Such Charming Liars

#NetGalley approved me for another BIG one, y'all! Here's the ever fabulous Karen M. McManus and her latest thriller/mystery/masterpiece "Such Charming Lairs." This debuts July 30, 2024.

["When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal. 

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."]

Intrigue. Romance. Danger. This book had it all. It took me a bit to get pulled-in completely, but when it did? I almost pulled an all-nighter. There were so many twists and turns and secrets and "but what about"s and necklaces (so many necklaces) and close-calls. It was so much and yet, so good!

This is how one of the characters (Augustus) described these two.. Kat: "seems like the kind of chaos I don't have the energy for." And Liam: "is entirely too wholesome for someone like me." And Augustus was not wrong.

Also, I want to protect Augustus. Yes, he's a tad over-the-top and hard-to-read, but he needed protecting as much as Kat and Liam.

Quote of the Day (Augustus//Kat): "'Aren't there laws against that?' // 'Not in Maine,' I pipe up. 'Its a one-party consent state.' Both boys stare at me, and I shrug. 'What? Don't you look up surveillance laws when you visit a new state?' // 'No,' Augustus and Liam say in bemused unison."

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