Book description
Killers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime.
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at theâŚ
Why read it?
1 author picked The Quarry Girls as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel has so many of the things I look for in a bookâmysterious disappearances, dark and suspenseful secrets, and compelling, realistic characters that I care about.
But it also had some things I wasnât expectingâŚan eerie setting that felt like its own character and a timeframe in the past that brought me back to my own childhood. The accuracy and nostalgia surrounding the 1977 setting pulled me right in, and the mystery heightened as the teenage charactersâ friend becomes one of the missing.
Reading this book was like finding treasure, and I quickly purchased all of this authorâs otherâŚ
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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueâŚ
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