“The Lying Game” is heading to the small screen. Entertainment One (eOne) and The Gotham Group are teaming up for the adaptation of Ruth Ware’s New York Times-bestseller, Deadline reports. The psychological mystery sounds like a grown-up “Pretty Little Liars.”

Published this July, the novel kicks off “after a woman walking her dog in an idyllic coastal village finds something sinister in the local estuary before three young women in London receive a mysterious text message from one of their friends,” the source writes. “The women had been at boarding school together and were known for playing the ‘lying game,’ telling lies to fellow boarders and teachers, before they were expelled following the death of the school’s eccentric art teacher.”

Ware’s books are proving to be hot commodities in Hollywood. Reese Witherspoon is developing a film based on “In a Dark, Dark Wood” with New Line, and “Eagle Eye” and “Insomnia” screenwriter Hillary Seitz is signed on to pen an adaptation of “The Woman in Cabin 10” for CBS Films and The Gotham Group.

“Ruth is a master storyteller,” said Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, founder and CEO of The Gotham Group. “Everything she writes feels so cinematic and the characters are so rich. We are honored and thrilled she is entrusting us with another one of her edge-of-your-seat thrillers.”

When asked what inspired her to write “The Lying Game,” Ware has said, “Part of it was definitely my childhood love of boarding school stories. I loved all the glamour of it, the ‘apple pie’ beds, the midnight feasts, the secret language of dorms and splasheries and cubies. But even at that age I could tell that the reality of being shut up 24/7 with your school friends might not be quite as rosy as depicted… and that fascination with the sharp edge of the fantasy definitely fed into ‘The Lying Game,’” she explained.