This book is set at a very exclusive high school where the kids need permission to even leave school grounds in their spare time. Yet, there is always loads of alcohol around. Where does that come from? This kids aren't allowed to leave school grounds and when they do they are too young to buy alcohol. I could have believed the story if it was set at a college or university, not as it is set at a high school. Every time I realized these kids were high school age I got yanked from the story.

Also, the blurb promised intrigue, black mail and murder. I would have expected the corpse to be found sometime well before the last page.