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One of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Best Crime Novels of 2020
One of USA Today's Best Books 2020

"[A] hypnotic debut. . . .[An] uncommonly clever whodunit."--New York Times Book Review

Perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and The Secret History, The Truants is a seductive, unsettling, and beautifully written debut novel of literary suspense--a thrilling exploration of deceit, first love, and the depths to which obsession can drive us.

People disappear when they most want to be seen.

Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat gray skies of East Anglia for one reason: to be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr. Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess's thinking on life, love, and Agatha Christie. Swept up in Lorna's thrall, Jess falls in with a tightly knit group of rule-breakers--Alec, a courageous South African journalist with a nihilistic streak; Georgie, a seductive, pill-popping aristocrat; and Nick, a handsome geologist with layers of his own.

But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken, until a tragedy shatters their friendships and love affairs, and reveals a terrible secret. Soon Jess must face the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life?

An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of January
A USA Today Must-Read Book of Winter
An Observer Book of the Year (UK)
A Marie Claire Top 5 Christmas Read (UK)
A Times Best New Crime Novel (UK)
A Guardian Top 10 Golden Age Detective Novel
An Irish Times Best Debut of 2019
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Great story....I did not like how it ended. I felt as if I had been left adrift.

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Loved this book. If you love The Secret History and things set in academia this is for you. Atmospheric, interesting characters, beautiful prose and well oaxed plot.

WOW!!!

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I couldn't stop listening to this book, beautiful compelling. But the end was a disappointment. Not worthy of Christie, who it references.

Hinged on ending

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More a character study. Coming of age - maturing of a girl. Also if you have strong feelings about abortion this is not the book for you.

Not as Described

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This reads like a work of fine literature, but pedestrian teenage angst is what it is really about. There really are no surprises.
The protagonist is really a babe in the woods. However, Kate Weinberg writes so evocatively that I would be happy to listen to her next book.

Great writing cannot make up for the story

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