The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Ruth Ware creates another exciting novel in The Lying Game. It involves four women who had been forced to leave an English boarding school years ago following the disappearance of the school’s art instructor who was the father of one of the girls. The discovery of the man’s body creates a crisis for the friends who had kept a terrible secret since that time. They return to the little village to decide what they should do.

As students they had played a game that involved lying to their teachers and peers, and now no one believes anything they say, and many of the villagers are convinced that they bore responsibility for the death.

Soon threatening signals and messages reveal that someone knows what they did and plans revenge.