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What I Told My Friends
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Alice Leigh
Subgenres:
- Dark Academia,
- Psychological Thriller,
- Boarding School
This book is for you if you're into...
- Boarding school secrets that echo across decades
- Dark academia with murder, suspicion, and shifting loyalties
- Stories where the past refuses to stay buried
High Hill Manor has hidden a secret for decades. Now it will finally be revealed.
Chloe Carter is the new girl. After leaving her previous school in a whirl of vicious rumours, she desperately needs a new start. But things don’t go as Chloe had hoped. Head girl Emily Ashbourne has it out for Chloe from the beginning. When Emily falls from the school belltower – in suspicious circumstances – the whole school comes under scrutiny, including Chloe. But it is Mr Aides, the much-loved music teacher, who is arrested for Emily’s murder.
Twenty years later, Chloe greets Mr Aides at the gates on the day of his release. She is ready to reveal all. But the truth may not be what she thinks it is and when people close to the events of that fateful day wind up dead, Chloe realises that the truth might cause more harm than good…
A dark academia thriller perfect for fans of When We Were Silent, The Four, The Trial and My Dark Vanessa.
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Then She Lied
2026
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