'The Lying Game': YA Series Based On Ruth Ware Book In Works At Amazon

EXCLUSIVE: As part of Prime Video’s continuing YA expansion, Amazon MGM Studios has put in development The Lying Game , a TV series adaptation of Ruth Ware ‘s novel. It is being written by Suzanne Heathcote ( The Thursday Murder Club , Killing Eve ) and executive produced by former veteran TV executives-turned-producers Ted Gold and Susan Rovner .

The Lying Game is a psychological YA thriller in which, years after being expelled from boarding school for a game of lies gone too far, four childhood friends are reunited and forced to confront the deadly secret they thought they’d buried forever.

Heathcote executive produces alongside Gold through his Good Trouble Entertainment, Rovner for her Aha Studios, and Ware.

Amazon has been looking to build on the success of its