship, move forward with a career path, or buy a used car.
A jogger out for an early morning run discovers Nigel Butler, a hairdresser, dead, with a comb and scissors stuck up his ass, upside down in a trashcan in front of the Columbia Library. Jimmy Dugan, the only detective in the small Westchester town of Columbia, goes to the salon where Nigel worked and discovers that one of his former clients - a man he had a disagreement with - is Joey Davies, a "retired" mafioso and Columbia's most prominent citizen. Jimmy's investigation into the murder takes a twisting path with some unusual consequences: his family is threatened; there's a shoot-out in Columbia ; the mob in a neighboring town is torn apart.
Still whoever killed Nigel Butler remains on the loose. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. But who did kill the most hated lobbyist in Alaska? Everyone is lying to him: Candace, the victim's family and co-workers, even Paul's own friends and neighbors. To make matters worse? The murderer isn't done. First in the Talkeetna mystery series. Score: 4. Everybody Lies Author : Melanie A. Smith comes a standalone, steamy bad-boy contemporary romantic suspense novel with a psychic twist.
Foul-mouthed and sexy as sin, this bad boy is about to turn her entire world upside down I'm Frankie Greco. Since I can remember, a little voice inside my head has whispered to me whenever I hear lies.
To distract myself, I focus on my career. I recently bought out what used to be one of the hottest nightclubs in Los Angeles, so it's not hard.
There are few people I let in, and only they know my secret. But romantic relationships never last long.
That is, until I met Julian. I don't know if it was the instant, primal attraction, but I couldn't get a read on this guy to save my life.
And I definitely wasn't prepared for what letting him in would start; the pieces of my past that would come back to haunt me. I didn't think it was possible to surprise a girl who can spot a lie a mile away. I couldn't have been more wrong. Evvy has lived on the island of Great Rock all her life. Every year, after the holidaymakers have departed, storms begin to roll in off the Atlantic and the island returns to the small group of locals who, like her, have decided to make it their home.
But when a body is found on the snow-covered beach it sends shockwaves through this tight-knit community and rattles Evvy to her core. The dead woman had worked on the island the previous summer and it seems strange she would have been visiting so out of season. What drew her back and who was she meeting? When Evvy learns that her partner, Ian, was the last person to see her alive, the shadow of the murder falls far too close to home. As the icy weather closes in, Evvy will discover that no matter how hard you try to hide it, the truth will always find a way out.
A tense and atmospheric emotional drama that will keep you guessing. The characters were raw and real. Beautifully written. If I could give it more stars I would! Individuals do it for personal advantage. Governments do it for political and strategic reasons. The exchange program turns out to be a waste of time, but then Charles receives a discreet offer from an NKVD official.
He claims to have information about NKVD penetrations within a secret American weapons program called the Manhattan Project, which is supposedly developing something called an atomic bomb. In return, the Russian wants to be smuggled to America to begin a new life.
His life is also complicated by his growing fondness for an attractive female employee at the British embassy in Moscow, efforts by various Russian informants around him, and the harsh Russian winter. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche. Everybody Lies offers fascinating,.
By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information? From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable. Short-link Link Embed. Share from cover. Share from page:. More magazines by this user.
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