Book Review - Truth Truth Lie by Claire McGowan - #HolidayReading Cruise

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Title: Truth Truth Lie

Author: Claire McGowan

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Publication Date: 21st May 2024

Rating: 5 Stars

Everyone here has killed someone.

There is no way off this island.

You will all either kill or be killed here.

One of these statements is a lie. But which one?

Amira’s less than thrilled to be spending the weekend with her husband’s university friends. Two of them are hosting a joint fortieth on a private Scottish island, with vintage champagne, expensive gifts, and soaks in the wood-fired hot tub. Despite the luxury, Amira knows she’s going to feel left out, not to mention freezing cold and cut off.

When they decide to play ‘two truths and a lie’, anonymously posting three statements about themselves into a box, years of resentment start bubbling to the surface. And then an extra slip of paper emerges, scrawled with three chilling threats. Who wrote it? And are two of the statements really true—have they all been responsible for someone’s death?

With no phone reception and no way off the island, the group are trapped here until the end of the weekend. And as tension rises and secrets are spilled, they can’t shake the feeling that they’re not the only ones here. Is someone watching them? Someone who wants them dead? Or is it one of them who has murder in mind?

I was hooked on this story, as we try to work out just what is going on when a game of two truths and a lie gives a rather unsettling result. 

From there we get to see a group implode on itself, and no one is safe. 

This is a group of friends on a remote Scottish Island that is very hard to get to. We get chapters from various characters' points of view, and it really does make for compelling reading. 

I really wasn't sure who was behind everything, and loved discovering things at the same time as everyone in the book.  It's an addictive book that  I couldn't get enough of. 

Slightly claustrophobic, it feels like it is kill or be killed, but who can you trust to keep you safe. And just what are you capable of when pushed to extremes. 

This was certainly a weekend away to remember for all of the wrong reasons.  Which made it into a fabulous story for the reader. 

Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.