MAQ

Hazel Grant was the kind of girl everyone loved— brilliant, beautiful, kind. The girl teachers trusted. The girl boys adored. The girl no one believed could have enemies. Until she was found dead. As the town of Monterey mourns its golden girl, those closest to her begin to reveal fractured truths, buried resentments, and dangerous secrets they never intended to share. Her boyfriend insists he loved her. Her best friend insists she was loyal. Her classmates insist she was perfect. But perfection has a cost. As Detective Isabelle Ryah investigates the case, the murder mirrors the unresolved death of her own sister years earlier, forcing her to confront a past she never escaped. Meanwhile, Hazel’s voice emerges from the shadows, revealing a life shaped by abuse, silence, sacrifice, and the desperate need to survive. Each narrator swears the same thing: I did not kill Hazel Grant. But when everyone is hiding something, innocence becomes impossible to prove.