Mystery Madness discussion

This will be our discussion thread for "Rule 3 Don't Get Caught" which is the third section of The Lying Game. This section is a little bit longer than the previous two sections so you may want to get started on it before Week Three of March. But my goal is to finish it by March 21st and come back here and chat about it before starting Rule 4.

More than halfway through the book and we finally get to a crime. The group of friends wrongly disposed of a deceased body. It was Kates father who apparently killed himself. We learn that he liked to host his children and their friends at his house (while they all were naked) and draw pictures of the minors and keep those pictures at his place of employment where they were discovered.

Anyone else find that weird?? I mean I spent many days and nights at friends houses in high school and we always managed to hang out with our clothes on.....

So they wrongly dispose of Kates dads' body because Kate (only "4 WEEKS" away from being of legal age) doesn't want to spent those "4 weeks" in care of the state. Therefore, she has her bff's help her commit a crime that carries a very lengthy sentence (at least in the US).

These girls are so dumb. This is just another example of their ridiculously poor judgment. Also, if they were "bff's" why didn't they stay in touch over the 15 years? Ever heard of facebook, email, calls, text, instagram, snail mail... seriously! And Isa, Fatima, and Thea ALL LIVE IN LONDON!! It's not like they're world's apart. So now the three that live in London head back to London. Honestly, I am kind of losing interest and don't really care what happens. I will finish the story, but I'm kind of like.... Yeah, what did you expect?? As a reader we learn that the whole town knows and now there's a body. Unless there's a major twist in the story I'm already guessing I won't end up liking the book.

I concur with pretty much all of what Victoria said above—none of this makes sense. The stuff at the very end of this section made me wonder if Kate killed Ambrose though vs. his committing suicide. We’ve only got Kate’s word for what happened.

I'm still here, but haven't finished this section yet, so I'm not reading the above comments quite yet. I've been trying finish all of my Hoopla audio books that I borrowed on the last day of Feb. They are expiring in less than 24 hours and I have one and a half books to go. I should be able to get back to The Lying Game tomorrow.

I finally finished this 3rd section and completely concur with both of you. I was hoping that I would find something in this book worth reading but I'm having to force myself to listen to it.
Plus, I'm also wondering if this is all there is. I mean so far we have some juvenile delinquents hiding a body that they didn't murder. We all know that juveniles don't usually exercise good judgement, but is this really enough to write a whole thriller around?