THE MEADOWBROOK MURDERS by Jessica Goodman is an entertaining young adult thriller set at a New England boarding school where activities are underway to celebrate the beginning of a new school year. Yet, a murderer is on campus and adds a double homicide to the agenda, plunging the campus into a long nightmare.
Seniors rule the school the week before the underclassmen return to campus at Meadowbrook Academy. Amy is excited about spending the week with her best friend Sarah. From boathouse parties to soccer practice and hanging out with their boyfriends, these two besties are in for a week of fun until Amy wakes up and finds her best friend and boyfriend brutally murdered in their dorm room. How could Amy sleep through the massacre? And what is Amy hiding about that night? Liz is the school’s newspaper editor-in-chief, and she’s looking for a juicy story to land her a scholarship, but when Amy becomes her new roommate and Liz sees the aftermath of the traumatic experience through Amy’s eyes, she knows she has to make sure her reporting is fair to the victims. As Liz and Amy embark separately on uncovering secrets and following clues, Amy soon realizes Sarah hid a lot, and Liz is not sure who to trust, even Amy. Can they uncover the killer before he strikes again?
THE MEADOWBROOK MURDERS is a deliciously dark academia mystery set at a prestigious Connecticut boarding school where competition runs high, and jealousies destroy relationships. The students are privileged but unprotected from the gruesome murders of two classmates. The plot is well-developed with a lot of misleading clues and sketchy characters. From Amy’s boyfriend in town to the school’s chef, the stern headmaster, test cheaters, a suspicious coach, a student with a grudge, and an unknown admirer, the suspect possibilities are plenty and will keep readers guessing. The characters are skillfully portrayed, and the relationship drama is intriguing. The clues unfold in perfect tempo, and the academic setting provides the ambiance and ups the tension with underground tunnels, grainy surveillance footage, old buildings, boathouses, and dark pathways. THE MEADOWBROOK MURDERS will keep you eagerly turning the pages until the real villain is unveiled on this campus of horrors.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of They Wish They Were Us and The Counselors, comes a page-turning murder mystery set at a prestigious New England boarding school about the importance--and price--of telling the truth.Secrets don't die.It’s the first week of senior year at Meadowbrook Academy. For Amy and her best friend Sarah, that means late-night parties at the boathouse, bike rides through their sleepy Connecticut town, and the crisp beginning of a New England fall.Then tragedy strikes: Sarah and her boyfriend are brutally murdered in their dorm room. Now the week Amy has been dreaming about for years has turned into a nightmare, especially when all eyes turn to her as the culprit. She was Sarah’s only roommate, the only other person there when she died—or so she told the police to cover for her own boyfriend’s suspicious whereabouts. And even though they were best friends, with every passing day, Amy begins to learn that Sarah lied about a lot of things.
Liz, editor of the school newspaper and social outcast, is determined to uncover the truth about what happened on campus, in hopes her reporting will land a prestigious scholarship to college. As Liz dives deeper into her investigation, the secrets these murdered seniors never wanted out come to light. The deeper Liz digs, the messier the truth becomes – and with a killer still on campus, she can’t afford to make any mistakes. The Meadowbrook Murders is a gripping mystery about the inextricable way power, privilege, and secrets are linked, and how telling the truth can come at a deadly price.
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