Her books are either hit or miss for me and this one was a hit. I think it also depends on my mood because sometimes I just CANNOT get behind high schoolers running around solving murders, and then other times I’m cheering on their little badass selves!

I really liked the twists of this one. Who killed the “beloved” teacher? I blamed a lot of different characters in this one and thought for sure I was correct every time. I was not 😆 all the way to the end. Looking back, it was clear that the person showed signs, but it was someone that I just didn’t really consider. I love when that happens!

Just know this was one of her better ones (at least IMO 😁) if you are a McManus fan!

Thank you to @netgalley and @delacortepress for the arc in exchange for my honest review! ❤️

Not my favorite book by McManus, but it was enjoyable enough. This one didn't pull me in line One of us is Lying.

Enjoyable, YA read. It's not One of Us is Lying, but its a good thrilling teen read. I enjoyed it and read it one sitting.

Karen McManus is back with her strongest book in years. She is working at her best here -- the mystery is thrilling, enthralling and I was trying to solve it the entire time. She manages to avoid the cliche ending while also making this feel like an engaging read for teenagers. YA readers who like her other books will flock to this one.

i loved the mystery in this book so much! i was invested from page one and i couldn't put the book down, because i just wanted to see how it would all unravel! i thought the ending was satisfying and i really enjoyed the way mcmanus weaved in all of her past stories to serve this narrative.

I have been putting off reading Karen M. McManus for quite some time now (don't ask me why), so I thought what better book to start with than Nothing More to Tell for #TheYearOfNetGalley? The story was a wild one and I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't what I got and that is in the best way possible! I really enjoyed reading from Brynn's viewpoint, and of course, I loved that she got an internship with a true crime show. I couldn’t help but suspect basically everyone that Brynn looked into, and this book is filled with plenty of red herrings to throw the reader off the scent. We are also lucky enough to get Tripp’s perspective and even though he did a certain mean thing to Brynn, he was still a very likable character and I felt really bad for him. There is no way I would have figured out where this was going to go, and it definitely went somewhere that you are going to have to suspend some disbelief in order to fully appreciate it.

I was especially shocked by the epilogue McManus included, and it left me with hope that we might end up back in this world at some point. There is so much to unpack here, and I would gladly read more about these characters. There are many layers to the story, and I loved the way the author peeled them all back as though peeling an onion. I think that just made the reveals hit even harder and the 2 timelines were brilliant as well. I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Jesse Vilinsky & Andrew Eiden, and I thought it was very well done and well-cast. I am used to hearing Eiden narrate romance so that was a little odd, but I still loved him for Tripp and Vilinsky was exceptional. This might be my first book by this author, but I will definitely be reading her others now and highly recommend Nothing More to Tell to fans of YA thrillers and mysteries.

This was a fun one! I love Karen McManus books and this one did not disappoint.. A murder mystery that spans decades while including teen angst. 4 enthusiastic stars for this book.

I am a huge Karen M McManus! I was so excited that she has a new book out. In Nothing More to Tell Brynn comes back to a school she previously attended. She also gets a job working for a true crime podcast and at her interview proposes that the podcast cover the murder of her former teacher. They are interested and tell Brynn to do some investigation into the murder. It is a complicated thing to go back and look at who might be guilty among her friends and enemies.

Thank you NetGalley, for the ARC, though this review is woefully overdue.

Karen McManus does it again. Make sure you have time when you begin reading this book. She hooks you on the first page and you don't want to put the book down.

Three 8th graders find the body of a beloved teacher in the woods. Brynn, who's been away since then, returns her senior year to learn the mystery has not been solved. Tripp, her friend who was in the group finding the body, has secrets. Did he kill Mr. Larkin? And why?

Though the book is about high schoolers, there is nothing in the story making inappropriate for middle schoolers. Thank goodness. Now I can recommend like crazy. This book won't stay on the shelf.

As a reader you know what you’re going to get when it comes to Karen M. McManus. Her books are entertaining and page turning. Great YA read in a day mysteries.

Karen McManus is back with this story of a murdered teacher at the uber-fancy Saint Ambrose School. The tragedy happened four years earlier, and here’s the kicker: no one truly knows what happened…until now. In the present, Brynn wins an internship at a true crime show, where she’ll finally have the opportunity to investigate what’s haunted her for years.

McManus is the Goddess of Pacing. Seriously, these pages turn themselves. She takes all the work out of reading a book, leaving you with only the task of sitting back and enjoying the show. The plot moves at breakneck speed. The characters feel real; you’ll be convinced you’ve met them out in the wild and have listened to their stories. You’ll be so invested in the mystery that you’ll not leave your new friends until their tale is done. And that ending! It’ll leave you in a daze and wondering what just hit you.

This one is every bit as compelling as the grittiest adult suspense novel. Plus, there’s even more meat to the mystery. It goes beyond just anxiety-inducing suspense. It oozes with thought-provoking themes, complicated family dynamics, an analysis of social class, and a precious pinch of romance.

Grab this one as soon as bookishly possible. You’ll be glad you did.

Good story. Quick read. Lots of twists and turns in the story. Good characters and you don’t figure out everything right away.

Her first is still my favorite.

4.75

This is my third Karen McManus book and similar to the other two I loved this one. I was hooked right from the start. I enjoy thrillers/mysteries but haven’t picked very many up this year. After finishing this, I definitely want to start reading thrillers more often. The pacing of this book moved quickly and I had no clue what was going to happen. The twists were enough to shock me but they didn’t feel too unrealistic. I also enjoyed the romance sup-plot. The ending of the book felt rushed to me and ended up knocking my rating down a little bit. I ended up having to re-listen and google the ending to make sure I understood what happened. I feel like McManus left the door open for a sequel which can hopefully tie up some of the loose ends left at the end of this one. I would also love to see more of Ellie if there is a next book!


