A locked room scenario resulting in a dead body – but just who is lying?
One of us is lying – the blurb
Five students walk into detention. Only four come out alive.
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.
Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond.
Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime.
Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.
And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won’t ever talk about any of them again.
He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it’s no accident. All of them are suspects.
Everyone has secrets, right?
What really matters is how far you’ll go to protect them.
This ain’t no Poirot
I’d previously read The Cousins by McManus so had an idea of what to expect when I picked up the book. A furious paced page turner told from many perspectives where everyone was a potential suspect. Naturally I raced through it, as did my teenage daughter when I passed it on to her. Although she did leave it out in the rain on holiday and had to contend with a soggy last few chapters! McManus delivers a classic locked room scenario in an ultra modern setting. Poirot would be all at sea with blog posts, mobile phones and movie streaming. Looking back now some two weeks later the book hasn’t stayed with me though the way some books do. It’s not quite A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (which I loved) but it ain’t far off.