# Keep Your Friends Close

**Author(s):** Cynthia Murphy
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** middle-grade
**Publisher:** Penguin Group
**Published:** Thu Sep 11 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780241712788
**ISBN-10:** 0241712785
**ASIN:** B0DTNCD8H9
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**Amazon binding:** $8.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/keep-your-friends-close

## Description

From the bestselling author of BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die and 'CEO of Plot Twists' comes an explosive dark academia thriller, perfect for fans of Karen M. McManus, Holly Jackson and Mean Girls. 'A thriller author to watch!' Karen M. McManus, international bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying Chloe Roberts is on top of the world at Morton Academy. She's a shoo-in for Head Girl and the lead spot in the school's secret society: Jewel and Bone. But then her best friend, Nikhita Patel, betrays her, and life comes crashing down. Things take a darker turn when Chloe stumbles upon the Book of Crime and Punishment - a record of every misdeed committed by Morton students and the fitting penalty. And it's not long before entries in the book start to match up with murders of Jewel and Bone members. Anyone could be a suspect. Can Chloe get to the bottom of this twisted game before she's next on the killer's hit list . . . ?

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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