Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois

This is the story of a young college student, Lily, studying in Buenos Aires who is arrested for the murder of her roommate. The book says it's 'loosely' based on the Amanda Knox real life story, but I do think it's more than loosely based. At any rate, I found it a really interesting psychological drama. I wasn't sure until the end how it would play out, so I couldn't put it down.

Rather than just a simple murder mystery, this book delves into the characters in a much more in depth way. It examines the 'truth' from all sorts of points of view, leaving the readers to find they actually kind of believe all of them at various times. Or maybe disbelieve. The characters are portrayed  with both good and bad characteristics that we can sympathize and empathize with on the one hand and feel disdain for on the other. Some of the characters are very unusual, such as the boyfriend, Sebastion, others act entitled, some had lives colored by tragedy, but all were fascinating.

Jennifer duBois has also written A Partial History of Lost Causes which I haven't read yet, but now feel I must.