The Lies I Tell

Julie Clark’s The Lies I Tell is a psychological thriller novel that follows two women, Kat, a journalist who loses everything one night after working tirelessly to make herself a place in a man’s field, and Meg Williams, a con artist who seeks to pull off the ultimate job on the man who wronged her mother many years ago. Ten years before the events of the book, one of Meg’s cons crosses Kat’s path and leads to the destruction of her life, or so Kat thinks. On her quest to get revenge on Meg, Kat finds herself realizing that not all con artists are bad people.

Julie Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight, The Ones We Choose, and The Lies I Tell. She is based in Los Angeles.

This guide refers to the 2022 Sourcebooks Landmark Kindle edition.

Content Warning: The book and this guide include references to rape, sexual harassment, death of a parent, terminal illness, derogatory language about diverse groups, and substance addiction.

Plot Summary

One summer at a political fundraiser, journalist Kat runs into the woman she has been hunting for years, the con artist who ruined Kat’s life named Meg Williams.