A title can do a great deal of work before the first chapter begins, and The Liar’s Daughter is a fine example: it announces inheritance, deceit and a young narrator caught between the two. Shelved with teen and young adult fiction, it is the listing that brings Megan Cooley Peterson to this page.
The book has found a genuine audience. Several hundred listeners have rated the recording and the score has held comfortably above four stars, which for young adult suspense is a dependable sign that the pacing works and the ending lands.
We hold no verified biographical detail for this author, and rather than fill that gap with invention we will let the work stand on its own. On the evidence of its reception, it is a book that finds its readers.