College Murder Story Redux

In Bradstreet Gate, a first novel by Robin Kirman, college friendships are tested after an enigmatic young professor is accused of murdering one of his students. The ivy covered walls of Harvard are the setting for the convergence of the three college friends and the strange professor who is never convicted for the murder of a student who is not one of the central characters. The victim is a peripheral part of the story. The novel starts at the time of the college murder and covers the next ten years for the three friends and their odd connection with the accused professor.

I devoured the book, which could be called a psychological thriller, pretty quickly because I wanted to see what happened. But I was sorely disappointed by the ending. The writer introduced a couple of new characters in the very last bit of the book and it felt disjointed. Many plot threads are never really explained. The writer goes into a lot of depth with the three main characters and the professor, but some of the plot gets lost. The pacing of the book is not what you'd expect from a thriller.  Some reviewers are comparing the novel to The Secret History by Donna Tartt . There is no comparison. Overall, this book was a disappointment. I received the novel from Blogging for Books for this review.