The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about
murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an
exclusive New England prep school.
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful,
wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly--a
lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory
and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case
as closed.
Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and
progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she
recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying
and punishing the real killer.
Compulsively readable, Lili Anolik's debut novel combines the verbal
dexterity of Marisha Pessl's Special Topic in Calamity Physics and the
haunting atmospherics and hairpin plot twists of Megan Abbott's Dare
Me.