Live Your Best Lie

Gr 8 Up–Summer Cartwright’s life is picture-perfect on Instagram—a closet full of designer clothes, countless followers, even a memoir on the way. She’s living the ultimate influencer dream in her movie director parents’ upscale LA home. But then Summer is found dead at her own Halloween bash, and the police suspect murder. Someone starts posting from Summer’s account, implicating some of her closest friends and classmates from her fancy prep school. The main suspects are the four teens who found Summer’s body: Adam Mahmoud, the ex-boyfriend who recently dumped her; Grace Godwin, Summer’s purported best friend; Cora Pruitt, a sophomore who runs an intense Summer fan account; and Laney Miyamoto, a fellow junior who shared a room with Summer at international summer school. Each of them has secrets to hide, big ones—cheating, stalking, academic fraud, and more. The one person who knew all the secrets? Summer, of course. And they’re all about to be published in her tell-all memoir. Can the four discover who the real killer is before their deepest, most dangerous secrets have been spilled? In this thoroughly gripping mystery, readers are kept on the edge of their seats by a present-tense narrative with a shifting point of view, sprinkled with social media posts, text message exchanges, flashbacks, and a diverse cast of characters and suspects. Debut author Weaver clearly knows how to dole out clues and secrets at a perfect pace to keep readers hooked. While the ending thoroughly satisfies, more is promised to come in this continuing series.