Was hoping to save at least a couple of these books until we go on holiday in June, but that is not going to happen now. Have to re-read in Malaga!
I think I have enjoyed the last 2 less than the 1st 3; this one is really quite hard work; about 2 groups of schoolgirls in a posh Dublin school one of whom (very obviously) murders a posh lad from the nearby boys school in, I think, the eponymous ‘secret place’ where they meet up (I say ‘very obviously’ because the killer could be an outsider or stranger). So the question becomes – which one?
The solution is unscrambled over a huge number of pages and you really have to be more up than I am with bits of modern technology to follow what is going on. They all have mobile phones which get swapped around and then the SIM cards swapped, so a chunk of the plot involves phones found and messages interrogated, but whose phone and who was sending the message.
There are 2 groups of 4 girls, one lot quite interesting and focussed on by the author and one oppositional lot appalling 'skanky sluts', to use the sort of language that predominates in the book.
One of the interesting lot is Holly, who appeared in 475 with her Dad who also appears in the book, but in a fatherly rather than police role.
I have written at length, so probably enjoyed it more than I thought, although it is a long book.
Again, some similarity to Donna Tart’s famous book, the title of which continues to escape me (I have googled and it is ‘The Secret History’, so maybe a definite reference here in the title).
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