One Of Us Is Lying
When five students file into detention at Bayview High — Bronwyn the overachiever, Addy the prom queen, Nate the criminal, Cooper the athlete, and Simon, the outcast who runs the school's notorious gossip app — only four walk out alive. Simon dies from an allergic reaction that looks less and less like an accident, and the police quickly zero in on the four students left in the room: each of them was about to be exposed by one of Simon's next posts, and each had a reason to want him silenced.
As the investigation drags on and the media descends, the four suspects are forced into uneasy alliance, piecing together what really happened even as the secrets Simon meant to reveal threaten to come out anyway — from each other, if not from him. Told in alternating first-person chapters, One of Us Is Lying is a fast-paced YA mystery about the personas built to survive high school and what happens when they start to crack.
Karen M. McManus's bestselling debut launched a series and was adapted into a television show, and it remains a touchstone of the modern YA thriller boom.
The homecoming princess whose picture-perfect image starts to crack under scrutiny.
The overachiever bound for Yale, drawn into the investigation despite having followed every rule.
The all-star baseball pitcher with his own reason to want Simon quiet.
A student on probation for dealing, already on the police's radar before Simon's death.
Runs Bayview High's gossip app and dies in detention under suspicious circumstances.