Jenn Brouwer asked Riley Sager:

I dont have a question, i just wanted to let you know that The Last Time I Lied was one of my favorite books ever. Literally. I stayed awake until after 3am because i could not put it down, then i was late to work the next day and ultimately used some vacation time to leave work early so i could go home to finish the book. Amazing book. Thank You! Where did you get the idea for this novel? Did you ever attend a camp?

Riley Sager But you do have a question! Two of them! : ) The idea came to me while watching the film Picnic at Hanging Rock, which about schoolgirls who vanish in the Australian Outback. I thought it would be cool to take that plot, update it and set it at an all-girls summer camp. And, yes, I went to camp for a week when I was 10. I hated every second of it, although some of it made its way into THE LAST TIME I LIED.

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