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Can you kill someone for secrets!??

Finally, i read a book that's in my favourite genre; Crime-Thriller-Investigation. Read Karen M. McManus' One of us is lying recently and oh boy, it was gripping and intense! It has a simple backdrop; 5 students are put in detention; Bronwyn- the geek, Addy- the princess, Cooper- the sports star, Nate- one misstep away from life of crime or the bad boy and Simon- the outsider. The story starts pretty early as they all got caught by Mr. Avery for possessing cellphones during his class and hence the detention. By the end of detention, four walks out alive while Simon doesn't. Who killed Simon? and how? All of them are suspects and the investigators conclude its no accident. Do they make the bad boy as the obvious outlier and scapegoat to the murder or is there anything else? What happened next? that's the blurb about this story. I was excited for this as 1. I love crimes, i mean genre. 2. This is my first crime novel and it lived up to the expectations I had. I juggled be...