Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

     If you're looking for a book with crime, drama, and a ton of suspense, then you've come to the right place. Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is about a girl named Sawyer who is only trying to figure out who her father is but ends up getting caught up in a lot more drama than planned. 

    Sawyer Taft starts the story living in her mom’s house. However, her mom is off on a vacation they can’t afford. Her mom was often gone, and Sawyer had to support them. Then, Sawyer’s grandmother, Lillian Taft, shows up at her house with a contract. It proposes that if Sawyer comes to live with her for a year and participates in the events (ex. debutante balls), Lillian would give Sawyer a quarter of a million dollars. This intrigues Sawyer because she wants to be able to pay for college. She also knows that her dad's family lives near her grandmother's family, so she wants to find out who her dad is because her mom has been rather secretive about that. She doesn't know who he is, but there are a few wealthier families who gather regularly, and Sawyer knows that he is a part of that. Sawyer’s mom was pregnant in high school, and her father was never part of her life, but Sawyer thinks that going back to where her mother grew up will help her discover her father’s identity. This and money for college being her only goals, she still gets caught up in trouble because of complicated relations between her family and their friends. Some significant things that are included in the book are kidnapping, theft, and framing.

    It has a unique format, switching between two points in time. Most of the story takes place in the nine months leading up to April 15, and the two points in time eventually merge. The beginning of the story has Sawyer exploring her life in the new world of her grandmother’s. However, the future takes place in a jail. This format adds quite a bit of suspense and makes the book much more interesting because you slowly get bits of information about how they ended up in the jail, but you never know the full story until the end. This book was super engaging and suspenseful. In conclusion, I would recommend it to anyone who is up for an intriguing mystery full of family drama.


-Lisa


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