I Have Some Questions for You

I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 4.0

9 ratings • 2 reviews

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn't as much of an outsider at Granby as she'd thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.


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    Super interesting approach to a gentle thriller. It was sneaky in grabbing hold of my attention and I realized I just couldn’t put it down! Worth the read, but you might stay up late to finish it

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    Now this is what I call a good murder mystery! It's giving academia, thriller, acerbic humour - everything I love.

    Makkai writes about misogyny and the mistreatment and misjudgement of women in the justice system, toxic teenage masculinity (think love bombing, non existent understanding of consent etc), as well as a racially motivated conviction! Urghhh just so much good depth.

    The only negative - quite a lot of characters so at times a little difficult to remember who they all were.

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