I was glad to get sucked into this book, since reading under quarantine has been hard for me. Truly Devious is centered on girl detective Stevie arriving at an exclusive boarding school for exceptional high school juniors and seniors. She is determined to solve a crime that took place at the Vermont school over 80 years prior. She's joined in her dorm by an engineer, a published novelist, an artist who was raised on a commune, a YouTube star, and I'm not sure if the other kid, David's, speciality is.

Before Stevie can identify Truly Devious (that's how the murderer signed their first threat), another mystery emerges, and she is treated to her first dead body. She hadn't fully accounted for that reality of murder.

I would have given the book 5 stars, if it weren't for the "To be continued" ending. I think books in a series should stand on their own, and I don't like the feeling that I've been manipulated.