An academic thriller where a school girl Jasmin with a compulsion to know the answers, finds herself working with the university students she has admired from a distance to solve a murder.

Jasmin is a clever and determined character who whilst is still struggling with traumas of her past is not willing to let another life be lost and forgotten. Especially when she is worried an encounter the same day as the Murder may have been what triggered it all.

This is not just a story of a group of friends trying to solve a murder mystery but it is a story of growing up, complex friendships and the impact of past trauma. As the group work through their murder board and suspects their list of possibilities is growing and they uncover something much worse than the death of one student on campus.

It becomes a race against time to solve the murder and get the evidence needed before anyone else gets hurt. But lies always come out and they are not always forgivable….

This is not a fast paced thriller but you know that from the blurb going in, but with this story line it works. The risk is heightened as the book goes on and the pace picks up at the times you need it to building your emotions in the right places to be impacted by what is happening. The characters are unique in their own way but each bring something different to
the table.

Unexpected twists and turns make you want to consider your own Murder Board to work alongside the sleuth student detectives to pull together all the clues.

If you like academic thrillers, complex murder mysteries that expand into much more than just X murdered Y then I think you will enjoy this book. I was pleasantly surprised to also see a character with the same name as me in the book - granted it was a tall lanky male and not a short female like me but when you have an unusual name this almost never happens!

I am glad I picked this up and I hope there will be more books in the future around some of the characters in this book (Jasmin, Dash, Imogen, Javier)