I still can't believe that I hadn't read this until this summer! I was intending to read the new one, The Goldfinch, but realised I'd never read The Secret History, so went for that first. I'm pleased I did - what a tremendous book! I can see why people were so excited about it at the time. There's so much to say about this novel that it's hard to know where to start, but it's a classic American campus murder mystery, in which the students are obsessed with Ancient Greek and themselves, and the mystery is the why and how the murder is committed - we know right from the start who has been killed, and by whom. The tension is in the anticipation of the detail, and the plot twists keep on coming, the writing is superb; the point is the corrosive power of remorse, and the nature of fate. Brilliant, brilliant novel!