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For years, we love reading crime stories or psychological thrillers.

Unsettling as they're, these fictions give us irresistible pleasure from the adrenaline swooshing through the bloodstream, not to mention the Hitchcockesque entertainment of decoding mystery.

It would be easy, and oh so helpful, for authors to stick to the theme of telling lies. My daughter finished One of Us is Lying not long ago. I just read None of This is True.  

All these books are destined to end with a maze twisted by the somewhat sickening knots of truths and untruths. All of which is to say, deception is an endless trick to make stories riveting. A bit frightening, perhaps. 

Luckily, we have more truths than lies in our real life. For me, at least.