The Murder Club has reconvened! This series closer provides fans with suspense, action, a little romance, and a very satisfying ending. The interactions between the characters are terrific. Great fun.

I got lost. I enjoyed the book but like the second one I had to keep looking up characters. I forgot most of book 2 so I wasn’t sure how Knox and Phoebe were important. I didn’t see the twist coming at the end and I think a fourth book could happen given the ending.

This is a fun conclusion to the “One of Us” series, with the twists and surprises you would expect. It took a good while to take off, in my opinion — I considered DNFing it a few times. Honestly, there are so many characters by this point that I had to accept that I wasn’t going to know who everyone is and just roll with it. But around the 40-50% mark, it picks up and makes it all worthwhile. I really appreciated the realistic (probably??) villains, and the stories of the characters we’ve been following get wrapped up in a satisfying and sweet way. I’ve read everything Karen McManus had written and I’ll continue to! She’s a great author and her books are fun, soapy, and compelling.

I have been waiting for a third book to this series in forever!

We are bringing all the Murder Crew together from the first and second book because the game has started again.

This was a good book! I was really drawn into the story. This is a quick read that is pretty fast paced.

We get multiple POVs from different people in the Murder Crew. I feel like this book wrapped up the missing ties from both books. It was a great ending to the series (I’m only guessing this is the last book of the series).

It’s always a good thing when I get can’t guess the person who starts the game in the book and I didn’t guess with this book. It had some good twist included into it.

This is definitely a great series for a YA Thriller and for anyone who is looking to dip their toes into the world of thriller books.

Thank you NetGalley and Random House for letting me review this copy.

A thrilling entry in the One of Us Is Lying series. It brings together the characters from both of the previous books for a third mystery in the always chaotic town of Bayview. Loose ends are tied up and as in any good trilogy, it all goes back to the past. Full of twists, character development and more, it is a must read.

One of Us Is Back is the 3rd book in Karen McManus's series.
The gang is back together once again after a new mystery pops up. It starts with a strange billboard that reads "Time for a new game, Bayview." Though it is initially thought to be a harmless prank, soon strange coincidences are piling up and clues are being left.
It was nice to see the whole group again and I was glad that some of the loose ends from the last book were tied up.

Once again, McManus demonstrates why she is such a master of the thriller genre. Readers of the One of Us is Lying series will be familiar with the premise - there is a mystery game connected to the events of the past in Bayview. This time, everyone from the previous two books is back in town and no one has any idea what is going on. Several of our characters have their own secrets to hide, but it's all going to come out in the end.

I love, love, loved reading this. McManus is really great at walking the line between overly stressful and just enough to keep you hooked. The characters behave like teenagers but also aren't stupid; their choices are logical and reasonable. By the end of the story, you're caught wondering how you missed all the little hints and clues that pointed toward the twist at the end. Very much the 'how did I MISS that???' idea that is present in good mystery fiction.

I'm not going to share too much about the plot, because going in blind to this novel is going to make your experience that much better. 100% would recommend, 5/5 don't miss this book!

Being back in BayView was so great. This book really tied the whole series together and the murder mystery club does it again. McManus knocked it out of the park with this series and i would highly recommend it and can see myself re-reading it one day.

First of all Thank you Netgalley and Random Home for the opportunity to read this ARC. This book is the 3rd in a series which you really do need to read in order and if you watched the tv show... no worries this is completely different. This is a collaboration of the Bayview Four from the first book and the New Teens in the Second book. I am glad she kept the whole cast because I really do like most of the characters. Also, this is a YA book which I don't read a ton of other than McManus and a few others but you wouldn't know it other than the age of the characters in the books. It is well written throughout the whole series and each one would be considered a Thriller/Mystery. I do believe the storyline of this one is even better than One of Us in Next and really enjoyed it. This town and these kids just can't catch a break and someone seems to always want revenge. It is told from different perspectives as things are happening and unraveling. They are almost like the Scooby Doo gang where they see a Mystery around them and start sniffing around to solve it. Everything seems to be normal and quieted down from the last disaster and all of a sudden a mysterious billboard pops up and then one of the friends turns up missing. It just gets crazier and more detailed from there. Great Read and I definitely recommend.

