Society Of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown (2024)
Every time I find myself hooked by a college set thriller like this one, I wonder how I managed to get out of college alive.
But then I didn't go to Princeton, which 'Society Of Lies' depicts of as a viper's nest of corruption, murder and high level corporate wheeling and dealing that stretches from the campus quads to Wall Street's most wealthy and powerful one-percenters.
Two sisters, generations apart, face way more than keeping their GPA up, as three separate timelines unfold.. In present day, alumni Maya, returns to campus for her 10 year reunion and to celebrate the graduation of her beloved kid sister Naomi. But Naomi's found dead as a result of a suspicious drowning accident. And in her sister's death, Maya's forced to re-live the same kind of traumatic events and danger she experienced as an undergrad. . Because just like her big sister, Naomi also joined an exclusive club whose membership allowed her a place in the Greystone Society, an all-powerful cabal dedicated to the financial achievement of its members. And those who dare to expose or thwart Greystone in any way, put themselves at high risk of their lives.
As Maya probes into Naomi's death, parallel past timelines show the sisters' separate but similar entanglements with the evil and influential Greystone Society, whose tentacles stretch in all directions and whose members aren't above murdering anyone posting a threat to their power.
For me that's a surefire recipe for a fast, zip-through-the-pages suspense thriller loaded up with twists and surprises right to the very end. Not to mention making me breathe a sigh of relief that the Greystone Society is fictitious........we hope.
5 stars (*****)......good, twisty back-to-school fun.
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