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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan; Main Market Ed. edition (January 15, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1447265815
  • ISBN-13: 978-1447265818
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsYou are taken into a world of people who you would not like to meet or to become
By Readergirl on January 10, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
This novel is refreshingly uncomfortable. You are taken into a world of people who you would not like to meet or to become. The journey is through a series of poor choices and destructive behaviors that leave you wondering if anyone will ever improve.. There does emerge Rachel Teller who starts to recognize her own strength and will to do better and therein lies a plot that will keep you reading long into the night. I found this story to be so addictive it was more like watching a very well directed movie than working ones way through a book. A first class read and probably one of the best books you will ever come across.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExceptional Psychological Thriller
By K. Andrew on February 21, 2015
Format: Paperback
The Liar's Chair is an exceptional debut from author Rebecca Whitney. The psychological thriller takes us from the first scene on the precarious journey of a very flawed woman, Rachel Teller, whose husband is cruel, manipulative and power hungry to the point of bending the law to get what he wants. When Rachel accidentally runs over and kills a homeless man one morning when she is hungover and driving home from her lover's house, her life disassembles one piece at a time. In the process, we see that she already had problems in her marriage, and childhood issues have haunted her, her entire life. But what makes The Liars Chair an exceptional book is that Whitney serves us up a troubled life not only with the tension one expects from a good thriller, but with fantastic descriptive prose. Unusual for a thriller, it's the intelligent and wonderfully rich prose that carries us along on Rachel's journey, as one awful thing after another happens to her both physically and psychologically. At first I found Rachel unlikeable, but the more I discovered the reasons behind her view of the world, the more I found she redeemed herself to become a sympathetic character. The Liar's Chair is ultimately a successful page turner, and I can't wait for Rebecca Whitney's next novel.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPossibly the darkest book I've ever read
By Julia Flyte TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 11, 2015
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Wow, this one is dark. It makes Gillian Flynn's books look positive and upbeat. Rachel and David have been together for twenty years. They have built a very successful business together and from the outside their lives look perfect. But Rachel is badly damaged from her childhood and David is extremely controlling and abusive. When the book opens, Rachel accidentally kills a man in a hit and run and this will set off a chain of events which will unravel her.

This is a well written book and in the second half particularly the tension is very high. Reading it, I was desperate for Rachel to get back at David and willing her not to be a victim. Be aware that it covers a lot of unpleasant territory and every glimmer of hope will be quickly stamped on. This is not a book about pleasant people or neat resolutions. It is dark, darker than a toothless panther on a moonless night.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe story follows Rachel a seemingly happy woman who seems to have everything and appears to ...
By sarah hardy on May 2, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
I won a copy of this book in a give away in The Book Club, so a big thank you to The Book Club and to the lady behind the give away.

The Liar's Chair is a dark, chilling thriller. The story follows Rachel a seemingly happy woman who seems to have everything and appears to everyone else to be happy. Then one fateful night Rachel kills a man in a hit and run and the cracks in her life start to appear. Living a lie starts to take its toll on Rachel and she turns to her controlling husband David and her lover Will for help. Due to Rachel's lies and guilt she digs herself even more into trouble.

To be honest I can't say I liked any of the characters in this book but then I don't know if the reader is supposed to. David is a controlling husband who uses everyone in his quest for power and money in the business world and even though I think Will does genuinely have deep feelings for Rachel I don't think he came across that well until towards the end of the book. As for Rachel, she is very much a troubled soul but then most of the time I don't think she helps herself. Towards the end though I did start to have more empathy for her.

Even though in general I didn't like the characters I did enjoy The Liar's Chair. There are a couple of twists towards the end and the story line drew me in right from the very start.

Anyone who likes dark, psychological thrillers will enjoy this book and I certainly look forward to reading more by this author.
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5.0 out of 5 starsClever addictive thriller.
By Liz Barnsley on January 24, 2015
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An extremely clever, addictive and fun psychological thriller, I absolutely hated every single character in this book. HATED them. Loved to hate them and could not stop reading about them no matter how I tried though. Now, almost impossibly, I'm quite sad to leave them behind...

So we have Rachel then, telling the story. She's needy, blames all her issues on other people and is generally not particularly likeable. You may forgive her somewhat when you find out about the man she is married to but we'll see. After a drunken night with her lover, she runs down a man and kills him. Rather than calling the police she hides the body and returns home to David who is also determined to cover it up. Cue a lot of shenanigans, some twists and some turns, but mostly a terrifically intelligent insightful character piece about a lot of people you most definitely would want to avoid like the plague in real life. They are however extremely authentic and believable. Like calls to like I guess, they all seem cut from the same cloth but with different consequences.

What I loved personally about this was that, a bit like "The Apprentice" on television, it brought out my violent side. Metaphorically speaking of course, in reality I'm fairly placid. But during the reading of this I ground my teeth, growled a lot and often paced around for a bit after putting it aside for a while. As Rachel got further and further into the mire, as she pulled other people into her vortex, despite the fact that she had been through a lot in her life, I found myself being mostly sympathetic towards the dogs and hoping someone would rescue them soon...

David is an extraordinarily well drawn character. Ambitious, ruthless, cold as a fish, he treats Rachel appallingly.Read more ›
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