Riley Sager’s second book just as good

The Last Time I Lied By Riley Sager, Penguin, $37

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The Last Time I lied is Riley Sager, a former journalist’s second thriller.

His first, Final Girls, was a bestseller and a film version is currently being developed.

Emma Davis, a 13-year-old, is a late arrival for her summer camp.

All places have been allocated so she is squeezed into a cabin already occupied by three older girls.

Vivian, the ringleader, is set upon being a nuisance at camp, a stirrer stretching the limits. She takes Emma under her wing. Emma, an only child, is flattered.

She has grown up in a household where her mother is an an alcoholic and her father wrapped up in his business world. She thinks Vivian is the big sister she yearned for and as her little sister is putty in Vivian’s hands. The first night in the camp the girls teach her how to play two truths and a lie.

The camp is situated in a forest around a manmade lake, created by the grandfather of the woman Franny, who owns and runs the camp.

The story or legend of the lake is that the grandfather created the lake while the village folk who refused to leave their homes were still there. Coupled with the fact that Franny’s husband, an Olympic swimmer, drowned here in dubious