Young Adult, Mystery Novel

What do you get when you put a queen bee, teacher’s pet, stellar athlete, stoner, music geek, and outsider into a dinner party? A murder mystery of course! When each of these vibrant characters is invited to a scholarship meal, someone has locked them inside a room with a bomb and a syringe full of poison, with a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill or everyone dies.

Amber Prescott is one of these individuals who wishes to escape with her life and save her classmates. As they connect the dots between what these unlikely characters have in common, they learn the events which may have brought them together in this horrible situation and they soon learn everyone has a dark secret. Diana Urban leaves readers on the edge of their seat with every chapter as you uncover more about these unruly characters, the mysteries of their pasts and what led them to this deadly dinner and possibly their demise…

This novel is reminiscent of Karn McManus’ beloved One of Us Is Lying. Simon, the outcast, is the creator of a high school gossip app. After his untimely demise in detention, investigators find his death was not an accident. However, there are a few possible suspects, all victims of Simon’s online gossip forums with dark secrets to hide. How will the brains, beauty, criminal, and athlete come together to solve the mystery despite being suspects themselves?

Want more mystery? Explore fantastic television series such as Unsolved Mysteries, a reboot of the original 1987-97 long series detailing one unsolved case per episode, with immersive accounts of horrific violence and spine-chilling mysteries. Could you help these families, detectives, and law enforcement solve a mystery?