Such Charming Liars

Kat has only ever really had her mother. Jamie raised her on the move, and the one exception was a marriage so short it lasted just forty-eight hours, long enough to give Kat a stepbrother named Liam. The divorce that ended it was spectacular, and the two stepsiblings have not spoken since.

Jamie is a jewel thief who says she wants to go straight, but first there is one more job: a birthday weekend at the estate of billionaire Ross Sutherland. Kat has found a way to come along. What she hasn't counted on is who else will be on the guest list. Liam turns up with his father, a career scammer who has set his sights on Ross's youngest daughter, and they are the last people Kat wants to see.

With two sets of con artists under one roof, trouble was always likely. Then a member of the Sutherland family dies, and Kat and Liam realize someone may be coming for them next. Cut off from everyone else at the compound, they have only each other to lean on.

But Kat and Liam were both brought up by liars, and neither has ever found it hard to deceive someone. Whether they can believe each other is another matter. Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying, builds a twisty thriller around that question.