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Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this unputdownable mystery follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.

Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course, must find six…

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1 author picked The Examiner as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Hallett tells her story through third person, extraneous emails and teacher reports and college papers. Different fonts and to/from individual names on the email. So clever. One of six students of an online course disappears and suspicion falls everywhere. It's creepy and intense. All the clues are there in the details. Hallett has perfected this particular style, but this latest one is simply the best.

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