Review: One of Us Is Back

One of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The teens of Bayview have survived a lot, but when a billboard displays “Time for a new game, Bayview,” everyone hopes it is a bad joke.  When a member of the Bayview Crew disappears, everyone wonders if a new game has started … and what are the rules.  It seems as if everyone is a target and then the game turns deadly.  What secrets will be uncovered?  Who is behind this version of the game?

One of Us Is Back is the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series.  There are enough hints in the first few chapters to nudge our memories about the first two stories and readers learn new information about this cast of characters.  McManus has taken a town that has survived too much and thrown it into additional turmoil.  I will have to say that this mystery wasn’t as exciting as the first two, but I kept guessing throughout about where it was going to go next.  The big reveal is far from the end, so the finale is anticlimactic.    

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