My rating: 3 of 5 stars
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This was a decent book and I had no trouble reading to the very end of the epilogue. The writing was skillful, but the whole thing felt a bit bloodless, a bit anemic. The murder victim herself was fairly unlikable, not an excuse for not caring, but making it more difficult to be interested in the investigation. A young, privileged woman is found dead in her dorm room, having obviously recently given birth. The baby is nowhere to be found.
There are some good details: faculty who make the people around them uncomfortable, a mysterious sorority that seems to possess more than its share of mean girls, dark tunnels under the campus, a potential blackmail plot involving the art instructor, and the involvement of the intern, Madeline, in many of these aspects of the whole mess. Of course, because this is an exclusive school for the wealthy, platoons of lawyers descend on the campus and the police department and despite that, between Madeline and the two detectives on the case, they uncover things rather easily.
I read for plot mostly. The whole “where's the baby?” question was the longest lasting issue. But everyone seemed awfully calm about that, like they had somehow been assured that everything would work out for the best. The main characters seemed more tired than anything else.
Not bad, but I won't be actively looking for more from this author. Three stars is kind of a big baggy category for me, holding a number of books that I neither love nor hate. Kind of the limbo in my book universe.
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