First Lie Wins

Evie Porter is exactly who she says she is, provided nobody checks, and Ashley Elston builds a thriller out of how long that can hold. First Lie Wins follows a woman who takes on identities supplied by an employer she has never met, moving from assignment to assignment without leaving anything of herself behind. The current job is different: the relationships have become real, and someone appears to be working against her with information she cannot account for. Elston alternates present-day tension with the history of how Evie was recruited, and the plot turns on who controls the story rather than on violence. A reader's summary: • A con-artist thriller told from the point of view of the deceiver • Dual timeline covering the current job and the recruitment behind it • Suspense built on identity, surveillance and control of information • Suited to readers of psychological thrillers with unreliable narrators For thriller readers and book clubs looking for a discussion title. Published by Headline Books and available through Boipoka.