The Liar

Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.

Stephen Fry''s breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.

''Hilarious'' Literary Review

''Sublime'' Cosmopolitan