Sophie Hannah - New York Times Book Review All of this Abbott pulls off with breathtaking skill. By the end of the novel, everything.is an unanswerable question. Then with each new fact that emerges, a piece of what we thought we knew is dislodged, leaving in its place a mystifying blank patch.
We imagine we have our bearings, and then the murder knocks us off course. At the same time, the purpose of solving the mystery is, arguably, to undermine the idea that mysteries can ever be solved in a meaningful way. There's a stroke of genius in this: The reader appreciates the satisfaction of the solution, which is simple, shocking and perfect. Here, the author is far more interested in the way adults recapitulate teenage behaviors, fretting and sniping and stirring the pot. Usually, teen-girl misanthropy and anxiety figure prominently into Ms. You Will Know Me revisits some of the author's favorite themes-community hysteria, the chaos of adolescent sexuality-but with a slight twist.
She resumes her customary role of black cat, opaque and unblinking, filling her readers with queasy suspicion at every turn. What Megan Abbott knows, as so many maestros of the heebie-jeebies do, is that it's not strangers who are scary it's the people you think you know and love.
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