A murder. Maybe. The blurb says there might have been a murder. Or maybe an accident? Does someone die? Who dies?

Well, I'm not going to tell you who dies, or if it was a murder, an accident, or just parents behaving badly. But I will tell you that you won't know who dies until, well, they die. At the very end of the novel.

The book opens with something happening at an elementary school. We have no idea what happened, only that something did, and we only know that is was something major because the blurb tells us that someone dies. It's very unclear what happens in the beginning; we are told there is a scuffle of sorts witnessed by an elderly lady with a cat named Marie Antoniette (let them eat cake) in the very beginning. Then the novel takes us back six months and introduces us to entirely new characters. Bye, old lady. Hello, three 30-something ladies.

The author tells us just enough to pique our curiosity early on. One of the characters may have a psychotic monster child. Another may be a victim of domestic abuse. But the question still remains -- WHO DIES? (And should we care?)

The novel is well-written, with relatable, although slightly clichéd characters, but it's the schoolyard scandal (read: kindergarten politics) that killed it for me. I lost interest about halfway through the novel, but pressed on, because, well -- WHO DIES?

The ending is actually very good -- there are some twists that you will probably see coming, but the slow build-up was worth it. I gobbled up the last quarter of the novel greedily; once it got good, it was very good.

This book will be well received by women ages 25-45 with elementary school children.