All Our Lies Are True

Manterfield follows up The Smallest Thing with the gut-wrenching story of a young woman grappling with the long shadow of her sister’s disappearance. When Abby Kirkpatrick was six years old, her twin sister, Cassie, vanished from their shared bedroom. The ensuing investigation cast suspicion on the girl’s father, and the community support the family received in the days following the tragedy quickly dried up. In response, the Kirkpatricks moved to a remote corner of the U.K., where Abby grew up in a “strange, isolated world.” Sixteen years later, she’s preparing to leave her troubled home life behind for college. Just as she’s about to accept an admission offer, two police officers arrive at the Kirkpatricks’ home with news that Cassie’s corpse has been found in a dried-up lake near their old house, with a fracture on her skull that suggests foul play. The reopening of the case reopens old wounds, as Abby grapples both with her foggy memories of that night, and renewed suspicions that her father may have played a part in her sister’s death. Manterfield enriches her familiar premise with lived-in family dynamics and legitimately gripping suspense. This will linger in readers’ minds. (Self-published)