The Big Splash by Jack Ferraiolo 277 pages.
Tongue-in-cheek high school riff channels the spirit of Ray Chandler (The Big Sleep). Organized crime is rampant in Matt's school. Students are terrified that they will be the next to be taken down and turned into Others (once popular kids become scorned, ridiculed lepers after public humiliation via squirt guns filled with vile liquids). Matt is hired to find out who was behind Nikki's "assassination". Dark humor and sly wordplay make this book a hit for me.
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