One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus

May 2017 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Kim Mai Guest, MacLeod Andrews, Shannon McManus, and Robbie Daymond

About this audiobook

All the secrets of the Bayview Four will be revealed in the TV series now streaming on Peacock!

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“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (Entertainment Weekly) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.
 
Pay close attention and you might solve this.
On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.
    Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
    Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
    Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
    Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
    And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.
 
Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

And don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestselling sequel, One of Us is Next!


Audiobook Cast of Narrators:
Kim Mai Guest - Bronwyn
Shannon McManus - Andy
Robbie Daymond - Nate
Macleod Andrews - Cooper 


“An addictive, devour-in-one-sitting thriller with so many twists and turns you'll be wondering until the very end: Who really killed Simon?”—Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters

"This fast-paced blend of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and classic John Hughes will leave readers racing to the finish as the try to unravel the mystery on their own."—Kirkus Reviews

"A smart, twisted, and unpredictable YA mystery that will have readers guessing until the very end."—SLJ

Ratings and reviews

4.5 stars — Dudes, I can’t handle mysteries…and yet I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I mean, I kept taking breaks along the way, b/c I’m so freaking impatient and I just want answers….but then I’d start it up again and be sucked in! So for something outside my wheelhouse, this was a total success. The narrators were all solid. I’d listened to Kim Mai Guest and Shannon McManus before, and they were delightful as always. And both MacLeod Andrews and Robbie Daymond were on point for Cooper and Nate. Great pacing, good emotion, just…well, solid. I think the thing that pushed this through for me is that the 4 characters were really intriguing. They each had their own set of things they were dealing with, and they were wildly different from one another, but I ended up feeling for all of them. There were some mini mysteries at the beginning about what each of their gossip would be, and I almost wonder if that annoyed me the most…I hate it when the character I’m reading knows something and I don’t…I know, it’s stupid, but there you go. Luckily we were given clues along the way, and it wasn’t long before those were laid open anyways. As for the big mystery? Well, honestly? I KNEW IT!!!! But the problem is that I wanted it confirmed, and then I would keep wondering if I was on the wrong track, but I could never let it go. And that’s all I’m going to say about that. Normally I would expound upon the characters, or the plot, but you can’t really do that with a mystery, can you? So I’ll just say I really enjoyed myself right to the very end, and was satisfied with the way it all played out and how certain characters grew.

read the book, it was great. nothing really to say about it, but it was really an incredibly amazing book, and a good way to pass time, I recomend it recommended (I read the physical copy)

The book was great kept me thrilled to the end I was so surprised it was a great thriller would love if she made a second one like thia

About the author

Karen M. McManus earned her BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross and her MA in journalism from Northeastern University. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying, its sequel One of Us Is Next, Two Can Keep a Secret and The Cousins. Her work has been published in more than 40 languages. To learn more about Karen and her books, visit karenmcmanus.com, or follow @writerkmc on Twitter and Instagram.