Liar, Liar

Liar, Liar by Lisa Jackson. New York, Kensington, 2018. 416 pages. ****

Didi Storm is determined to hit it big as a celebrity impersonator in order to claim fame and to care for her family. Remmi, her daughter, is fifteen and is much more realistic about their future especially since Didi now has twins with no husband in sight. When Didi takes one of the twins on a late night ride and Remmi is accidentally locked in a secret compartment in the car, Remmi witnesses a car explosion. Didi's actions are erratic after that late night assignation and Remmi fears for her life and the lives of her brother and sister. When Didi fails to return one day, Remmi sets out with her brother to find her. Fast forward twenty years later, a tell-all book is published about Didi and a woman in Didi's clothes falls from a San Francisco building just as Remmi is approaching the building. Is it Didi on the sidewalk? Who wrote the book about her mother and can Remmi finally get the answers to that fateful night in the desert?

An intriguing plot of mystery, fame, family relationships, and heartbreak. I always enjoy Lisa Jackson's books and I was not disappointed. This is the kind of book that you take on vacation, enjoy it and pass it on to a friend. Remmi is a very strong, resilient, likable character, Didi, not so much. I felt that Jackson did a good job of tying together all of the subplots, a couple of surprises, but satisfying at the end.

I received an ecopy for a review.

Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than 85 novels, including Afraid to Die, Tell Me, You Don’t Want to Know, Running Scared, Without Mercy, Malice, and Shiver.  She is also the co-author of the Colony Series, co-written with her sister, Nancy Bush. There are over 20 million copies of Lisa Jackson’s books in print in twenty languages.

Before she became a nationally bestselling author, Lisa Jackson was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, the USA Today, and the Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists. More about Lisa www.lisajackson.com.

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