Awards

• Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Young Adult Mystery 2013
• Short-listed for Edgar Allen Poe Award 2013 (UK)
• Shortlisted for Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Young Adult Mystery 2013.

Overview

Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town Becca meets sixteen-year-old Derric Mathieson, a Ugandan orphan who was adopted at the age of ten by the town's Deputy Sheriff. Derric also has a secret that no one on Whidbey Island knows, and he and Becca form a bond that can't be broken. Becca is convinced that she's the only person who can truly help him, and just maybe Derric can convince Becca that life is too short to live on the run.

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In combining her skills in crime writing with an obvious flair for the supernatural this award-winning author creates a wonderful tale. My Weekly Praise for BELIEVING THE LIE: 'A fascinating read.' Woman Presses all the buttons to make us hoover her stuff up Daily Telegraph She's a designer of fastidious mosaics that never fail to intrigue. Guardian Her crime novels combine Victorian craftsmanship, psychological observation and ingenious plotting. George's celebrated attention to detail keeps the reader totally immersed. Kate Saunders, Saga The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about. Sun

Action-packed, mysterious, and somewhat creepy ... Raising the bar when it comes to today's YA fiction. Suspense Magazine In combining her skills in crime writing with an obvious flair for the supernatural this award-winning author creates a wonderful tale. My Weekly The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about. Sun Presses all the buttons to make us hoover her stuff up. Daily Telegraph

Praise for BELIEVING THE LIE: 'A fascinating read.' -- Woman 20120116 'Presses all the buttons to make us hoover her stuff up' -- Daily Telegraph 20120116 'She's a designer of fastidious mosaics that never fail to intrigue.' -- Guardian 20120116 'Her crime novels combine Victorian craftsmanship, psychological observation and ingenious plotting. George's celebrated attention to detail keeps the reader totally immersed.' -- Kate Saunders, Saga 20120116 'The author writes brilliantly and has an incredible ability to set a scene and create characters you want to know more about.' -- Sun 20120116

Author Information

Elizabeth George is the internationally bestselling author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. Her first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France; Well-schooled in Murder was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI '1990'. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee, her novels have been adapted for television by the BBC.

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