by Jillian Cantor

Amelia Grant is a young starlet in Hollywood who is given the role that will make her famous. She is to star in a biopic about the glamorous and very famous romance novelist, Gloria Diamond. The biopic is based on Gloria’s memoir and as part of her contract, Amelia is to go to Gloria’s house in Seattle to meet her and get to know her before filming starts. However when Amelia gets to her house she finds that Gloria’s is rude, cold and uncooperative. Amelia’s mother recently died and she loved Gloria’s books and had all of them on her bookshelf so Amelia couldn’t wait to meet Gloria and tell her how much her mother loved her books but Gloria is nothing like she thought she would be.

Filming will start soon and Amelia is becoming increasingly nervous about it. How can she accurately portray Gloria in the film if Gloria keeps shutting her out? The story starts in the present and then flashes back to the past as Amelia slowly uncovers some disturbing and confusing secrets about love, lies and betrayal.

The Greatest Lie of All was a page turner for me. If you enjoy novels with a mix of mystery, romance and family secrets you will be drawn into this book just as I was.

Thanks to Harlequin Trade Publishing/Park Row and NetGalley for the advanced reading copy.