Lies by T.M. Logan review

About The Book

Book: Lies
Author: T.M. Logan
Standalone or Series: Standalone
Publisher: Zaffre
Publication Date (UK): January 2017. This edition: 4th December 2025

My Review

Zaffre kindly included me in #TM10, a year-long celebration of the fantastic T.M. Logan and his forthcoming tenth release, The Weekend, publishing on 26 February and available to pre-order now.

As part of the celebrations, we’ve been reading (or in some of the groups case re-reading) his debut novel Lies, which also received a funky new cover design last year.

At nearly 500 pages, I was surprised by the length, but I absolutely whizzed through it. Joe is driving his son, Will, home when Will spots a “mummy car”, which is what he calls all VW Golfs. Only this time… it is his mum’s car. Hoping to surprise his wife, Joe follows it. Only to discover she’s at a hotel with Ben, her best friend’s husband, and so begins the first lie.

What follows is a tense cat-and-mouse chase as Joe fights to prove his innocence while it appears Ben is working hard to prove his guilt. Is Joe being framed? And what’s really going on?

I found myself completely rooting for Joe and racing from chapter to chapter, desperate to find out what happens next.

This was a great debut to open with and I’m really looking forward to reading The Weekend and more of Logan’s back catalogue with the group.

Thank you to Zaffre for sending me this copy of Lies.