Little Black Lies

By: Sandra Block

Narrated by: Kara Bartell

She helps people conquer their demons. But she has a few of her own...

In the halls of the psychiatric ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman is a resident in training, dedicated to helping troubled patients. However, she has plenty of baggage of her own. When Zoe becomes obsessed with questions about her own mother's death, the truth remains tauntingly out of reach, locked away within her nightmares of an uncontrollable fire. And as her adoptive mother loses her memory to dementia, the time to find the answers is running out.

As Zoe digs deeper, she realizes that the danger is not just in her dreams but is now close at hand. And she has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most. Because what she can't remember just might kill her.

Little Black Lies is about madness and memory - and the dangerous, little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

suspense until the end...

Loved the story, characters and suspense! It left me wanting more...can't wait for the next book!

Interesting storyline, tough to put down

I actually picked this book up by accident, intending to read a book of the same title for a book club selection, but I'm so glad I stumbled upon this one instead. This novel is a well-constructed psychological thriller, revolving around dark secrets and lies.

Suffering from a nightmare of the night her biological mother died in a house fire and faced with treating a patient who murdered her own mother, Zoe sets out on a search for more information about her childhood and the mother she barely remembers.

This book was written with the perfect steady pace of twists, nibbles of insight into the truth, and a good amount of humor. There is a lot of build up in the beginning that some may feel is a bit slow, but I felt it was appropriate to build the foundation for the reader as to why this character needs to know more about her past and why something might trigger her persistent search. I hung on to every word until the very end. I'm excited to read future novels from this author.

It's the DSM Five not DSM-V

The book was fine....entertaining enough and with good narration...but every time the narrator read the title of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Five (the Roman numeral is spelled out when referring to the title in speech) as the DSM Vee It made me crazy. Where were the editors or fact-checkers? Argh!

Good read

I was captivated by the plot it was fun the psychological term were on point. I do have to admit that when the reader kept saying DSM V as in the letter V and not the roman numero V it drove me crazy. However I like tge twist and surprising ending along with the characters.

DSM V - ugh

I couldn’t figure out if the protagonist, Zoe was written to be fairly unintelligent or if the narrators voice made it sound like it. Her tone of voice often did not match the serious or even common dialogue. And what bothered me the most is the a resident in psychology or psychiatry would know that it is the DSM 5 not DSM V. I got annoyed every time.