I Have Some Questions for You

Bodie Kane teaches film and hosts a podcast, and she has built a comfortable life by not looking back. Her adolescence was marked by a family tragedy, and she spent four mostly unhappy years at the Granby School, a boarding school in New Hampshire. In the spring of her senior year, her roommate Thalia Keith was murdered.

The school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, was convicted of the killing, and people still argue about the case online. Bodie has always preferred to leave it alone. Then Granby invites her to return and teach a course, and she is pulled toward the case and the flaws she now sees in it.

She starts asking whether the school and the police rushed to convict Omar and ignored other suspects. If they did, the real killer may still be free. The deeper she digs, the more she suspects she was less of an outsider at Granby than she believed, and that in 1995 she may have known something that could have solved the case.

The book is a literary mystery with a campus setting and a present-day frame, told around one woman's return to a past she tried to bury. It reads as an investigation and as a reckoning with memory, and the pull of the case drives it forward.