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Four girls in a boarding school play a game- they lie for the fun of it. 15 years later they have shed their habit except for keeping the one secret that could ruin their lives. They get together once they get a text from Kate, the only one to stay in the town of Salten because bones were found. Isa is the narrator, and of course her 6 month old daughter Freya who seems to be the motivation for everything. I mean everything. Even I started rolling my eyes every time she wailed because she needed the boob. (I get it, I do, but I felt like the redundancy of her proof of love for her daughter was annoying.)
While their young lives were run by the lying game, the bulk of the book was centered on the big lie, the exposure, and The test of friendship. Anyway, the mystery of Ambrose's death had me guessing a few times at the beginning, and I was still kind of surprised at the end, so kudos on that. Apparently others figured it out before me, so don't go by my inability to Agatha it. And I did like the ending. I also liked that there wasn't the typical monologue given at the end by the nefarious murderer. We still find out what happened, but it seemed at bit more realistic.