num_pages: 320
description: Relocating to Venice upon completing his university education, Adam Woods becomes the personal assistant to a famous elderly expatriate novelist, whose biography Adam secretly pens before the eccentric writer discovers him and launches a psychological contest to determine how the biography will end. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Lying Tongue
titlecomplete: The Lying Tongue
genres: Books About Books, Mystery, Gothic, Italy, Suspense, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 675
places: Venice
publisher: Atria