I loved that we got to point of views and I enjoyed both of the narrators, especially Jesse Vilinsky!

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for a copy of this e-book in exchange for an honest review.

YA is not a genre I pick up a lot. In fact, this is just the second YA I've finished in 2022. This is also my first Karen M. McManus.

Overall, I had a fun time. Lots of red herrings and some nosey high schoolers similar to Good Girl, Bad Blood, however I wish this had more of Brynn doing actual journalism or podcasting.

One thing that made me uncomfortable was the very liberal use of high schoolers drinking a lot. I'm not naive, I used to be in high school. I'm aware there was alcohol around, but for one to go binge drinking for a week? Maybe shouldn't be in a YA book.

Had a good time, but as it happens with YA, it was all tied up at the end. So if you like that, try this one out! I'll consider picking up more work from McManus and can see why this ended up in the Goodreads Choice awards, but didn't win.

Rating 3/5

An unexpected trio of best friends. A teacher murdered. A killer never caught. All details that make Karen McManus’ Nothing More to Tell a captivating ride from beginning to end.

A mid-year transfer finds Brynn back in her old high school at Saint Ambrose and accepting an internship at a true-crime podcast which is perfect for her - the year she transferred her favorite teacher Mr. Larkin was killed on school grounds. When Brynn pitches Mr. Larkin’s unsolved murder for the show, she finds herself investigating what really happened to him and who he might have saw or spoken to in his last moments, including her ex-best friend, Tripp Talbot. As Brynn gets closer to the truth - what she discovers that everything she knows about that day couldn’t be farther from the truth.

I enjoyed this latest novel from Karen McManus. It has a good pace and a good cast of characters who keep you entertained. I gave it three stars because I felt like there were a lot of sub-plots playing out that were distracting from the main story - Brynn’s exit from her last school, the missing Larkin brother, etc. Over all a good read!

Thanks to Net Galley, Random House Children’s Delacorte Press and Karen McManus for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Read if you like:

+ Teenage Investigators
+ True Crime a la Only Murders in the Building
+ Anything Karen McManus

Good standard mystery that McManus tends to write but nothing really stuck out on me with this one. The characters were just ok and the mystery itself but a little boring. It was still enjoyable and filled that mystery itch.

As usual, Karen McManus has written an intriguing thriller that includes teenagers solving a crime. A budding journalist, Brynn returns to her previously attended private school after her favorite English teacher was murdered. To further thicken the plot, three students - one of whom used to be Brynn's best friend - were found in the woods at the same time the body was discovered. Brynn uses her investigative skills to start looking for clues as to how the three students were involved and tries to figure out what happened to beloved Mr. Larkin. Along the way, she discovers that many people are hiding secrets, and she may be in danger for trying to uncover them.

This is a fast, easy read with a great deal of suspense and plot twists, but the ending felt very rushed. The novel seemed well-paced until the end, and it left the reader wondering what happened after such a long build-up. Regardless, teens will enjoy reading this, and it will keep them guessing until the end as to what happened.

3.5 STARS

"You're a bad liar, Tripp Talbot. Always have been."

Karen McManus has built an empire off of the modern day YA thriller, and Nothing More to Tell fits nicely into her repertoire. Perhaps I've missed this before, but it was fun seeing how she tied multiple other books she has written into this books "universe", referencing One of Us Is Lying and You'll Be the Death of Me in conjunction with podcasts solving other mysteries. Don't worry, if you haven't read these yet, you won't be spoiled. No direct details to the solving of the mysteries are included.Maybe that's why I enjoyed this one more than the past couple of books the author has written, or maybe this one was just a more enjoyable read overall.

This book has everything you would come to expect from a KM novel: a murder mystery and a bunch of teenagers trying to solve it without spilling their own secrets along the way. Mr. Larkin was a beloved teacher at Saint Ambrose private school, and while we don't get to know much of who he was while he was a teacher, we do get to know more about his backstory toward the end of the novel. Brynn has just moved back to her old hometown after her dad was transferred back for work, and she is loathe to see Tripp Talbot, her ex-best friend who embarrassed her in front of the entire school way back when. Tripp was one of three students who found Mr. Larkin's dead body in the woods behind the school, and they are all keeping secrets, but is one of them a murderer?

There's nothing incredibly deep here, and everything is very plot driven, which makes this a fun read when you need some easy going entertainment. I clearly need to go back to taking better notes while I'm reading (that's what I get for reading a mystery while in a fever induced flu fugue), but some of the continuity did not add up for me. Again, I'm assuming I must be misremembering the order of some things (for example, the timing of when Tripp does what he does to embarrass Brynn in relation to the timeline of the murder), and I did not find myself invested enough to hunt back through the book and check. I was incorrect with who I thought the murderer was, which is always a pleasant surprise, and I'll be interested to see if McManus decides to create a series with these characters based on the epilogue.

Another great YA thriller from Karen McManus! I really liked One of Us is Lying and have read each of her YA thrillers since then. So I was excited to have the opportunity to read this one. This story follows Brynn who recently moves back to her hometown. She takes an internship with a true crime show where she pitches to cover an investigative article for the death of a teacher at her school. The more Brynn digs into the case the more she discovers lots of inconsistencies that don’t make any sense. Recommend for anyone who enjoys mystery/thrillers set in academia.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Children's- Delacorte Press for providing me with an ARC of Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus in exchange for an honest review.

Another great YA mystery from McManus. I enjoyed the references to her other books and I was kept guessing right up until.the end. This was a quick read and more plot than character focused which I appreciated.