Have you ever been framed for a crime you didn't commit? Four high schoolers in One of Us is Lying are accused of killing one of their classmates in detention. This book was written by Karen McManus. One of Us is Lying is Karen McManus’ debut novel. The genre of this book is mystery. Four teenagers at Bay View High,with hidden secrets, get caught up in a murder of one of the most hated people in school and band together to really find out who did it. Cooper, Nate, Bronwyn, and Addy are your typical high school stereotypes. Cooper, the athlete, Nate, the bad boy, Bronwyn, the brain, and Addy, the beauty. They all attend Bay View High, in present day. They all get into detention when phones are found in their backpacks. They are all suspicious …show more content…
Later, a post on About That pops up without warning. The message on everyone’s screen raised questions and concerns from the entire town. The message was from “the killer” saying he/she came up with the idea of killing Simon from dateline and that everyone hated Simon, he/she was just the only one with the guts to do something about it. Eventually another post pops up saying that they killed simon in detention and did feel bad watching him die and that they would have stopped it if they could. The next post is where the book takes a turn. The post reveals all the secrets of the four accused high schoolers. This presents them all with a motive. Bronwyn cheated on her chemistry exam to receive an A, Cooper took steroids to get better at baseball, Addy cheated on her boyfriend, and Nate sold drugs. “The Murder Club,” as they call those four, all received backlash, especially Addy who was humiliated by the whole school and her “perfect boyfriend,” Jake. All of these rumors are true except for Cooper’s who had a more telling secret that he kept to himself. Bronwyn and Nate soon become close friends. The murder investigation receives a lot of attention from national press. After a while Cooper’s true secret comes out when the police ask the students of Bayview about a Tumblr post “the killer” hasn't posted yet containing the information …show more content…
She knows she has to disprove the missing epipens found in his locker and the About That posts on his computer. She gets the whole gang together to come up with possible solutions. They lay out all the points they know about the case, and discover only one person connected to them all, Simon. Bronwyn finds a couple comments Simon posted on a article about a student shooting up a school saying that though he applauds their work, they did nothing and that they should try to think of something more creative. Cooper finds that Simon payed those cars to crash into one another. The last piece of the puzzle was Janae, Simon’s best friend. Addy has recently become friends with her. Cooper drove Addy to Janae’s house. When she stood face to face with Janae, they both exchanged looks of understanding. Suddenly, Janae started spilling the truth and crying simultaneously. She confessed to Simon telling her the whole plan, how he was going to kill himself, how he would pin it all on the four. Simon still needed someone to carry out his plan to be the fake “killer.” He called on Jake, Addy’s boyfriend at the time and told him about Addy’s cheating. He also told Jake he could get revenge on Addy by pinning a murder on her and ruining the rest of her life. Jake posted all the Tumblr posts and helped carry out the plan. Janae was supposed to place the EpiPens and replaced computer with Addy, for Jake’s revenge. Because Addy and Janae had become
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