Georgia, Alice, and
Charles have been friends throughout their four years at Harvard.
Graduation is almost there when their lives are disrupted by the
murder of a classmate, Julia Patel. Rufus Storrow, a professor and
house master, is intertwined with the three. He and Georgia, the
beautiful daughter of a famous photographer, have an
affair, but try to keep it hidden to preserve Storrow's job. Charles,
an ambitions, middle-class, young man, has been in love with Georgia
since freshman year, but she sees him only as a friend. Alice, a
brilliant, unstable girl, has been best friends with Georgia, but
she's jealous and after the murder leaks the information about
Georgia's affair.
Storrow and Julie
Patel were locked in a dispute about what was appropriate for the
professor to teach. Because of the disagreement, he becomes the
focus of the murder investigation.
The characters in
this book are very well drawn and in the beginning pull you into the
story. We learn of the murder in the prologue, but it takes well over
a third of the book to get to the event. Meanwhile, the author
explores the backstory on each of the characters.
I enjoyed the
beginning of the book, but quickly got tired of waiting for the
murder and detection to start. Even after the dead girl is
discovered, the plot goes back to the friends and the professor and
we get only small peeks at the process of trying to solve the murder.
Instead of solving
the crime. The book continues to cover the lives of the characters
for years after the incident. If you're taken with the characters,
that may be rewarding, but it your want a resolution to the murder,
it's a disappointment
.
I reviewed this book
for Blogging for Books.
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