A Thousand Perfect Lies

Clearing a sister's name takes the heroine of A Thousand Perfect Lies into an elite English boarding school under a name that is not her own. Monica Murphy braids mystery with romance, setting an investigation inside a closed world of privilege where every friendship doubles as a possible source and every source has something to protect. The pacing favours steady revelation: each answer complicates the one before it, while the heroine's feelings for the people around her grow harder to separate from the case. Loyalty, deception and the cost of asking questions run through the whole book, and the turns are left for readers to meet on the page. Reading notes: • A boarding-school setting used as a closed circle of suspects • Assumed identity working as the engine of the plot • Romance that develops under suspicion rather than despite it • Themes of family obligation, trust and consequence Recommended for readers of romantic suspense and boarding-school mysteries, available at Boipoka.