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A girl is found dead at school and her best friend is the main suspect. This book is by a really popular YA author and this is probably her best book imo. I had a lot of fun reading it.
The structure is quite unique and leads the reader through the twists and turns of the case in a way that is easy to get hooked into.
As a learner the chapters are all short and from one specific POV (named in the chapter title) which makes it a good pick if you aren't confident with books yet and want something you can read in short bursts. The plot is very tightly contained and language mostly familiar everyday vocab and speech (outside of a few law-related terms.)
The biggest challenge for a low intermediate learner might be that it uses very spoken language (a lot of the chapters are essentially interviews) and there is a lot of quoting "apparently / i heard that..." type structures but on the other hand it's very good practice for that kind of language.