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Verity

by Colleen Hoover · 2018

Literary Fiction · ranked #81 in category

Struggling writer Lowen Ashby is hired to complete a bestselling thriller series after the author Verity Crawford is incapacitated. Working in the Crawford home, Lowen finds a manuscript — an apparent autobiography — that contains a confession of terrible acts. Hoover's dark thriller is about truth, gaslighting and the stories women tell themselves and each other.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2018 · 2010s
Author
Colleen Hoover
Standing
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