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    Tell Me Lies
    Tell Me Lies
    Tell Me Lies
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    Tell Me Lies

    Written by Jennifer Crusie

    Narrated by Joyce Bean

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Maddie Faraday's life would be perfect—if it weren't for
    her cheating husband
    her suspicious daughter
    her gossipy mother
    her secretive best friend
    her nosy neighbors,
    and that guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago...

    In Tell Me Lies, Jennifer Cruise dishes up a funny, sexy, suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter and chocolate brownies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 25, 2006
    ISBN9781423302391
    Tell Me Lies
    Author

    Jennifer Crusie

    Jennifer Crusie was researching her dissertation on the differences in the way men and women tell stories when she got sidetracked into writing romance novels. Her first book was published in 1993 (which pretty much finished off any hope of her getting that PhD) and her twenty-second book, Maybe This Time, came out in August of 2010, all of which she considers a minor miracle, especially since she is also a New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and a two-time Rita award winner.

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    • 5/5
      The best fun, humor with depth of feeling … just amazing
    • 5/5
      Excellent book good narated funny drama love intrigue. I like this author and thank you for it in audiobook. Keep them coming and love the characters. Especially Grandma
    • 2/5
      Nice supporting characters and small town. Heroine was a total idiot and hard to like. I wanted to smack her at times. One time read and there are better choices.
    • 4/5
      Seriously well-plotted romance mystery, which I liked and disliked as I read through and ended up loving. The parts I disliked seemed messy — Maddie not acting as I thought any sane woman would, or people forgiving others where forgiveness might be questionable — but by story’s end I realised it worked because people don’t act as they should, life is messy, and maybe we should all be a little more forgiving especially when no one is perfect. I came to love Maddie’s grandmother perhaps the most — her character sums up the essence of the book perfectly, even though at first that doesn’t seem like an endorsement. Many of Crusie’s earlier work is short, still well-plotted, but light fun. This is all of those things and more, showing that imperfection can be okay, even preferable sometimes, not to worry so much about what the neighbours think, and it’s also fine to be occasionally selfish. And how it feels good to stand up to dominating relatives sometimes.
    • 3/5
      My re-read of this book has been an interesting, eye-opening experience of how time and life can alter one's view of a story. Maddie Faraday is the "Good Girl" in a small town run on gossip, and married to her high school sweetheart, Brent, the "Golden Boy" of Frog Point, who predictably can't keep it in his pants. C.L. was the bad boy in high school who long ago shared one very steamy night with Maddie in the back of a car; the culmination of a long-standing crush on his part, and an act of revenge on hers. Now, 20 years later, C.L. is back - mature, still sexy, and an accountant - to do a favour for his ex-wife, by looking at the books of the construction company Brent co-owns. All hell breaks loose. I remember this book being a fun romp with some moderately steamy sex scenes when I first read it lo those many years ago. It's still a fun romp with some moderately steamy sex scenes, but this time around it was also...confronting. This time around I'm on the other side of a marriage implosion and a good chunk of this story felt very real, very plausible. Maddie's meltdown, Brent's avoidance, the anger, the confrontation, that very desperate moment Maddie has with a half bottle of wine in her hand: it all felt like it came from a place of personal experience (for the author - not me). Losing herself in C.L. also felt authentic if not intelligent. This is chick-lit, so it goes without saying that the story has a happy, if overly convenient, ending, but the middle is a bit more raw than anything else I've read of Crusie's. There's a mystery element to this story as well, and it was really well crafted; the suspect so deeply buried in the narrative that I never had a clue. A very good read and not quite as frivolous as one would think from the term "chick-lit".
    • 3/5
      Funny moments and another enjoyable Jennifer Crusie novel. More along the lines of "cozy mystery" than usual for author. Synopsis at this site accurate so not going to re-summarize the plot.
    • 5/5
      This story was rather absorbing although it led me all over the place, sometimes humorous and other times very serious. The heroine varied between a flighty pushover and a strong sensitive woman but I was still intrigued. Maddie finds evidence her husband is cheating and accountant C.L. is investigating him for possibility of swindling someone.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! I wasn't expecting some of the twists at all! Gotta pick up her other books!
    • 4/5
      Though this was on my "Read" shelf, I could swear this is the first time I met C.L. and Maddie. This may be the very best of Crusie's heartbreak-and-heist type stories, with a believable plot to compliment the very wonderful characters. I particularly love that Maddie's wayward husband, while not often present, is certainly humanized and mourned.
    • 3/5
      This was my first Jennifer Crusie read, and I was pleased with it for the most part. Maddie is a pretty average mom and wife, living in a small town where not only does everyone know your business, but they’ll tell your mother too. Having grown up in a town of 1200 people (in a good year), I can relate. Maddie was a little flightly and irrational (throwing away the evidence of your husband’s infidelity? leaving suspiciously found cash where it can be found?), but likable enough. I also liked C.L. as the reformed, torch-carrying bad boy. I was a little iffy on her daughter, Emily, and questioned whether the scenes from her point of view were really necessary or just there to force us into some emotional connection with her.Some readers have mentioned that the police investigation(s) in this book don’t make a whole lot of sense, but I am 100% capable of suspending disbelief in a story like this — it’s not meant to be a police procedural. The one part of the book that really bothered me was her husband’s death. His murder is announced on the back of the book, but you are 60% of the way through the book (literally!) before he actually kicks it. This meant I spent several chapters asking, 'Is he dead yet?' 'Maybe he’s dead now?' only to have him show up in the next scene. I would have preferred to have that little tidbit held back, thank you very much.Despite that, I enjoyed the story enough to read more of Crusie’s work.
    • 3/5
      Not my favorite, but still a good Jennifer Crusie read.
    • 5/5
      The first of Crusie's books I ever read, it remains one of my favorites. Yes, Maddie does some dumb things, but I like her. I really like the way the small-town miasma of gossip and expectations colors the actions of all the characters.
    • 4/5
      This is light reading - Crusie almost always is, and that's not a bad thing. This one isn't as fun as some of her others (God, how I loved Welcome to Temptation!), but it's just as sexy! Beware - her characters get busy often and we the readers get MANY details!
    • 4/5
      Smalltown mentality at its worst, this book spins a complex net of human interrelations. Everybody's guilty. It's witty and a great character study.
    • 4/5
      Maddie had what she thought was an OK life. Sure she didn't really like her husband much, but she had a great daughter with him. Then it happened. She found a pair of crotchless panties in his car. She decides she's not going to take this kind of betrayal (again) and confronts him. At the same time an old flame comes back into town and all hell breaks loose.Before she knows it Maddie is knee deep in a murder investigation and lies, lies, lies.This is a very entertaining read, much like Crusie's other books. Quirky, steamy and romantic with a twist.
    • 4/5
      Oh, there is a scene in this book that I laughed aloud until I howled! My friend and I still talk about it after sharing the book! Loved this one!
    • 5/5
      You know it's a good book when you laugh out loud and cry at the same time. It has the right mix of suspense, humor, sarcasm, sexual interludes, and interesting characters that end up make it a wonderful read. This novel has all of the warmth and charm readers have come to expect from Crusie.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. Once I got into it I just could not put it down. You gotta love C.L. He's great!
    • 2/5
      Could not get into the story line
    • 4/5
      Smalltown mentality at its worst, this book spins a complex net of human interrelations. Everybody's guilty. It's witty and a great character study.