Mystery or straight black novels that address the issue of people's identity have a unique niche of passionate readers in search of those enigmas that stem from double lives, from the concealment of truths or the discovery of secrets. Very recent antecedents show it. Some cases like that of Collusion, by Carlos del amor, or Illusionarium of José San Clemente or even The book of mirrors, of Chirovici, they testify to this.
In the case of book Everyone lies, by the American Mindy Mejia we enjoy one of those new approaches that appear critically from an explosive point of the protagonist's personal history. In this case we focus on Hattie Hoffman, girl 10 from her high school, beautiful and gifted for the performing arts, a career to which she directs her life.
Until death takes her away. Someone smashes Hattie's dreams in an atrocious way, with extreme violence. The subsequent subsequent investigations by Sheriff Goodman are taking unpredictable drifts around these aspects of identity transformation. Hattie is becoming less and less like herself. As the police investigate her life, another girl's life seems to find its way into the young aspiring actress's past.
His father is learning what is being found out and seems puzzled. It cannot be that his daughter was that other girl who recounts her sinister passage through the world.
Hattie as a character who went through her life with the histrionics of the melodramatic actress. Shadows and more shadows cling to the angelic young woman. Until, in a way, his murder can come to be understood, coldly, as an inescapable consequence of his royal path taken for so many years.
The evident fracture of reality and appearance in the girl's life is evidenced through the testimonies of characters directly involved. Interviews and impressions that make up an impossible picture and that condemn the reader to want to know the ultimate truth about everything.
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