Everyone is Lying to You
Jo Piazza
Penguin Random House
Lizzie Matthews and Rebecca ‘Bex’ Sommers were the closest of college friends until Bex ghosted Lizzie in San Francisco. Fifteen years later both are married and covertly following each other on social media. Bex has transformed herself into a star influencer, posting about life with her idyllic family on a farm. Lizzie is working at a slowly dying magazine in an industry in deep trouble from the advent of the influencer craze. Late one evening she gets a message from Bex suggesting an exclusive interview with her at a major influencer convention. It’ll be a chance to catch up and make up. Lizzie accepts and flies out, all expenses paid by Bex, to the convention.
They catch up, and everything seems fine, but next day Bex is nowhere to be seen. Her Old Money husband, Grayson, is found brutally murdered and their six children missing.
Lizzie knows Bex would never turn to murder. Detailed to cover the breaking story by her boss, she discovers more about Bex and her circumstances, especially the true nature of her marriage, the ties to local ultra-religious conservatives, and exactly why Bex let her down all those years ago. Lizzie has to navigate the media firestorm, the scandals and lies. It takes a good hard look behind the prairie daydream facade before Lizzie finds the truth—but is it the truth, and is she too late to avert danger?
Everyone is Lying to You is a gripping read about toxic relationships, the warped world of the ultra-religious, and the fickle shallowness of influencing. Jo Piazza ramps up the tension to the sticking point all the way to the shocking twist at the end.
