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The Currency of Small Lies
NGOZI ADEYEMI

“Every family keeps a ledger. Hers just has a body in it.”

The Currency of Small Lies

by Ngozi Adeyemi
Thriller·~4 hours reading·22 chapters
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About the book

When her brother-in-law disappears two weeks before a contested inheritance hearing, Bisi Okafor is the only one in the family who notices the lies are starting to overlap. A tense, slow-burn thriller about the small dishonesties that hold a wealthy Lagos family together — and the one that finally breaks it apart.

Why we published this

Ngozi's first thriller, and it shows none of the seams you'd expect from a literary novelist crossing genres. The plotting is ruthless; the family at the center of it is the real horror.

— Funke Adisa, Editorial Director

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About the author

Ngozi Adeyemi

Writes literary fiction about Lagos's middle class.

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Chapter One

The first lie was small enough to forgive: that the car had been at the mechanic's, not at the house on Kofo Abayomi. Bisi let it go because everyone's marriage had a car like that somewhere.

The second lie was about money, and money was never really about money in this family — it was about who got to keep pretending they hadn't noticed.

By the third lie she had started keeping a list, and a woman who keeps a list eventually has to do something with it.

The first chapter ends here.

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