Another disappointing read. More because I was sold counterfeit goods. I was told Bradstreet Gate was a novel about a murder at Harvard involving three students and a captivating professor. Echoes of Tartt's The Secret History, some reviews leap to compare. Ugh! If only half were true.

I cite from Goodreads:
A tour de force debut about a campus murder for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey Eugenides
Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality. Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is....

And from Amazon description:
Bradstreet Gate is a well constructed, beautifully written novel about three Harvard students and a mysterious young professor who captivates their imaginations. A classmate is victim of a campus murder shortly before graduation, and, while the professor is the suspected perpetrator, he is never charged with the crime.


     My gripe is ⅔rds of the novel takes place during the decades post graduation and that is minus the pre-Harvard backstory scenes that take up the majority of the narrative during their college years. To claim this novel is about a murder at Harvard and the characters who knew who was murder is like saying Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited was just about the collegiate life of two friends who met at Oxford. Worst still . . . — I shan't spoil the non-resolution.

An honest back of the book description?
A story that follows the years long aftereffects of three college acquaintances whose classmate was murdered weeks before their graduation.
-- no need to mention Harvard which was never essential nor critical to the story, could have taken place at Oberlin or Penn State.
 -- no false promise of being another The Secret History
-- no illusions of being a murder mystery or any mystery cf. Collins’s The Moonstone

    Perhaps without forward expectations, I would have accepted the novel on its own merit for I did enjoy the writing and character explorations. I might return to the book in the future.