Vorab-Rezensenten

When beautiful senior Claire Harkness is found dead in her room ten days before graduation, Armitage Academy is shaken to its core. Everyone at the prestigious school finds their life upended because of the murder, from local police detective Matt Corelli to the headmaster Porter McLellan. And perhaps no one more so than Madeline Christopher, an intern in the English Department who finds herself at the center of the criminal case and must examine both her own motives for teaching at Armitage and the nature of the ties between the school’s students and the adults meant to guide them. As the case unravels, the dark intricacies of adolescent privilege at a powerful institution are exposed, and in the rush to the novel’s thrilling conclusion, both teachers and students emerge as suspects. In this smart and hauntingly atmospheric thriller, Charlotte Bacon builds a gripping story of a death where death should not occur, and not only infuses the book with page-turning suspense but also compels readers to re-think their assumptions about the lives of the young and entitled and their profoundly complicated relationships to the adults who try, and sometimes fail, to understand them.