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One of Us Is Next is a young adult mystery novel by American author Karen M. McManus. It is a sequel to her debut novel, One of Us Is Lying, and was originally published in the US by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, on 7 January 2020.

Similarly to the first book, One of Us Is next uses multiperspectivity to unfold the events of the story from the perspective of three protagonists: Maeve Rojas, Knox Myers, and Phoebe Lawton.

Plot
The book begins with an ominous news report about another Bayview High student's death within 18 months of that of Simon Kelleher's, then cuts back to ten weeks earlier where two Reddit users have a conversation on forum created by Simon, Vengeance is Mine, where one of the users talking about being horribly wronged by someone and the other assuring here that something can always be done about it.

Following the events relating to Simon's death, a few people tried to replicate what he had done with their own sites, with most of them ceasing to exist with a few days or, at most, a month of their inception. Everyone at the school receives a text from an unknown number initiating a game of truth or dare, initially the game is assumed to be just another copycat of Kelleher's app but is not reported due to the principal previously warning that she would ban all phones on school premises if a situation like this arose again.

The first person to be picked to play is Phoebe Lawton, who ignores the text, and is revealed to have slept with her sister Emma's boyfriend. Phoebe falls with both Emma and her boyfriend, Brandon Weber, who made fun of her after the news broke out.

Maeve's Leukemia relapses and she decides to keep that fact a secret.Sean Murdock is the next person to play the game, successfully performing his dare of replacing a restaurant's chicken mascot's head with the of the school mascot. Speculation arises around the identity of the person behind the game, leading to Maeve looking up Simon's old username online and discovering the Vengeance is Mine forum where one of the users claims to be behind the game.

Brandon comes to Phoebe's home and attempts to forcibly kiss her, she promptly kicks him out and breaks up with him.The Bayview Four reunite in Café Contigo, which is filled with patrons due to Cooper's local celebrity status as a college baseball player. Jules makes out with Nate as part of her dare. Maeve is the next player to be picked, she chooses to ignore and it's revealed that her boyfriend at the time, Knox Myers, couldn't get erect when they tried to sleep with each other and Knox is mocked relentlesslu by his peers as a result.

An accident happens in an abandoned construction site, as a result of which Brandon dies and Knox gets concussed.