Have You Seen This Girl
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- 14,99 €
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- 14,99 €
Publisher Description
Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbinary teen investigating a series of copycat murders targeting girls in their small town—murders based on their serial killer dad’s MO.
Another girl has gone missing in Cardinal Creek.
Sid knows their dad didn’t do it—this time. He’s currently serving a life sentence for the five girls he murdered ten years ago. Girls whose bodies he dumped into the lake. The same lake where June Hargrove was just found. And while Sid’s dad couldn’t have done it, suspicion is now directed at Sid. The only person who doesn’t suspect Sid is the new girl, Mavis—as long as Sid doesn’t let her find out about their past.
But Sid has another secret: They’re being haunted by the ghosts of the five girls their father killed. Except now there are six. And unlike the others, June isn’t content to just whisper in Sid’s ear. She wants them to find out who’s killing again, especially as another girl goes missing. If Sid wants any chance of solving the current disappearances, they’re going to have to face what their father did—or risk being haunted forever.
Critically acclaimed author of Who I Was with Her Nita Tyndall delivers a page-turning thriller that will captivate fans of Sadie and Monday's Not Coming.
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Ever since their father was convicted of the murder of five teenage girls and sentenced to life in prison, high school senior Sid Atkinson has been haunted by the ghosts of the victims. On the 10th anniversary of the first death, a recently murdered corpse is pulled out of Cardinal Lake in a clear copycat killing. When a second girl goes missing, suspicion quickly falls on Sid, who was already ostracized for both their father's crimes as well as their nonbinary identity. As they struggle to avoid the increasingly hostile small-town rumor mill, Sid finds solace in the company of Mavis Hastings, a Cardinal Creek newcomer who doesn't know about Sid's family. But when a sixth ghost shows up demanding justice, Sid realizes that the only way out of their father's shadow is to finally confront his crimes. Short, gut-wrenching interstitials of the victims' last moments intercut Sid's tensely introspective first-person narration in this tightly plotted true crime–informed murder mystery by Tyndall (Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken). While the paranormal elements feel underdeveloped, Tyndall strikes an emotionally resonant chord via tender explorations of queer romance. Sid and Mavis are white. Ages 13–up.