History Literature / LieWithMe

* ChekhovsArmory: There are multiple objects that become important as the book progresses. The cloth and the spanner Paul finds in the truck, the bottles of lye and the 'Let Zeus blow your mind' t-shirt are among them.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Alice killed Jasmine.]]

* ChivalrousPervert: Paul likes to think he's this, but his thoughts about women and girls - especially Alice and Andrew's teenage daughters - are anything but chivalrous. He also barely remembers the names of women he slept with, including a Dutch woman he pulled in Greece, and Andrew's sister.

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Alice. And to a lesser extent, Andrew, as he helped cover up Jasmine's death and Louis' rape of Laura Cratchett.]]

* MamaBear: Louis might be a difficult teenager, but Alice is still willing to protect him [[spoiler:even if it means covering for him when he gets drunk and rapes a girl. Admittedly, this is partly to get revenge on Paul.]]

** A crossword in the paper is based around ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood'' and Paul attempts to flirt with Alice and impress her by quoting lines from the play.

''Lie With Me'' is a thriller by Sabine Durrant, published in 2016. Set in London and Greece, it's narrated by Paul Morris, a down-on-his-luck chancer and serial womaniser who runs into Andrew Hopkins, an old friend from university, in a London bookshop. Andrew invites him to a dinner party, where he meets widowed lawyer Alice Mackenzie. Determined to get it on with Alice and replace her late husband Harry, Paul inveigles his way into a holiday on the Greek island of Pyros, where Alice, Andrew, his wife Tina and their children are spending one last holiday before Circe's House, their holiday home, is demolished to make way for a new resort. It's also the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Jasmine, a teenage girl who was last seen alive in Greece, and Alice has been running a campaign to find her, dead or alive.

* ChivalrousPervert: Paul likes to think he's this, but his thoughts about women and girls - especially Alice and Andrew's teenage daughters - are anything but chivalrous.

* IfYouDoAnythingToHurtHer: Both Andrew and Tina beg Paul not to hurt Alice, as she's pretty fragile after the death of her husband. [[spoiler:It also turns out that Alice said the same thing to Paul when he was going out with Florrie, because she knew Florrie was vulnerable and easily hurt.]]

''Lie With Me'' is a thriller by Sabine Durrant, published in 2016. Set in London and Greece, it's narrated by Paul Morris, a down-on-his-luck chancer and serial womaniser who runs into Andrew Hopkins, an old friend from university, in a London bookshop. Andrew invites him to a dinner party, where he meets widowed lawyer Alice Mackenzie. Determined to get it on with Alice and replace her late husband Harry, Paul inveigles his way into a holiday on the Greek island of Pyros, where Alice and her friends are spending one last holiday before Circe's House, their holiday home, is demolished to make way for a new resort. It's also the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Jasmine, a teenage girl who was last seen alive in Greece, and Alice has been running a campaign to find her, dead or alive.

** A crossword in the paper is based around Theatre/UnderMilkWood and Paul attempts to flirt with Alice and impress her by quoting lines from the play.

** A crossword in the paper is based around Literature/UnderMilkWood and Paul attempts to flirt with Alice and impress her by quoting lines from the play.

** Paul compares Laura to Music/RitaOra.

* RapeAsDrama: Laura Cratchett, the Geordie girl Paul meets on the bus to Pyros, is raped on a night out and Paul is later accused of the rape, not helped by some nasty comments Paul makes about the scantily-clad girls he sees in town. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that it was actually Louis who raped her.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Paul could give the Boy Who Cried Wolf a run for his money. His habit of lying about things, such as a book deal that never was or the time of his flight, ends up seriously biting him in the arse. [[spoiler:Which is what Alice was planning.]]

Then everything starts to go horribly wrong...and Paul's past starts to catch up with him.