Dig Two Graves
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Publisher Description
One of Us is Lying meets Hitchcock in this novel from celebrated author of the #MurderTrending series, Gretchen McNeil. I did my part, BFF. Now it's your turn. Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn't really fit in anywhere. When Neve is betrayed by her best friend, Yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl's empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. So when she grabs the attention of the beautiful, charismatic Diane, she falls right under her spell, and may accidentally promise to murder Diane's predatory step-brother, Javier, in exchange for Diane murdering Yasmin. But that was just a joke…right? Wrong. When Yasmin turns up dead, Diane comes calling, attempting to blackmail Neve into murdering Javier. Stalling for time, Neve pretends to go along with Diane's plan until she can find a way out that doesn't involve homicide. But as she gets to know Javier – and falls for him – she realizes that everything Diane told her is a lie. Even worse, she discovers that Yasmin probably wasn't Diane's first victim. And unless Neve can stop her, she won't be the last. In this twisted game of cat and mouse, the reader never quite knows who's telling the truth, who's playing games, and who is going to end up dead.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Carlsbad, Calif., 17-year-old Neve Lanier, who comports herself in the style of her beloved film noir films, is attending GLAM—Girls Leadership and Mentorship camp—like her mother before her. It's not the sort of place for a self-confessed social pariah, but Neve's grandmother has promised to pay her college tuition if she goes—something her family cannot otherwise afford. And Neve finds that she likes GLAM, especially after acting in a scene directed by fellow camper Diane Russell, to whom she finds herself romantically attracted. In what Neve thinks is a joke based on Strangers on a Train, the two assumed-white teens agree to kill the other's "problem": Neve will take out Diane's stepbrother, hazel-eyed Javier Flores, whom Diane indicates has been sexually assaulting her, and Diane will murder Neve's ex-friend, Yasmin Attar, broadly cued through an instance of Farsi as of Persian descent. But the joke becomes all too real when Yasmin is murdered and the evidence implicates Neve and her father, portrayed as "frail" following a mental health crisis. Centering a quirky protagonist and a heinous killer, McNeil (the #murdertrending series) studs this unevenly paced thriller with noir references while neatly unspooling the plot. Ages 14–up.
