After being hit by a car, Jane is found almost picturesquely laid out in the midst of a rosebush, a battered and broken girl in a party dress eerily resembling the photographs she herself arranges for her Dead Princesses series. She awakens in a hospital room with only scattered memories of the events that culminated in her being struck and left for dead, and it soon becomes clear (to her anyway) that this was no accident, and that someone is eager to finish what he or she started.

Her image-conscious mother and her doctors, however, suspect that the trauma of the experience is making her paranoid, so it is up to her and a hot bad-boy hospital volunteer to figure out who among her apparently devoted friends wants her dead. Jane’s memory returns in flashes, deepening and twisting the mystery as suspects multiply such that even seasoned mystery buffs will have a hard time predicting the nail-biting conclusion. Unlike Jaffe’s previous books, this doesn’t have Scooby Doo–style antics and richly comic laugh lines; instead it meditates on the grotesqueries of high-school popularity games and the deep-seated unmet needs of those who play them. The mystery has plenty of intrigue and the overwrought high-school drama plenty of appeal, though, so Jaffe fans may enjoy the change of pace, and crime fiction buffs will relish Jane’s search for answers.

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