Claire Fuller's Reviews > I Have Some Questions for You

Power, privilege, and #MeToo, and how it's too easy for a murdered woman to become nameless, one of thousands. Bodie Kane is nearly forty when she takes a two-week job at her old New Hampshire boarding school to teach a podcasting course. Returning brings back all her difficult teenage memories of being an outsider, and the murder of her roommate Thalia, when they were both seventeen. Two of Bodie's students take on Thalia's murder as a subject for their podcast, looking at whether the conviction of Omar - the school's sports technician - was correct, and Bodie can't help but fall down her own rabbit hole of who killed Thalia. It's a literary thriller, slow in all the right places, and very satisfying. My only quibble is that all the backstory and even the court case is reported or memories. I think it might have been even more thrilling if the reader had been allowed to experience the action some more, but of course then it would have been a different book.