Good Girls Lie

Goode girls don't lie... Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous. In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove her to suicide. But look closely...because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened. J.T. Ellison's pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets.

I have thoroughly enjoyed previous books by this talented thriller writer, and this one was no exception! Set in a private girl’s boarding school (named Good hence the play on words title), we follow a new student as well as the headmistress and a not named observer. Some strange things are going on as Ash tries to fit into the school setting and make friends. The author does a great job with setting us up to decipher who is "good" and who is not. As you waffle back and forth on this, little plot twists keep being thrown out that have you changing your mind! While it did get a bit too crazy for me at the end, I was never certain until the closing pages what the ultimate outcome would be.

A well written, well characterized, thought provoking thriller in a great setting. This is another winner from this author (my favorite being No One Knows).