People Like Us by Dana Mele

Bates Academy is an all girls boarding school where Kay Donovan is trying to reinvent herself from a past the reader does not learn about until late in the book. People Like Us is a suspenseful novel that appears to be predictable and obvious until deep, dark secrets are revealed. Kay is the star soccer player on her team with hopes and dreams of receiving a soccer scholarship at a top-ranked college or university and it seems as though she is on the right path to do that. That is until a classmate's body is found floating in a lake face down and now detectives, classmates, and teammates start to point the finger at Kay. She has to figure out how she is going to convince everyone she is innocent by completing a computer-generated scavenger hunt, which was left behind by the murdered classmate. The book was really interesting for the first half, but had a lull in the middle, and then picked up again when everything started to come together. There are some sexual and explicit scenes and the language may be a bit much, but overall this is an entertaining book that does keep the reader interested for the most part.