[seconds ammi's suggestion]
in fact, if you haven't read it, read 'The Secret History' by the same author (Donna Tartt) first... it's about a group of college friends taking classics and getting high and having orgies and....
MURDER 
The Goldfinch is good too but it's a bit less dramatic (but I'm less than halfway through it), about a kid whose mum dies in a bomb explosion and his growing up experiences