The big task, however, lies in uncovering who would have gone to the extent of killing to protect the same from being revealed. The students who were together with the slain victim were considered high profile, and each seemed to have heard secrets that would ruin their reputation. It seems that the motive of the murder could be connected to secrets that Simon was about to release the next day. However, there is a possibility in which the killer could have come from outside. These facts make the four of those that walked out suspects to the murder but pointing out who was responsible becomes the hustle. The investigations reveal that he had scheduled to disclose a number of secrets for all the four students that were with him in detention. It is only Simon that never walks out of detention, and a more in-depth look into his death seems to raise significant questions classifying his death as a murder. Simon is considered an outcast and the creator of a renowned gossip app at their school while cooper is an athlete and an all-star baseball pitcher. Their characters and lives are different where Addy is a beauty and also a homecoming princess, Nate is on probation for dealing drugs.īrown is a brain bound for Yale and is never seen with any account of breaking the rules. The mysterious killing leaves a lot of questions unanswered meaning that someone among the group was responsible for the murder.Īt Bayview high walk, five students walk into detention on a Monday afternoon. One of Us is Lying gives an account of five students who walked into detention, but only four manage to leave alive.

She also has othered other books, and all of them received great recognition from different authors and readers for their high level of originality and creativity. Karen McManus’s book One Of Us Is Lying has been translated into over thirty-eight languages. She uses the skills learned from her studies in coming up with fake news to create her novels. The award-winning author is a holder of a master’s degree in journalism graduating from the Northern University of Massachusetts. McManus is a young adult writer and a New York Bestselling author.

One of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus