9780349727202 Rebecca Makkai: I have some questions for you, Little Brown UK, Hardback

Right off the bat, Rebecca Makkai's  novel " The Great Believers" is an absolutely fabulous piece of literature, I loved it. Her latest " I have some questions for you" however did not have the same effect on me,  really struggled with it until the middle of the novel when the crime element gained dominance.  Did I expect too much from this novel? Maybe.  Mixing a campus with a crime novel has been done before, see Donna Tartt' s Secret History, but I felt Makkai's story and its character building too long drawn out with the added #Metoo movement mixed into it.

Bodie Kane, a film professor and podcaster, the narrator whose voice switches from the past to the present, has been invited to teach a course at  her old boarding school Granby. During one of her seminars a  female student decides to reinvestigate the murder of Bodie's classmate Thalia Keith, who was found brutally killed at Granby over 20 years ago confronting  Bodie with her miserable time back then becoming convinced that the wrong man was accused of the crime still serving time in prison.  It is when she decides to follow her own suspicions blending her present life with the past that the novel becomes really captivating and alive for me.