However, the most compelling element of McManus’ storytelling is neither the crime nor the victim but the trauma of the survivors left behind.

As the clues build momentum, so will readers’ desire to plow through the novel to see how it all ties together. In her signature style, McManus ( One of Us Is Lying) never gives readers a moment to relax, drawing out suspects and secrets in rapid succession. Nothing More to Tell is another suspenseful page turner from bestselling author Karen M. Brynn and Tripp are surrounded by suspects, including their own family members, and it begins to look like everyone at Saint Ambrose has a motive for murder. Larkin’s past collide with Brynn’s investigation. Larkin’s death approaches, Tripp is still haunted by the lies he told, and he’s drinking more than ever. One of those students is Brynn’s former best friend, Tripp Talbot, who ended their friendship in humiliating fashion. Her first assignment is digging into the four-year-old unsolved murder of William Larkin, a Saint Ambrose English teacher whose body was discovered in the woods by three students.

In an attempt to repair her reputation and impress college admissions officers, Brynn lands a coveted internship at “Motive,” a buzzy true crime TV show. After a scandal in Chicago got her kicked off the student newspaper, Brynn is now starting over at her old private school, Saint Ambrose. Update: The text of this review has been adjusted for clarity.High school senior Brynn Gallagher has recently moved from Chicago back to her Massachusetts hometown, a welcome if difficult change. Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio. Main characters cue as white the supporting cast is ethnically diverse. The central whodunit spirals into myriad tertiary puzzles, making for a serpentine read rife with convincing red herrings and ground-shifting reveals. Brynn and Tripp’s candid, emotionally complex alternating first-person accounts enrich character while imparting immediacy and drive. Shortly thereafter, Brynn and her family relocated to Chicago, but now they’re back in Sturgis, and Brynn intends to use her re-enrollment at Saint Ambrose-and her internship-to uncover the thorny truth surrounding Mr. Though fingerprints from one of the trio were found on the murder weapon, the group was purportedly never suspected, and the case went cold. When Brynn was an eighth grader at Saint Ambrose prep school in Sturgis, Mass., three classmates, including Brynn’s estranged best friend, Tripp Talbot, went into the woods and stumbled across the corpse of the school’s popular new English teacher, William Larkin. Desperate for a win after she’s fired from her school newspaper and wait-listed by her dream college, Brynn Gallagher, 17, lands an internship at a true crime TV show by pitching a story from her own past in McManus’s (You’ll Be the Death of Me) most impressive mystery yet.

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