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I just finished book #3 in Mick Herron's "Slow Horses" series featuring MI5 agents who have screwed up royally. Instead of one unreliable narrator, you get a whole herd of them as the story is told from multiple POV's. These people lie/dissemble like they breathe & part of the fun is trying to figure out who is the "truthiest" (thank you, Stephen Colbert).
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What do you think? Can you think of examples of this? I remember a traumatic experience reading that classic unreliable narrator in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I couldn't read a book in the first person for years afterwards! Also, when you go to unlikable characters, may I suggest The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson?