
Brynn and Tripp’s candid, emotionally complex alternating first-person accounts enrich character while imparting immediacy and drive. Shortly thereafter, Brynn and her family relocated to Chicago, but now they’re back in Sturgis, and Brynn intends to use her re-enrollment at Saint Ambrose-and her internship-to uncover the thorny truth surrounding Mr. Though fingerprints from one of the trio were found on the murder weapon, the group was purportedly never suspected, and the case went cold. When Brynn was an eighth grader at Saint Ambrose prep school in Sturgis, Mass., three classmates, including Brynn’s estranged best friend, Tripp Talbot, went into the woods and stumbled across the corpse of the school’s popular new English teacher, William Larkin. More terrifying is that they might be closer than anyone thinks.Desperate for a win after she’s fired from her school newspaper and wait-listed by her dream college, Brynn Gallagher, 17, lands an internship at a true crime TV show by pitching a story from her own past in McManus’s (You’ll Be the Death of Me) most impressive mystery yet.

Larkin, and about her ex-best friend, Tripp Talbot.įour years ago someone got away with murder. Just like he hasn't forgotten that everything he told the police was a lie.ĭigging into the past is bound to shake up the present, and when Brynn begins to investigate what happened in the woods that day, she uncovers secrets that might change everything-about Saint Ambrose, about Mr. Tripp's friends have never forgotten what Tripp did for them that day, and neither has he. Larkin's murder-but instead, thanks to Tripp, they're now at the top of the Saint Ambrose social pyramid. Without his account of events, the other two kids might have gone down for Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex–best friend, Tripp Talbot, was one of them. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened.


Be sure to keep your friends close.and your secrets closer.įour years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher-a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery.
