Top-drawer entertainment from a modern master of mystery.” - Library Journal (Starred Review) Fans of Golden Age mysteries like Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night will love the book’s Oxford setting, while readers of trendy dark academia suspense novels, in the manner of Alex Michaelides’s The Maidens, will feel right at home. “Ware once again demonstrates her literary claim as the 21st century’s answer to Agatha Christie with this ingeniously crafted puzzler. The pages just turn themselves." - People Magazine Agent: Eve White, Eve White Literary (U.K.)."So many flawed friendships, so many promising red herrings. This showcases Ware’s gifts to the fullest.
Alternating past and present chapters build toward a gripping denouement as nicely chosen details bring each character vividly to life. The memories shared by mild-mannered doctor Hugh, mathematician Emily, and Ryan, who has suffered a stroke since their college years, call most of what she’s believed about April and her death into question. Fearing her testimony helped convict an innocent man, Hannah feels compelled to revisit the murder with the three Oxford friends that knew April best. Days after Neville dies in prison, a journalist emails her with evidence that calls the porter’s guilt into doubt. Ten years later, she’s living in Edinburgh, married to Will, and pregnant. Though Neville is later convicted of the murder, the crime, trial, and subsequent media furor upend Hannah’s life. Moments after Hannah sees college porter John Neville leaving their residence building, she finds April strangled. The two become best friends despite their differences and the unspoken attraction between Hannah and April’s boyfriend, Will. Hannah Jones’s Oxford University roommate, April Clarke-Cliveden, is everything Hannah isn’t: wealthy, sophisticated, sexually adventurous, and occasionally cruel. This exceptional psychological thriller from Ware ( One by One) probes how much one can trust others-and one’s self.
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