The Telling of Lies

The Telling of Lies
First edition
Author Timothy Findley
Country Canada
Language English
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
1986
ISBN 0140241159
Preceded by Not Wanted on the Voyage 
Followed by Stones 

The Telling of Lies is a 1986 novel by Timothy Findley. A murder mystery, the novel centres on Vanessa Van Horne, a landscape architect who witnesses the apparent murder of pharmaceutical mogul Calder Maddox at the seaside Aurora Sands Hotel in Maine.

Following the book's paperback publication in the United States in 1988, the novel won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989.