She “noodled” on the idea for a while imagining how, and just as importantly, why, you would kill somebody in a classroom. “And the phrase ‘ The Breakfast Club with murder’ popped into my head and it just stuck there.” “I started thinking it would be fun to write an update of that movie, which I loved, but with some sort of a twist,” she said. “I think there’s something about having half my brain engaged in a mundane task that kind of gives the other half freedom to roam.” During her drive, the song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds from the Breakfast Club soundtrack came on. “I actually got the idea while I was driving and listening to the radio,” McManus said, noting that she gets lots of ideas that way. Those remaining are obvious suspects, and they all are keeping secrets. But many of those initial similarities fade away when McManus’s tale takes a much darker turn, and only four of the five students leave detention alive. And, if the book’s premise sounds familiar, that’s because it purposely echoes the opening notes of the classic 1985 John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club. McManus, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks straight, and currently sits in the #2 spot. This is the set-up for One of Us Is Lying (Delacorte, May), the debut YA novel by Karen M. Five students-strangers to each other-walk into detention at Bayview High: the brain, the beauty, the jock, the criminal, and the outcast.
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