In Rachel Vincent’s new page-turner, Every Single Lie, she presents the reader with a scandal in a small town, social media bullying, and rumors. It’s a fabulous combination.
Beckett just dumped her boyfriend, Jake, because she thought he was cheating on her. When she sneaks back onto campus to take a French test, Jake’s baseball teammates coming down the hall make Beckett decide to hide in the girls’ locker room, which is closed for remodeling. However, someone else has been there first, because in an abandoned school duffel bag, Beckett discovers a dead newborn baby.
Beckett’s mom is one of the detectives in town, and she and another police officer question Beckett as a witness. But someone has started a Twitter account using the name of the defunct high school newspaper, and before she knows what’s happening, Beckett is presumed to be the baby’s mother/killer.
As Beckett tries her best to find the truth and do right by the baby – named “Lullaby” Doe by the anonymous Twitter account, she has to deal with death threats and a town that just wants to add more fuel to her family fire, which started with the scandal of her veteran father’s overdose and death less than a year before.
I won’t spoil the ending, but it was a good one, and Vincent took the plot through a collection of wrong suspicions before we get there. The characters are well-developed and I didn’t figure out who the real mother was until just before it was revealed.
A worthy read for sure.
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