If you haven’t read this book, it’s time you found out about narrator, Jeanne Cross, the seemingly sweet, toe-the-line mother, wife, and school administrator from suburbia. She’s the kind of person who doesn’t cause trouble, who doesn’t ask questions, who doesn’t like to be upset.

If you believe me, then figure out what made this passive woman look at what’s rotting inside her household.  Why did she seek answers to questions about her son she could no longer evade or figure out? What led her to de-mask her husband and untangle who she thought he was?

See what you think about Jeanne’s new best friend, the seductive music teacher: Ali Mathers. Why does Ali insist Jeanne face untenable emotions? Why make her deal with circumstances she doesn’t want to see?

When Patry Francis shared what inspired her to write Liar’s Diary at Backstory she said: “Like a lot of novels that deal with a violent crime, The Liar's Diary began with a story from the headlines that I couldn't forget. An adolescent had committed a particularly gruesome murder in his neighborhood. The community rose to his defense. He was a "good boy" from a "wonderful family." There was no way he could have committed such an act. The evidence, however, proved otherwise.

“It was a story that drew on many of my personal obsessions as a writer: the way the face we present to the world often hides a different reality, the frequently unreliable mask that respectability makes, and most of all, the secret lives of families. Did these parents really know so little about their son? Hadn't there been signs? Surely, a thoughtful, well-balanced child doesn't wake up one morning and kill. Or does he?”

Join the celebration of this haunting, disturbing saga, which bestseller Tess Gerritsen says is “a twisting ride full of dangerous curves …one of my favorite reads of the year.”  Find out what your favorite thriller writers are saying about Liar’s Diary by clicking on any of the links below. You can also watch a video trailer or listen to this excerpt.

Laura Benedict, Karen Dionne, JT Ellison, CJ Lyons, Jordan Dane ,Kelli Stanley, MJ Rose, Jason Pinter, David Montgomery, Leighton Gage, David Corbett, Alexandra Sokoloff, David Isaak, Jonathan Maberry, Brett Battles, Terese Ramin, Shane Gericke, Sarie Morrell, Vicki Hinze, Mario Acevedo, Michael Haskins, Lisa Jackson, Michael Palmer, James Rollins, William Bernhardt, Joe Moore, Gerry Doyle, Jim DeFelice, Tess Gerritsen, Ken Bruen, Bill Cameron, Michael Haskins, Douglas Preston, Cynthia Clark, Eileen Hutton, Sharon Linnea, Tim Maleeny, Hank Ryan, Marcus Sakey, Clea Simon, Louise Ure, Sarah Weinman, JD Rhoades, Dave White, Thomas O'Callaghan, William Floyd and others that I may have missed.

UPDATE: As a result of the Jan. 29 blogfest for Patry Francis, Liar's Diary started the day on Amazon at #57,000 and ended up in the  #1 position for psychological suspense and #285 overall!

Patry Francis is a three-time nominee for The Pushcart Prize and has twice been the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant.  Her short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous literary magazines.  She lives on Cape Cod with her husband of twenty-seven years. Liar’s Diary will also be published in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

ITW contributing editor Jessica Keener is a fiction editor at Agni magazine. Her work has been listed in the Pushcart Prize anthology under ‘100 outstanding writers,’ and published in literary journals as well as online sites including The Huffington Post, iVillage and DearReader.com.  A recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist award, in 2001 she co-wrote Time to Make the Donuts with the founder of Dunkin’ Donuts. She is currently writing a novel set in Budapest, Hungary.