I Killed Zoe Spanos

I've been meaning to get to this book for a WHILE. My coworker loooves it and talks about it frequently. Here's Kit Frick's "I Killed Zoe Spanos." 

["This gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses to murder and the other becomes determined to uncover the real truth no matter the cost.

What happened to Zoe won't stay buried...

When Anna Cicconi arrives to the small Hamptons village of Herron Mills for a summer nanny gig, she has high hopes for a fresh start. What she finds instead is a community on edge after the disappearance of Zoe Spanos, a local girl who has been missing since New Year's Eve. Anna bears an eerie resemblance to Zoe, and her mere presence in town stirs up still-raw feelings about the unsolved case. As Anna delves deeper into the mystery, stepping further and further into Zoe's life, she becomes increasingly convinced that she and Zoe are connected--and that she knows what happened to her.

Two months later, Zoe's body is found in a nearby lake, and Anna is charged with manslaughter. But Anna's confession is riddled with holes, and Martina Green, teen host of the Missing Zoe podcast, isn't satisfied. Did Anna really kill Zoe? And if not, can Martina's podcast uncover the truth?"]

The opening chapter (a "Now" chapter) is all Anna's confession. And if you know anything about true crime (podcasts, TV dramas, etc), you'd know that Anna's confession was slightly coerced and, if given a good lawyer, inadmisible in court. That opening really propels you straight into the story, wanting to know how she got here. It doesn't help that the second (and third) chapter are "Then" chapters. 

I liked the flip-flopping between the Then and Now chapters. I liked the variations between general prose-style writing and podcast transcriptions. I also liked how the book alternated between Anna's POV (mostly Anna's) and Martina's. It kept the novel fresh and exciting.

Not to mention the murder/thriller aspect. Because, while Anna might not have murdered Zoe (then again, did she?), SOMETHING happened that night, something triggered Anna to have those flashbacks, something gave her such a guilty conscious that she confessed to murdering someone she never met in a town she'd never been to.

Trigger Warnings: under-age drinking, drug-use, murder (I'd say duh, but that would be rude), violence, and more.

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