Lauren Ling Brown ’12, a film editor who studied screenwriting for her MFA, picked Princeton as the setting for her debut novel, a murder mystery titled Society of Lies. It follows an alumna investigating the mysterious death of her sister, who was in an exclusive Princeton social club. The novel’s twists and turns explore the dark side of prestige’s ties to race, family, and collegiate social life.
PAW asked Brown to recommend three more chilling novels to read this October, and she suggested these. Like Society of Lies, she says, they challenge readers to think deeply about the worlds where the stories take place, “uncovering layers of mystery while also learning something about themselves and their place in the world.”
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