Multiple POVs & flashbacks to the past; obsessed w/the characters & relationships, and all the witty banter; was on edge almost the entire time & everything flowed so seamlessly; perfect pace; exquisite execution even w/the large # of characters- I was never once lost or confused; incredible way to wrap up this amazing trilogy

It’s rare that I enjoy sequels, let alone the final book in a trilogy, as much as I enjoyed this one 👏🏻

Special thank you to Delacorte Press and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

Okay. I loved the first book. I really did. And the second one was fun to revisit the characters again. But this one? Do you remember soap operas in the 90s? Like how they tried too hard to keep a storyline going, so they'd kill someone off, only to bring them back months later with amnesia? That's how this story felt. We could've stopped at the second book and been good. Of course, there is more drama in Bayview. And the same folks are involved. A good mystery, but j thought it was predictable. And I wasn't satisfied with the ending.

One of the best parts of sequels is getting to hang out with characters you love again. I loved seeing the gang from the first two books reunited over summer break, as something nefarious once again brewed in Bayview. I was happy to be back inside Nate's and Addy's heads - two of my favorite characters from book #1, and enjoyed being back with Phoebe from book #2. My only criticism is that I felt like Addy's and Nate's voices were almost too similar, and I often had to remind myself whose perspective I was reading at any given time. Readers who enjoyed the first two books will be happy to be back with old friends as new twists and turns come for the group. .

Well the Bayview Crew is back and I’m here for it. I absolutely loved the first two books in this series. So I was beyond excited for a third and final installment.

With this latest book of course there’s someone out there coming for the crew and a new game that quickly turns deadly. There’s all kinds of drama, secrets, lies, and manipulation that will have you thankful you’re not in that town.

One Of Us Os Back is a solid ya mystery with a good quick pace. Had life not gotten in the way I could have easily binged this one. Either way I loved it and I’m kind of bummed it’s the final installment.

This was a great trip back to Bayview with the Murder Crew. McManus is so good at creating a compelling mystery and this was no exception.

3.5 Stars, rounded down

I thought One of Us is Lying was a total Netflix-series-like guilty pleasure read, and I enjoyed One of Us is Next well enough, so I had high hopes that One of Us is Back would wrap up the series nicely. While it was fun to see the Bayview Four/Murder Club/Crew all together in this chapter, it just fell a little flat for me.

First, I was disappointed that we didn't get to see any real character development in this installation of the series. Some of the minor characters (like Vanessa and Nate's dad) exhibit some growth, but it all felt really surface-level, and none of the main characters did much of anything different in this book than they did in the rest.

The "Bayside is all about revenge" and "our cops are useless" tropes felt tired, and I thought the whole entire storyline felt like a major stretch that was just more of the same.

Still, the pacing was good, the alternating storylines are done well, and the story kept me interested even though it felt a bit far-fetched. Still enjoyable...just don't go in with high expectations.

2.8
The last 1/5 of this reads okay, but the other 80% is painfully insipid. I remember enjoying her others, so imagine my disappointment when greeted with hours and hours of people making bad choices while failing to communicate.

Once again, Karen McManus manages to put in enough red herrings to make you think one way. I thought I was right, and then the rug was pulled out from underneath. This was a good ending to a trilogy and all the stories were nicely wrapped up.

I'll always go back to Bayside, but unfortunately sometimes it just gets a bit too far-fetched. Obviously it has all the hallmarks of a McManus thriller - it's incredibly readable, I would hand this to any reluctant reader and expect them to gobble it up, it was great to see some familiar faces again and be introduced to some new ones. That said, I wouldn't mind more branch-outs from Bayside, Two Can Keep a Secret is still my favorite McManus thriller, and reading this didn't change that opinion.

Overall, a great, if unnecessary, addition to the series.

The Bayview murder club is back in a riveting finale. This round, they have to work together to piece together who has started a new deadly game in Bayview, but will they all make it our alive. Recommended for anyone who has started this series or who likes ya mystery thrillers.

I wasn’t sure how good this book was going to be because I loved the other 2 so much and didn’t think it could compare. Welp. I was wrong. This book perfectly wraps up the series. I loved getting to see what all the Bayview kids were up to.

I was given an Advances Reader Copy by NetGalley for an honest review.