Locust Lane definitely starts out on the slow side. It took me awhile to get into the flow of the story, which is told from the perspective of five different parents affected by the murder of a young woman. Three are parents of children who are involved with the victim, one is the mother of the victim, and the other is a witness whose life has gone downhill after the drug overdose of his own daughter. The best parts of the story are watching the loyalties of the parents change as they learn more about that night and events leading up to it, as well as the fact that Amidon creates so many possibilities for who the murderer actually could be. He definitely plays up stereotypes. The kid from a foreign country is quickly pegged by police as the guilty party. There is also definitely classism too, with a kid from a rich, connected family whose parents have become well acquainted with covering up his bad behavior. After a great middle and a party involved I didn’t expect (but feel like I should have) the ending kind of slumped for me again. It wasn’t necessarily an unreasonable one, but at the same time it didn’t really feel satisfying and also left some loose ends for me. The multiple POVs allow the reader to gain knowledge piecemeal, as characters discover it - instead of knowing everything from one point of view, but this also means that stories don’t necessarily move sequentially. There are points where a perspective repeats events from a previous perspective, but that perspective has moved far enough past that event that readdressing it feels jarring instead of enlightening. This story was great at keeping the reader guessing, but still feels kind of unpolished.