"One of us is lying" de Karen McManus

"One of us is lying" de Karen McManus
Ed. Penguins Books 2017. Pages 368.

Résumé: Pay close attention and you might solve this.

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.
Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?
Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

La 7 de la page 7: "Mr. Avery points towards the sink at the back of the room, it counter crowded with beakers and petri dishes." 

Premier roman de Karen McManus. On est clairement dans un roman jeunesse qui s'adresse à des adolescents aussi bien dans le style que dans l'intrigue. Si il y a parfois quelques faiblesses dans le texte, on ne peut que constater que cette histoire fonctionne plutôt bien. Une salle de retenue, un mort et quatre suspects qui auraient plus de raisons de tuer la victime que ce qu'il n'y paraît aux premiers abords. Si les secrets de chacun sont quelque peu prévisibles, on passe tout de même un bon moment. Cela nous permet également d'entrer dans la vie de ces jeunes et de leur quotidien dans ce lycée américain. Les personnages sont attachants et si le dénouement est un peu trop prévisible, on reste sur un très bon thriller jeunesse.

Extrait: "A sex tape. A pregnancy scare. Two cheating scandals. And that's just this week's update. If all hyou knew of Bayview High was Simon Kelleher's gossip app, you'd wonder how anyone found the time to go to class."