Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

The Goode School is an all-girls boarding school full of privilege and history and secret societies.  It is also a breeding ground for hazing, secrets and lies.  Ashlyn Carr arrives at Goode under an assumed name to escape the sudden deaths of both of her parents. It appears that her secrets will be safe as the new headmistress is very interested in protecting her own secrets as well as how Ashlyn's tuition was funded.

When Ash’s roommate is found dead at the bottom of the clock tower.  It brings back parts of the dark past associated with not just the school, but the headmistress and some of the students as well.. But Ash has her own secrets and they are just itching to come back to haunt her.

While it has all the necessary elements of a good ghost story that throws a shadow over the real mystery, it missed the boat in that there were too many characters doing and saying too many things that were not of any pertinence to the story itself.  It didn’t hold my interested and I felt that the story dragged on and on and could likely have been done in about half the chapters.

2.5 rounded to 3 Stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.