Alrighty, let's try again.
This time, I'm going to nominate
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. While the book is told in the third person, I think it qualifies as that nebulous concept the unreliable third person narrator, as it starts off, "Whether
Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves." The issue of the truthfulness of the testimonies of the various witnesses to the event also fits in with the notion of lies and misdirections. There's a famous film and I see there's also a recent series which is available at Amazon Prime.
From Wikipedia:
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Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, it is about a group of female students at an Australian girls' boarding school who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. The novel was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was reprinted by Penguin in 1975. It is widely considered by critics to be one of the best Australian novels.
Although the events depicted in the novel are entirely fictional, it is framed as though it is a true story, corroborated by ambiguous pseudohistorical references. Its irresolute conclusion has sparked significant public, critical, and scholarly analysis, and the narrative has become a part of Australia's national folklore as a result.
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Amazon CA $14.99 | Audible | OverDrive
198 pp.