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★★★★☆ 4.08 • Goodreads

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Craved Simply Lies for its ruthless chess game between women? None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell weaponizes that same duplicity.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Female leads who lie like breathing
  • Twists earned through misdirection not gimmicks
  • Ruthless psychological games w/ no safety net
  • Cynical payoff—no tidy moral redemption here

You devoured Simply Lies for its ruthless chess game between women who weaponize deception—and None of This Is True delivers that same addictive dance of duplicity, only this time through a podcaster and her unnervingly intimate subject. Jewell engineers the kind of relentless, page-flipping momentum Baldacci perfected, stripping away filler to expose raw psychological warfare where every motive hides three layers deeper.

If you trusted no one in Baldacci's world, prepare to question every word here.

This isn't cozy suspense—it's cynical, grounded, and built for readers who demand their twists earned through character cunning, not contrivance. The moral gray areas feel lived-in, the betrayals plausible, the payoff bracingly unsentimental.

If you trusted no one in Baldacci's world, prepare to question every word here.

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What Readers Are Saying

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"This is an addictive page-turner that I couldn’t put down...Josie is a train wreck of a character that I couldn’t look away from. The ending gave me the chills." Meredith (Trying to catch up!), Goodreads

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