Jülie ☼♄ 's Reviews > All These Perfect Strangers

This was a good debut crime thriller involving some troubled young students in a University campus where certain activities and occupations get out of control and have them worried about consequences.
When the body of a young girl student is found police get involved and certain other students come under closer scrutiny...one in particular...dredging up past histories and threatening to incriminate them.
Guilty, or just guilty by association? These are questions we keep asking ourselves as the story progresses, never really sure who is a perpetrator, a victim of chance, or just a rogue crooked individual.
Tensions are high on the campus as some of the female fraternity start to lobby for better security, though they seem to garner little support for their cause.
When another body is soon discovered things start to get serious and fingers start pointing.
And so it goes, backwards and forwards between connecting stories past and present until the dots are all joined at the end...or are they?

The story didn't grab me the way I was expecting it to, I think I was expecting something altogether different going by the reviews I had read.
The story itself was good and I have no qualms about that, just my perception of it was changed because I had (admittedly) preconceived ideas about it due to all the hype...my fault...so I was expecting something more edge of your seat and nail biting.
I definitely wouldn't shelve this as a psychological thriller, a crime/thriller/mystery yes...also I would shelve it as Young Adult.

'A court of law will never find you innocent...just not guilty'.

I will look out for more future writing from this author all the same.
3★s

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my copy to read and review.