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The Lying Game #5: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die

by Sara Shepard

A twin’s investigation deepens

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    Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series

    Sara Shepard is described as the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series; this is...

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A twin’s investigation deepens

In this fifth installment of The Lying Game, Emma continues investigating Sutton’s murder while passing as her dead twin in Sutton’s Tucson life. The return of their birth mother, Becky, draws the family’s hidden history into the mystery, and Emma must weigh what she learns about Becky against the secrets she uncovers about Sutton. The setup links the murder investigation to questions of identity, family loyalties, and the risks of sustaining an impersonation. Romantic tension also enters the picture as Emma’s feelings for Ethan meet her attraction to Sutton’s former flame, Thayer. The book carries forward the series’ central mystery while adding new complications around the Mercer family.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For teens and young adults interested in suspenseful mysteries.
  • For readers who enjoy stories about twins, concealed identities, and family secrets.
  • For readers following the ongoing Lying Game series.

Themes

Murder mysteryTwin identity and impersonationFamily secretsTrust and loyaltyRomantic entanglements

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Book overview

The search for Sutton's killer continues in this fifth title in the suspenseful and twisted Lying Game series by Sara Shepard, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series.

Ever since Sutton Mercer's murderer tricked her long-lost twin, Emma, into coming to Tucson, Emma has been trying to solve the mystery of Sutton's death. And now someone else is back in town--Becky, Sutton and Emma's birth mother.

As Emma gets closer to discovering what exactly happened the night Sutton was killed, she learns that Becky isn't all that she seems. Turns out Sutton wasn't the only Mercer girl with dark secrets. . . .

 

  • A High-Stakes Impersonation: Emma must navigate Sutton's privileged and dangerous world, where one wrong move could expose her secret--and make her the killer's next target.
  • Psychological Suspense: Their birth mother, Becky, is back, but her erratic behavior and dark past make her the prime suspect. Can Emma trust the woman who abandoned her, or is she playing a deadly game?
  • A Complicated Love Triangle: While pretending to be Sutton, Emma finds herself torn between her own feelings for the intense Ethan and the undeniable pull of Sutton's old flame, the charming Thayer Vega.
  • Long-Lost Twin Mystery: The deeper Emma digs, the more she realizes Sutton wasn't the girl everyone thought she was. Solving this murder means unraveling the lies of the sister she never knew.
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