The Fine Art of Lying

“This book feels like a secret I’m not supposed to share . . . but it’s too good not to!”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club May ’26 Pick) “Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattan’s very own Agatha Christie.”—Ada Calhoun From the critically acclaimed author of Who Is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting novel about a young wife and mother in a world of wealth and privilege whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal. Clare Bast’s love of art saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband. Despite her best efforts—including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter, Sadie, was born—Clare secretly can’t help but feel like an impostor in Jed’s one percent, Park Avenue life. When the well-connected wife of Jed’s new boss introduces Clare to influential friends—a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad—she feels herself coming alive again.