Have you ever caught your spouse, business partner, friend or child in a cynical lie? How to recognize a lie and get closer to the truth? The book you are holding in your hands will tell you how to do this. “Catching a Liar” is an easy-to-learn popular science guide that will help you learn to understand a person’s thoughts by their facial expressions, decipher body language and recognize the manipulations of deception. Based on scientific research and examples from real life, the author explains how to recognize a lie and protect yourself. At the end of each chapter, practical tasks are given, the completion of which will allow you to effectively master new skills and catch liars. Lyudmila Martyanova is a profiler-verifier and polygraph examiner with extensive experience in the field of lie detection and profiling. She is a teacher-instructor and curator of training courses at the International Academy for the Study of Lies.