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Lies: From the author of Netflix hit THE HOLIDAY, a gripping thriller guaranteed to keep you up all night Kindle Edition

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**T.M. LOGAN'S LATEST GRIPPING THRILLER, THE DAUGHTER, IS AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDBACK, EBOOK, AND AUDIO**

The sensational debut page-turner from the master of the up-all-night thriller, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Holiday and The Mother

'A tense and gripping thriller' B A Paris, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
'So gripping I genuinely found it hard to put down' KL Slater, bestselling author of BLINK.

Joe Lynch is just an ordinary happily-married man - until one split-second decision throws his life into crisis.

When Joe sees his wife having a confrontation with family friend Ben, it's the first hint that she's been lying to him - about everything. And when he steps in to protect her, a harmless shove knocks Ben to the ground. And he's not moving...

Gripping, unputdownable and packed with twists and turns from the first page to the very last, this stunning psychological thriller will make you question whether we can ever really trust the ones we love . . .

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"Assured, compelling, and hypnotically readable - with a twist at the end I guarantee you won't see coming" Lee Child

"A compelling, twisty page-turner, and that's the truth" James Swallow, bestselling author of NOMAD

"A terrific page turner, didn't see that twist! A thoroughly enjoyable thriller" Mel Sherrat

"Creepy, creepy, creepy . . . a winner if you like thrillers." Woman's Way

"Outstanding and very well-written debut psychological thriller.The book was so gripping I genuinely found it hard to put down" KL Slater, bestselling author of BLINK

'I can do no better than recommend Lies, a brilliantly plotted psychological thriller by TM Logan, whom I have no doubt is going to be a major exponent of this genre. You will read this fast-paced page turner with mounting dismay. Exceptional, and highly recommended' Alison Weir

"Intense and surreal and utterly amazing . . . that ending just absolutely blew my tiny mind. I didn't see it coming and it was FANTASTIC." Girl vs Books

"Cranks up the suspense, tension, complications, revelations and twists to create a gripping, dramatic and exciting ending . . . A great read" Bibliomaniac

"Well written and perfectly pitched . . . a great debut thriller" Bloomin Brilliant Books

"Gripping, full of twists and turns, it's very hard to put it down!" Bibliophile Book Club

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T.M. Logan is a Sunday Times bestseller whose thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in 22 countries around the world. The Holiday was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and was adapted into a four-part TV drama, as was The Catch. Formerly a national newspaper journalist, he writes full time and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children. Follow him @TMLoganAuthor

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M0R1Y1J
Publisher ‏ : ‎ twenty7
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Publication date ‏ : ‎ 17 Jan. 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5.3 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 429 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1785770548
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Best Sellers Rank: 8,566 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 72 in Action & Adventure Literary Fiction
- 134 in Psychological Literary Fiction
- 200 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction

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TM Logan's thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are translated into 22 other languages for publication around the world.

Tim's latest novel, THE DAUGHTER, follows the story of Lauren, who goes to pick up her daughter from university at the end of her first term - only to find the room occupied by a stranger. No-one knows her daughter’s name or recognises her picture, and it soon becomes clear she’s vanished without trace…

His tenth novel, THE WEEKEND, is coming in March 2026.

THE HOLIDAY was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and spent ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback top ten. It has since won a Nielsen Gold Bestseller Award and been made into a four-part TV drama with Jill Halfpenny. THE CATCH was also adapted for TV, starring Jason Watkins, Poppy Gilbert, Aneurin Barnard and Cathy Belton.

Tim's other books are THE DREAM HOME, THE MOTHER, THE CURFEW, TRUST ME, LIES and 29 SECONDS.

A former national newspaper journalist, Tim lives in Nottinghamshire with his family and writes in a cabin in the corner of his garden.

For exclusive writing, new releases and a FREE deleted scene, sign up to the Readers’ Club at TM Logan dot com. You can also find him on Facebook at /TMLoganAuthor, or on Instagram, Bluesky, Threads and X @TMLoganAuthor.

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Customers find the book well-written and engaging from the first 90% of the story, with a plot that keeps them gripped from start to finish. Moreover, the mystery content is thought-provoking and keeps customers guessing, and they describe it as a definite page turner. However, the pacing receives mixed reviews, with some finding it quick-paced while others say it's slow to get going. Additionally, the characters receive mixed reactions, with some praising the character descriptions while others find the main character dim-witted.

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Customers find the book well-written and entertaining, with many noting that the first 90% is excellent.

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Customers enjoy the book's twists and turns, finding the plot intriguing and the story potentially plausible, with one customer noting the initial tension was well done.

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"...at times but with engaging, perfectly polished characters and a gripping storyline you would be mad to miss this one! Highly recommended by me!" Read more

"...have been pinned down brilliantly to make most of the story potentially plausible, it all feels rather like trial by technology and social media and..." Read more

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Customers enjoy the mystery content of the book, finding it compelling and unexpected, with one customer noting how the clues were subtly woven throughout the narrative.

"...What I thought was interesting about this book and a very topical subject at the moment, was the social media aspect...." Read more

"...For me, Lies was more about assessing and pulling apart information, rather than physically chasing the antagonist...." Read more

"...This short, sharp intro meant that my interest was immediately piqued by the idea that one little decision can lead to your life going off on a..." Read more

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Customers find the book highly engaging, noting they were hooked from the first page and kept enthralled throughout.

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Customers enjoy this book as a page turner, with one describing it as a rollercoaster of a read that keeps you guessing.

"I found this a real page-turner, and was rooting for Joe, despite finding some of his decisions, and refusal to ditch his wife, frustrating and..." Read more

"...I was drawn into every page and definitely did not predict the twisty ending...." Read more

"...Is Ben dead? It's a rollercoaster of a book with a great twist in the end. Loved it📕😆..." Read more

"Well written and a definite page-turner; started it at 11pm thinking I’d read a couple of chapters before bed but couldn’t put it down until 4.30am..." Read more

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"...The characters were pretty decent. I liked Joe and his son William. The other characters were represented well for what they were...." Read more

"...you do have to suspend belief at times but with engaging, perfectly polished characters and a gripping storyline you would be mad to miss this one!..." Read more

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Lorraine Millar
certainly the best yet.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2025
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What a fantastic story. One that can’t be put down easily. Each book I’ve read leaves me thinking it was the best, but Lies tops them all - until the next one!!!!

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Lies - T M Logan
Title: Lies
Author: T M Logan
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Publisher: Twenty7
Pages: 512
Price on Amazon: Paperback £5.59 Kindle £0.98
ISBN: 1785770551

What if everything in your life you thought you knew was a lie?

Lies follows the life of Jo and his family. When Jo is driving home with son William and William spots his mothers car going into the carpark of a hotel Jo decides to follow her to see what she's up to. From there Jo's life is turned upside down and everything he thought he knew turns out to be a lie.

With Jo's life crashing down around him and the police after him for murder can Jo put all the pieces together in time to figure out what is going on and prove his innocence before its to late? Or will Jo end up going to prison for a murder he didn't commit, a murder he doesn't even believe has taken place. Can he save himself and keep his family together or do other people have other ideas?

As i as was reading this book i thought i had a pretty good idea on what was going on, on who was to blame and the how the story was going to end. I thought this was going to be a pretty typical who done it kind of book. Well turns out i was only half right. The other half and well the major half i did not see coming.

i have given this book 4 out of 5 stars, however i did pay for this book as it was only 98p which would usually get itself inn the 5 star rating but as i don't think i will reread it i have given it 4 stars however, i would recommend this book for anyone looking for a good psychological thriller that keeps you guessing.

I found the characters in this book to be rather annoying. Jo kept going on about how he wanted to make his Marriage work and stay with his wife after her affair yet he constantly checked her phone, didn't trust her which of course is understandable i just never understood why after she hurt him so much and got him into all the trouble she did why he stuck by her and why he wanted to make the marriage work. Also Beth going on about how she needed her husband back she couldn't live without him after his affair. I can't stand women who need a man to define them and found she just came across as pathetic in the beginning of course as the book went on i understood why she was doing this and realised that it had done exactly what it was meant to.

This book was chosen as one of the books for my bookclub. Not a bad choice and i did enjoy it.

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Haven’t read it yet but all his others are great

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Mediocre psychological thriller - very readable, heavily descriptive with an emphasis on how technology has changed lives.
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This is a fast and highly readable psychological thriller than centres around cutting edge technology, hacked social media apps and a whole swathe of lies that rapidly send the life of thirty-four-year old English teacher, Joe Lynch, into free fall. Suddenly his marriage, career and freedom are all put to the test when he becomes the target of an obsessive technology entrepreneur who gets exactly what he wants and is very used to winning; in this instance, Joe’s partner of twelve-years, wife for the nine and mother of his four-year-old son, William. Or so it seems, and whilst niggling doubts force Joe to continually question the evidence and just what he is seeing, he is unable to turn back the clock and once the genie is of out the bottle the collateral damage is only a matter of time. What starts as familiar psychological thriller territory with a split second decision results in unprecedented upheaval in the life of the Lynch family.

The trivial decision that leads up to the fallout is a chance sighting of wife, Melissa’s car on a school run home, with young son, William, eager to share the news of his superstar certificate from show it to his mum. Following her into a Premier Inn car park, Joe witnesses a heated exchange between Mel and former working class Northerner, turned self-made millionaire and alpha male, Ben Delaney, the husband of a close female friend of hers. from school. As Joe confronts Ben, an angry scuffle ensues and results in an unconscious Ben sprawled on the concrete floor and unresponsive. When Joe returns to the scene there is no sign of either Ben or his swish car, but that evening a series of incriminating social media posts on Joe’s Facebook timeline are just the first of some increasingly strange happenings. Days later and unable to make contact with Ben the news from his fragile wife, Beth, that he has disappeared and gone incommunicado puts friendships under strain with Joe and Mel both knowing just a little too much about his final movements before the disappearance.

