The secret history by Donna Tartt

From Follett

Richard Papen becomes embroiled in a society of brutal and deadly secrets from which he is unable to escape when an elite group of students from the prestigious Hampden College accept him into their group.

From the Publisher

Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together. 

Recommended by Dr. Hoffmann, Social Studies Department

"A Modern Masterpiece, it creates the genre of the private school noir/private school gothic. At an elite school, a crime occurs among a group of affluent students. With one outsider desperate to fit in, will they get away with or will it come crashing down?"

"Incredible novel."