One of Us Is Lying
- 360
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“One of Us Is Lying” is built to be devoured: suspicion keeps shifting from one student to the next in a familiar school setting. A romance subplot wins some readers over as much as the mystery does. The characters are easy to like, and there are readers who find the resolution tamer than they hoped. A quick, entertaining young adult mystery, the first of three; readers after something weightier may feel a little empty afterwards.
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About the book
One of Us Is Lying is a young-adult mystery/suspense novel by American author Karen M. McManus. It is her debut novel, originally published in the US by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, on May 30, 2017. It was followed by two sequels: One of Us Is Next, published on January 7, 2020, and One of Us Is Back, published on July 23, 2023.
Reading order · One of Us Is Lying
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7.67.6 / 10 - One of Us Is Next
7.67.6 / 10 - One of Us Is BackOne of Us Is Back–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 1,070 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 88% of the weight and the score stays at 7.6 — the Young adult average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 94 | 9% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 11 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 965 | 90% |
Frequently asked
What age is One of Us Is Lying for?
One of Us Is Lying sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 360 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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