Getting Your Hands on One Of Us Is Lying Ebook
The book is a YA mystery by Karen M. McManus. Five students arrive at detention, only one leaves dead. Simple enough premise, but the ebook version has some formatting quirks that make reading it worthwhile to approach correctly. I picked up the ebook first from Amazon's Kindle store, which is where most people will start. It's also on Google Play Books, Apple Books, and Kobo. The standard DRM-protected file works fine on dedicated readers, but if you're sideloading or using a platform that strips DRM for personal use, you might notice something odd. Here's the problem I ran into: the chapter breaks aren't marked cleanly in the Kindle edition. Every time I finished a section and tried to use the "Go to" feature to jump ahead, the book would land me three paragraphs into the next chapter instead of the actual start. I assumed it was a bug until I checked the source code on a different device. The chapter markers were there, just placed after a blank line rather than before the heading text. This meant the navigation was consistently offset by one or two paragraphs depending on the device width.
The fix was simple. I opened the file in Calibre and used the "Edit Book" feature to locate the <h3> tags inside the HTML, then adjusted the preceding blank lines so the chapter marker aligned with the heading rather than trailing after it. Took about ten minutes. Once that was done, the table of contents and page navigation worked correctly across all my devices. If you're reading on a Kindle directly without editing, you can work around it by using the "search" function within the book. Type the character name whose section you want and land on the right chapter start that way. It's slower but requires no technical step. The ebook runs about 360 pages depending on the platform. Reading time varies but most people finish it in a single sitting or two. The pacing is built for that — short chapters, frequent reveals, alternating POVs between five different students.
There's a known issue with the audiobook narration that bleeds into reader complaints online. The narrator switches voices for each character but occasionally conflates two minor characters, making it hard to track who's speaking in group scenes. This doesn't affect the ebook version since there's no voice, but it does mean the ebook is the preferred format if you're concerned about clarity. Some platforms offer a free sample — usually the first three chapters. I'd recommend reading those before committing. The writing style shifts slightly after chapter three, and the mystery structure demands your attention from the opening. If you skip ahead without finishing the setup, later reveals land weaker than they should. The sequel, One of Us Is Next, follows a similar format and has the same chapter break quirk in its ebook edition. If you plan to continue, fixing the first book's navigation saves you the step for the second.
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