Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, July 12th, 2022

Format: ebook

Pages: 432

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder.

April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.

Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder. 

My review:

Thank you, Simon and Schuster Canada for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: campus thrillers like The Maidens.
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When Hannah starts university at Oxford, she becomes quick friends with her roommate, April. But when April is murdered during her first year, this traumatizes Hannah. In the present, Hannah is married and pregnant, but can’t shake the feeling that she missed something during the trial, and the wrong man went to jail.
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Quite a few things worked well for this book. I liked the before and after timeline as we pieced together what happened to April. I also liked the ending; I was completely engaged for the last 30%.
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The book did seem a bit long and the middle dragged, and Hannah seemed a bit annoying at times, but overall I enjoyed this mystery.
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CW: murder, pregnancy, alcohol and drug use, bullying and peer pressure, harassment and assault.