From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, secrets, and the dangerous games teenaged girls play.

On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten, along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister…

The next morning, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isa—receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.”

The four girls were best friends at Salten, a second-rate boarding school set near the cliffs of the English Channel. Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty. But their little game had consequences, and as the four converge in present-day Salten, they realize their shared past was not as safely buried as they had once hoped…

Atmospheric, twisty, and with just the right amount of chill to keep you wrong-footed, The Lying Game is told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, lending itself to becoming another unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.


《暗黑森林》、《10 號艙房的女人》兩本驚悚小說一出版立即登上《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜後，作者再度獻上驚悚巨作，結合友情、秘密、女孩們的危險遊戲。

六月，涼爽的早上，恬靜悠閒的沿海小鎮索爾頓鎮上，女子正沿著潮汐河口的河灣地溜狗。在她還來不及阻止前，狗狗突然衝進水中拾回一個乍看之下奇形怪狀的棒子，沒想到這卻是一切詭譎事件的預兆。

隔天早上，住在倫敦四周的法蒂瑪、西婭、伊莎，三個女人紛紛收到一封只寫著「我需要你」的簡訊，寄件人是以前跟她們很要好的朋友凱特。然而，這封簡訊卻令她們無不懊悔要是從沒收到就好了。

當初在索爾頓鎮上，四個女孩非常要好，就讀同一所二流的寄宿學校，學校靠近英吉利海峽附近的峭壁。她們各有各的特色，常常形影不離，常說謊欺騙老師跟同學，她們也因總是在一起玩欺騙他人的遊戲而聲名狼藉，但她們騙人小把戲卻是有後果的。現在四人重聚在索爾頓鎮才發現，以為已經完美掩埋的過往早已洩漏出去⋯⋯

曲折離奇的情節，再加上些許驚悚點綴，營造出的特殊氛圍，絕對出乎你預料。這就是露絲．魏爾驚悚小說的寫作特色，讓讀者看得提心吊膽卻又愛不釋手，可謂是當代的阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂。