AustLit

'‘I think it was one of us,’ Walter says … ‘We had the perfect opportunity. Everyone’s thinking it, I’m just saying it.’

'The last thing Hallie and her drama classmates expect to find on a high school scavenger hunt is a dead body. In a town with a population of about thirty-six, no one has experience with murder investigations, but now everyone’s asking who killed Ms Lovelace.

'The drama kids thought they were the only people nerdy enough to be at school on a Sunday. When they learn that Adam Tolentino, football star, drama-club nemesis and the hottest boy in school, was there too, Hallie is given the task of finding out what he knows – but she soon learns there’s more to Adam than meets the eye.

'Although still grieving her favourite teacher, Hallie knows the show must go on. Managing a musical and a murder investigation is a lot, but Hallie and her friends won’t give up on Ms Lovelace – or each other.' (Publication summary)

 (Publication summary)

'Who are you to someone else, and what part do you play in his or her story? After a tragic car accident leaves his school in grief, Hamish finds himself pulled into the lives of the people left behind in his rural Australian town. With hard-hitting themes of unrequited love, sexuality, bullying, death and suicide, I Had Such Friends is a poignant story about self-discovery, grief and the tragic power of silence. It pushes us to reflect on our own sliding doors moment.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.