What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena. Pamela Dorman Books, Viking, 2024. Adult fiction. Mystery.Set in Fairhill, Vermont, this thriller involves a small community and its school. When a teen is found dead in a field, everyone is a suspect. Students, parents, teachers, administration, neighbors, the people at the local Home Depot, and just about everyone are suspicious and suspect. Many help narrate the story, even the dead teen.
Lapena has become a prolific author of "surburban paranoia" as Ruth Ware describes the writing style. She looks under the rocks of happy family life, picture perfect suburban neighbors, and award winning schools to find mystery and intrigue. Names of characters are right out of current baby naming books. Texts, phone calls, journal entries, and good old fashioned hearsay push the narrative. But, who is trust worthy and who is the culprit? It's hard to put down a Lapena novel as she weaves all the elements into her work and ties it up at the end.
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