Losing his phone and having his Facebook account hacked is just the start of Joe’s unravelling as it appears that his nemesis in lying in wait in the shadows and staying carefully out of the public domain, all in a very concerted effort to necessitate the police to up the investigation into the whereabouts of Ben from missing person status to concern for his safety and a proof-of-life inquiry. All it takes is a week and a day for Joe to go from voluntarily approaching the police right through to his arrest for murder in what is treated as a no-body murder inquiry. As it seems that the onus on acquiring proof that Ben is behind his nightmare is on Joe’s shoulder, he realises that he must take proactive action to save his own skin. For all the unknown mobiles and emails that Joe believes is evidence of Ben’s stalking with intent to harm, the police counter with their own reservations, appearing sceptical that Joe has been doing anything but simply trying to wilfully obtain evidence of stalking where none exists. Just as he makes headway, wife Mel is waiting with a further tearful revelation and no soon has she promised that she is done with the lies and has told Joe the truth, once and for all, the beleaguered and beaten Joe finds himself on the receiving end of another blow. The longer the story progressed it is increasingly hard to believe that Melissa is ever being straight with Joe, despite her continued ascertains that she has disclosed everything any savvy reader will be yelling, “yeah, right..” as Joe is lured back for yet more punishment. Honestly, Joe acts like he is punch drunk, reeling from one disclosure to the next technology headache, from spyware, tracking devices, Bluetooth, forensic analysis of text messaging right through to metadata (“data about data”).

Although this starts by examining a likely scenario which is perfectly believable and the technology intricacies have been pinned down brilliantly to make most of the story potentially plausible, it all feels rather like trial by technology and social media and for me it did become a little repetitive. The writing is pretty bog-standard and feels more like a series of diary accounts being relayed, with next to no examination of heartfelt emotions but with the emphasis on the fast and furious description of events. Whilst this style of writing is perfectly readable, it is pretty anodyne and hard to get behind with any real heart. The characterisation also feels a little weak and although it is Joe who readers will come to know the best he is the living and breathing embodiment of a naive, wide-eyed family man who bears the brunt of the childcare with Mel assuming the role of the more independent party. Joe’s middle name should be “sucker” and leading ladies Mel and wife of Ben, Beth, just feel a little detached and removed from the emotion. I found myself continuously questioning events the longer this one went on and at just shy of five-hundred-pages, it does go on (and on)!

Would a dynamic businessman with his own highly profitable company really go off the radar as it appears that Ben has? Would the police really be satisfied with the results of a cursory glance for a proof of life inquiry before launching so speedily into focusing on foul play? Would a successful family man go to such extraordinary lengths to cause someone damage? Lie’s is marred a little by several disappointing aspects, firstly the absolutely ludicrous and over the top police response. Given that local police stations in the suburbs of London are now being closed down and manpower is leaner than ever, it is ridiculous to believe that the police would quickly launch into a full scale search for a body and have the spare capacity to devote their energies to a full scale search of a woods with ground-penetrating radar and police divers, and then a full house search and seizure.

Whilst Lie’s doesn’t really bring anything new to the psychological thriller genre, merely concentrating on how much social media and technology have the potential to impact a person's life, it does add another perspective to things and has made me consider how much technology has impinged upon all our lives. Posing questions about a persons relationship with technology and how much importance it has come to assume over our lives, this mediocre psychological thriller is a rapid, quick-fire read, but the basic premise of, “can I trust my partner?”, lies at the root and is a little overdone within the genre. What now feels like the required left-field twist that hijacks the story into the closing pages never really rang true for me and even looking back on the novel after finishing it there was never any indication of what was to come. Perhaps if T.M. Logan has dropped a few hints along the way his conclusion might have all felt a little more plausible. Not recommended for Luddite’s who loathe the way technology has overtaken the world and altered our communications.

Review written by Rachel Hall (@hallrachel)

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Atala Padron Collado
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This book hooked me from page 1.

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Diabolique ! Un nouveau maître du polar ?
Reviewed in France on 24 March 2018
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Le triptyque habituel : le mari, l'épouse, l'amant. Rien de nouveau sous le soleil, me direz-vous. Et pourtant ! Le cauchemar commence. Que sommes-nous devenus dans notre monde de smartphones, de SMS, de posts sur Facebook ? Sommes-nous ce que laissent entrevoir nos artefacts numériques ou est-ce quelqu'un d'autre ? Logan nous emmène dans une course haletante où tout n'est que faux-semblants et nous tient en haleine jusqu'à la fin. Un polar bien ficelé dont je suis fier d'avoir trouvé la solution assez tôt, ce qui, d'après les innombrables commentaires sur Amazon.co.uk est l'exception.

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good read. . .
Reviewed in Japan on 15 October 2018
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i did like the first half of the book, it was gripping. the ending was a little bit corny. but overall it was a good read. . .

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Der Albtraum eines jeden: falsche Wahrnehmung der eigenen Person durch andere? Ist man ein Mörder? Glauben es die anderen nur? Kann man sich selbst noch trauen? Wem kann man trauen? Absolut empfehlenswerter Page-Turner!

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The perfect family, the perfect life all comes crashing down when Joe becomes involved in a missing person’s case that leads to a police investigation where Joe becomes the main suspect of foul play.

The more Joe tries to clear his name, the more the police believe he is responsible for another man’s life.

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