4.5 stars - I received an early copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
CW: domestic violence/abuse, suicide, murder, depression
Summer 2019, tragedy struck Westmont Prep when a game at an abandoned house in the woods ended with two students dead. Since that night, four more people have gone back to the old house to kill themselves on the train tracks: three students and one teacher...only the teacher survived. The same teacher accused of murder.
A year later, a wildly successful podcast has come out chronicling the murders and theories about the game they played that night, The Man in the Mirror. Many people already had suspicions about the murders and what really happened that night, but once the famous podcast host is killed, a group including a reporter, a forensic reconstructionist, a criminal profiler, and a small-town cop dive deep into the secrets of the school to find out what really happened that night.
You had me at boarding school mystery 😍
I went into this book thinking it would be more along the lines of a ghost story but I am so happy to be wrong.
The Suicide House jumps between present day, the summer of 2019 and a unknown person’s journal entries. The journal entries were the perfect additional to make this story a true mystery. Throughout the whole book, I was convinced the journal belonged to one of two people...and I was wrong. The twist was a legitimate one and it was so refreshing to read a thriller that wasn’t super predictable. Or predictable at all for me...everything we come to find out honestly came as a huge surprise to me.
I will definitely be going back and reading more Charlie Donlea books.
CW: domestic violence/abuse, suicide, murder, depression
Summer 2019, tragedy struck Westmont Prep when a game at an abandoned house in the woods ended with two students dead. Since that night, four more people have gone back to the old house to kill themselves on the train tracks: three students and one teacher...only the teacher survived. The same teacher accused of murder.
A year later, a wildly successful podcast has come out chronicling the murders and theories about the game they played that night, The Man in the Mirror. Many people already had suspicions about the murders and what really happened that night, but once the famous podcast host is killed, a group including a reporter, a forensic reconstructionist, a criminal profiler, and a small-town cop dive deep into the secrets of the school to find out what really happened that night.
You had me at boarding school mystery 😍
I went into this book thinking it would be more along the lines of a ghost story but I am so happy to be wrong.
The Suicide House jumps between present day, the summer of 2019 and a unknown person’s journal entries. The journal entries were the perfect additional to make this story a true mystery. Throughout the whole book, I was convinced the journal belonged to one of two people...and I was wrong. The twist was a legitimate one and it was so refreshing to read a thriller that wasn’t super predictable. Or predictable at all for me...everything we come to find out honestly came as a huge surprise to me.
I will definitely be going back and reading more Charlie Donlea books.