Description
'I think it was one of us,' Walter says - 'We had the perfect opportunity. Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it.'
The last thing Hallie and her drama classmates expect to find on a high school scavenger hunt is a dead body. In a town with a population of about thirty-six, no one has experience with murder investigations, but now everyone's asking who killed Ms Lovelace.
The drama kids thought they were the only people nerdy enough to be at school on a Sunday. When they learn that Adam Tolentino, football star, drama-club nemesis and the cutest boy in school, was there too, Hallie is given the task of finding out what he knows but she soon learns there's more to Adam than meets the eye.
Although still grieving her favourite teacher, Hallie knows the show must go on. Managing a musical and a murder investigation is a lot, but Hallie and her friends won't give up on Ms Lovelace or each other.
Review
From Australian author, Meg Gatland-Veness, this is page-turning murder mystery set around the drama production team. And wow, I didn’t see the huge twist at the end!
The drama crew are five friends who are going to school on the weekend to rehearse for the upcoming musical. But then they discover the body of their musical’s director, the young and lovely Ms Lovelace.
Who could have done it? Was it one of them?
The story is told through the eyes of Hallie, whose life seems fairly normal. She has a mum, a dad and a brother and dreams of leaving their small country town and performing live in musicals in the city.
Her best friend and next door neighbour, Walter, is the son of the local police officer and takes it upon himself to find the guilty party, even if it is one of them.
When we find out that Ms Lovelace came to town because she was on the run from an abusive partner, and he has tracked her down, it seems like an open and shut case, right? But no...
Will they find the murderer before someone becomes the next victim?
Full of twists and turns, a hot love interest, the musical that must go on, and the realisation that one of them could be a murderer, this is a great murder mystery that will have you guessing until the end. And I guarantee that your guesses will have been wrong!
Best suited to readers aged 13 to 17 who love a murder mystery.
