Nine Liars

This novel operates between two distinct timelines.  The first being on June 23, 1995 when nine students who are in their last week at Cambridge University, England go to Merryweather, a country mansion owned by one of them for a week of partying. Two of those students are murdered.

In the second timeline, set in the present in America, Stevie Bell, who is an able student detective, is in her last year at an elite American school.  She contrives to get to England. Can she solve the murder at Merryweather?

This is a very well-constructed and well written mystery packed with detail including realistic police interview records and text messages between the friends. However, for this reviewer, the characterisation was quite weak and some vital parts of the story were only revealed in the last two chapters. At 445 pages, this is quite an investment of time and some readers may lose interest earlier on.