One of Us Is Lying
Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose? Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.
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Five Bayview High students walk into detention. Only four walk out alive. Each survivor was about to be outed on the school's gossip app, and each is now hiding something from the police.
Karen M. McManus has written three main books: One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, and One of Us Is Back. The trilogy follows the Bayview High students across multiple cases.
Yes. Peacock released two seasons of One of Us Is Lying in 2021 and 2022, adapting the first two books. The show was cancelled before adapting the third novel.
One of Us Is Lying was written by Karen M. McManus, published in 2017 by Random House Children's Books.
One of Us Is Lying is 372 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, One of Us Is Lying takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
One of Us Is Lying is a standalone novel by Karen M. McManus, not part of a series.
One of Us Is Lying is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.