When a high-school senior investigates the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, she discovers the rot at the heart of the institutionand the truth about her own pastalong the way.

Frankie is a good daughter, a loyal best friend, and a model student, coasting through her final semester at an elite Catholic prep school in a wealthy Pittsburgh enclave. But acceptance to her dream college leaves her unmoored. When a classmate takes his life after posting a cryptic message about Woolf Whitinga former student hockey player who died in a presumed suicide years earlierFrankie and her best friend, Shiv, decide to investigate Woolfs death as part of their journalism class project.

As the community mourns, a muffled conversation between Frankie’s mom, who teaches history at the school, and the priest who teaches her philosophy class draws the girls further into unraveling the mysterious life and death of Woolf. Frankie speaks to his sister, now a high-powered lawyer in New York; his former girlfriend, who Woolf’s mother is convinced knows more about his death than she has revealed; and his best friend. As she does, she discovers much more than she expected about the history of her supposed elite education.

With a wry, up-the-patriarchy, wise-beyond-her-years narrator in Frankie and a page-turning plot, Fine Young PeopleisHappiness FallsandI Have Some Questions for Youa cold-case mystery with a Hitchcockian twist and a portrait of ayoungwoman searching for meaning in a world that values achievement above all else.