secrets

Last week I read One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M McManus.

From GoodReads:

Pay close attention and you might solve this.

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.

Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.

Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.

Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.

Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.

And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.

Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon is dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

One Of Us Is Lying was called a hybrid of The Breakfast Club and Pretty Little Liars ... with a little bit of Ten Little Indians to make things interesting. What happens when five people enter detention, but only four people end-up walking back out again? Who’s guilty? Who’s innocent? And how will things change once everyone’s dark secrets begin to surface?

Does everyone have secrets? 

This is a great book for teens who like mysteries and thrillers. It should keep even the most clever sleuth guessing.