"Prompted by one disturbed girl, the words of two little liars spiral to a lifetime of tragedy in this pacey, thought-provoking, witch-infused thriller."
“There are lies, and then there are evil lies”. Evil words, toxic masculinity and revenge collide on an island of witches in Michelle Harrison’s Two Little Liars, the successful children’s author’s first foray into adult fiction. With a twisting, multi-timeframe plot that sees the past transgressions of two little liars haunt the present, it’s a finely-threaded thriller for readers who relish psychological intrigue.
Playing out across three time periods, 1990, 1996 and 2016, sixteen years ago, at the age of ten, Erin and her best friend Aidan were compelled to befriend a strange girl in their neighbourhood. “People call me Bee”, she’d introduced herself. “I’m a witch”. And it’s Bee who persuades Erin to tell the lie that comes to ricochet through many lives, with fatal results.
Seven years later, Erin and Bee meet again on a school trip, and their unexpected reconnection on eerie Blackwater Island, where four women were found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to death in 1651, leaves Erin burning “with shame and guilt and fear, transported back to memories she’s tried to forget”. During this trip, Bee dies in bizarre, tragic circumstances, exacerbating how she haunts Erin’s life. Skip forward to 2016, and the threat of Erin’s connection to Bee being exposed brings her back to Blackwater Island, where, little by little, “lies rearrange themselves into truths”, and the stage is set for an unexpected, time-stopping showdown.
Almost a whodunnit reconfigured as a chilling “who’s doing it?” thriller as the butterfly effect of a decades-old lie crashes into the present, Two Little Liars also explores themes of toxic masculinity, abuse, and persecution through the framework of a twisty, suspenseful page-turner.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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Erin and Bee are the TWO LITTLE LIARS. Vilified. Despised. Never forgiven, forgotten, or meant to see each other again after the tragedy they caused.
Until a fateful college trip brings them together, and Bee is murdered.
Twenty years on, the case remains unsolved and a threat reunites the survivors of the trip.
Someone knows who Erin is - and what she did the night Bee died.
Someone who'll kill again.
Two Little Liars features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense
Two Little Liars is available in Paperback
Two Little Liars was written by Michelle Harrison and published by No Exit Press an imprint of Bedford Square Publishers
Two Little Liars has 317 pages
£8.99
