A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless. On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. I just want to talk.As a former Thespian and lifelong lover of Shakespeare, If We Were Villains is a book I should have loved. When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. Expectation is the root of all heartache - William Shakespeare Whoever recommended this book to me. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into life. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret History Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed.
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