ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS is a convoluted mystery, meaning it's more than just a mystery; it's mystery upon mystery upon mystery, and that's the best kind of mystery. So I appreciated it. But it wasn't for me. That is not to say anything negative about this book. It would have been for me back when I was in high school. It would have been a four-star book then.

Although this is one novel, it is made up of more than one story/mystery. Mainly, there are three, two taking place during beach week in 1994, one during present-day beach week. All three are about teenagers who drowned or are assumed to have drowned. And there's also another mystery of a man who was a track coach in 1994 at the teenagers' private school and is somehow now the head of that school.

The problem for me is that much of ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS is about teenagers, a subject that often bores me nowadays. Although the mysteries are told from the perspectives of different characters, including Liza as an adult, she is trying to solve mysteries that happened when she was a teenager.

This book would have been more appropriate for me when I, too, was a teenager.