βYouβre not going to murder me in the night, are you?β Emily asks. βHahaha. Thatβs funny,β I say. Of course, Iβm not going to murder her in the night. I need my laptop back first. Thatβs the whole point of making friends with Emily Harper, author of the hugely successful novel Diary of an Octopus. So I could get into her apartment and take back whatβs mine. Emily doesnβt know who I really am. She thinks Iβm her biggest fan, her new best friend who happens to need a place to stay for a few days. She doesnβt realize the laptop she foundβand tookβfrom a busy airport almost two years ago was mine. I donβt care about the laptop, just what's on it: my diary. I kept it many years ago as a troubled thirteen-year-old girl with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic. Now she's published it as her own. She thinks it's a story about a schoolgirlβs crush on her teacher, but sheβs wrong. Itβs a story about a murder. Two murders, if you count the hamster. She thought it was okay to make a few changes and publish it under her own name, but she was wrong about that too. Because, sometimes, truth is deadlier than fiction.