The Executioners Three
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An instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller!
From New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard comes The Executioners Three, a mystery filled with rivalry, romance, best friends, and a gruesome curse that dates back centuries.
Freddie Gellar didn't mean to get half the rival high school arrested. She’d simply heard shrieks coming from the woods, so she’d called the cops like any good human would do. How was she supposed to know it was just kids partying?
Except the next day, a body is found. And while the local sheriff might call it suicide, Freddie's instincts tell her otherwise. So, like the aspiring sleuth (and true X-Files aficionado) she is, Freddie sets out to prove there's a murderer at large.
But her investigation is quickly disrupted by the rivalry between her school and the school of the partying teens she got arrested. For over twenty years, the two student bodies have had an ongoing prank war, and Freddie's failed attempt at Good Samaritanism has upped the ante. Worse, the clever—and gorgeous—leader of the rival prank squad has set his sights on Freddie.
As more pranks unfurl, more bodies also start piling up in the forest. But it's the supernatural warning signs around town, each plucked straight from an old forgotten poem called "The Executioners Three," that worry Freddie the most. She knows the poem and its blood curse can’t be real, but she's quickly running out of time to prove it.
Because the murderer—or executioners?—knows she's onto them now, and their next target just might be Freddie.
"An irresistible blend of small-town murder mystery and spine-tingling supernatural elements."—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
Also by Susan Dennard
The Luminaries trilogy
The Luminaries
The Hunting Moon
The Whispering Night
The Witchlands series
Truthwitch
Windwitch
Sightwitch (novella)
Bloodwitch
Witchshadow
Witchlight
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Strange sounds in the woods near 17-year-old Frederica "Freddie" Gellar's historic hometown, City-on-the-Berme, prompt her to call the police—which results in a party bust and the arrests of several students from Allard Fortin Preparatory School, including Theo Porter, a "Very Bad Human Indeed." Freddie's low profile at her own Berm High School changes overnight when her popular Prank Squad classmates dub her the Prank Wizard and invite her to join their escalating prank war with Fortin Prep. When Freddie finds a dead body in the woods, however, she realizes the strange sounds she heard that night may not have been the drunken shouts of local teenagers but something much more sinister. Now, Freddie has a mystery to solve, a reputation to uphold, and a nemesis to avoid, even if that nemesis makes her heart flutter. After a second body, this time decapitated, is discovered, Freddie connects the deaths to a poem that's linked to the lore behind City-on-the-Berme. As the threat grows, Freddie must uncover the truth to protect her friends and family, even if it means asking Theo for help. Humorous banter fuels the growing spark between Freddie and Theo in this campy, action-packed thriller by Dennard (The Hunting Moon). Pop culture references from the 1990s anchor the novel's setting. The protagonists cue as white. Ages 13–up.
