Review: It All Started with A Lie - Denise Brown

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Review: It All Started With A Lie - Denise Brown - February 2024

Pearl has always felt like the odd one out in her family, she is close to her Dad but her Mum is a different story. One night while playing hide and seek, Pearl discovers some newspaper clippings of her father finding a baby. It also happens to be around the same time she was born. Is her parents, not her real parents? Pearl along with her best friend Danny and a couple of others including Samantha decide to do some research about the unknown baby that was left behind. During the same month, they will discover that not only the murder of a teacher, a house caught fire, a teacher got fired as part of a student scandal, several students were pregnant and a male student was sentenced to prison for the murder. It was a time that the adults were trying to forget in the small town and it seems like the scandals are revolving around Pearl's family. What happened that summer and is Pearl ready to open a box of worms with her family as secrets are revealed and lies are confronted which can have deadly consequences? The book also has a past/present timeline which connects with what happened back then to now and how everyone is tied together. I do have to say when the ending was revealed and the true identity of the baby was revealed, I was like OMG. I did like the added twist of the final chapter. If you love YA Thrillers, Family secrets, and hidden truths - then It All Started With A Lie by Denise Brown is the read for you and fans of Karen M. McManus and Diana Urban will enjoy it.

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