The New York Times bestseller! A new take on Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery The
Mysterious Affair at Styles with iconic detective Hercule Poirot recast as a brilliant brash
teen girl named Holiday and narrated by her childhood friend Linden an athlete-scholar who
fits right in at his elite prep school—all the while hiding some secrets of his own. Michael
Linden—or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals—doesn’t belong in wealthy storied
Martha’s Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his
massive beachfront home August House Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn’t call it
lying exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found
unconscious in Jasper’s pool and everyone has something to hide—Jasper his beautiful sister
Eliza their older brother Wells and their friends. The accident is written off as just
that—an accident—but Linden begins to wonder... Enter: Holiday Proctor. Linden’s childhood
friend and the one person on the island who knows the truth about Linden. There’s nothing
Holiday loves more than a good old-fashioned mystery and she’s convinced there's a potential
killer on the Vineyard. The only question is…who?
