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About Leslie Bradford-Scott

Leslie is a bestselling author who writes about family secrets and the long aftershocks of a messy past. She dropped out of school at fifteen, supported her kids by selling cars, became a pilot at forty-five, and started a personal-care company in her laundry room that grew into a multimillion-dollar business.

The Story Behind The Liar’s Playbook

My memoir combines two investigations:

First, I examine my father’s alleged connections to a secret life as an informant for the United States government.

Second, I explore how family myths echo across generations — shaping who we become, what we believe, and which stories we cling to when the truth feels too dangerous to face.

It digs into the lies we're raised with and what happens when we refuse to accept them.

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After starting over more times than I can count, from selling cars to building an international personal care brand by cold-calling gift shops with fifty-pound cases of bath salts and nearly going bankrupt more than once, I thought I understood reinvention.


Then my mother handed me my father’s hidden manuscript.

Turns out, some stories demand to be told whether you’re ready or not.

the liars playbook

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What I Write

(and Who I Write For)

I write for readers who know that family truth is rarely straightforward, and that resilience often shows up as sarcasm.

I believe that the most interesting stories live in the gray area between what we’re told and what actually happened.

And I worry for anyone convicted on eye-witness testimony alone.

For me, memory is like a dream. A strange mix of truth and emotional residue.

Photos are receipts.

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Life Beyond the Page

When I’m not working on my next writing project, you’ll find me:

playing guitar

kayaking & swimming

mountain biking

travelling

spending time with my family

cross-country skiing

Welcome to my world, where even the memoir comes with an unreliable narrator — because sometimes that’s the only honest way to tell the truth.

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