Nealy is reluctant because all of the evidence seems to point to Enzo, and he doesn’t want to have to dredge up painful memories. But Audrey doesn’t believe that her father, Enzo, did it, and she enlists the reluctant Nealy’s help to prove her father’s innocence. Her half-carat diamond necklace was discovered near the passenger door in the mud. The chapters also switch back and forth in time, from their eighth-grade years to their senior years in the present.Īt first, the police believe Nealy might be the one responsible for shooting and killing Carly, but a gun belonging to her cousin Audrey’s father was used to commit the murder, and he was found by the police near where the death took place, passed out drunk behind the wheel of his parked truck. The novel alternates between the first-person perspectives of Nealy and Audrey.
Her estranged boyfriend, Nealy, discovers her body by a bridge where they shared some romantic moments. Someone didn’t want the secrets she held revealed and killed her a year previous to the action in All Unquiet Things, Anna Jarzab’s stunning page-turner of a YA debut, during her junior year. But she was also impulsive, hurting, and kept dark secrets hidden that could blow the lid off of the everyday life she led at Brighton Day School in prosperous Empire Valley, California. (Jan.Carly had it all: money, a handsome boyfriend, a brilliant intellect, and an ever-increasing circle of friends. It’s a slow-building, slow-burning mystery-Jarzab is as interested in probing Neily and Audrey’s emotional states and the ramifications of Carly’s murder as she is in solving it-but the author’s confident, literary prose makes for a tense and immersive thriller. The story shifts between Neily and Audrey’s points of view, but only a few times, letting readers sink into each character’s mindset-painful, unhealed wounds are evident underneath both Neily’s clinical, sarcastic exterior and Audrey’s more open, confident manner. Audrey, who has returned to Brighton after “a self-imposed exile,” badgers Neily into helping clear her father’s name (“I can tell that behind that weak Holden Caulfield affectation is a spongy, leaking heart desperate for some sort of closure”).
Neily is a bright, cynical senior at Brighton Day School bitter after being dumped by Carly, he didn’t return her calls on the night of her death and still blames himself. Jarzab’s strong debut tracks teenage Neily and Audrey’s investigation of the murder of 16-year-old Carly-Audrey’s cousin and Neily’s ex-in an affluent San Francisco suburb one year after Audrey’s father is convicted of the crime.
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