Set in the aspirational world of the Ivy-League,Β this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Liarβs Beach sees the return of iconic detective Holiday Proctor and her childhood friend Linden,Β as they work to uncover a mysterious murder on campus.
They did some bad things.
More than a year after childhood friends Michael Linden and HolidayΒ PoirotΒ solved a headline-making murder on Marthaβs Vineyard, Lindenis ready to start over as a freshman at Harvardβand, he hopes, to reunite with his old girlfriend, Greer. But just as things start to heat up between them, a friend is found dead in Greerβs dorm, Hemlock House.
The police believe the death is the result of an overdose, but Linden suspects thereβs more to the story. The victim was wearing Greerβs clothes and sleeping in Greerβs bed when she died . . . and Greer has a long list of enemies. It makes Linden wonder: Was this a case of mistaken identity? Was someone trying to kill Greer? Is she in danger? Is he?
Nearly everyone on campus has something to hideβand some mysteries are better left buried. . . .