In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent-and La Cachette's dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart. Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust.

I found their behavior to be representative of that age group. Most of the characters in this story are at, or right around, 17 years of age.

When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou - a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history - Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. DARK AND SHALLOW LIES is part coming of age, part romance, part paranormal, and a lot of mystery. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something - her grandmother Honey her childhood crush Hart and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave. Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. Her lifelong best friend, Elora, went missing three months ago, and no one knows if she’s dead or alive. This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World-and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier. In Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain, Grey returns to her hometown in Louisiana for the summer, but everything feels different. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.

Dark and shallow lies book review