I Hope You're Listening
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
2021 Lambda Literary Award - LGBTQ Mystery
2021 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Finalist for Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book
2021 Best Books for Kids & Teens starred selection, The Canadian Children's Book Centre
2022 TAYSHAS Reading List, Texas Library Association
2022 ALA Rainbow Book List
In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia "Dee" Skinner is known as the girl who wasn't taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works with online sleuths to solve them. Nobody knows Dee's the Seeker, and she plans to keep it that way. When another little girl goes missing, and the case is linked to Sibby's disappearance, Dee has a chance to get answers, with the help of her virtual detectives and the intriguing new girl at school. But how much is she willing to reveal about herself in order to uncover the truth? Dee’s about to find out what’s really at stake in unraveling the mystery of the little girls who vanished.
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Ryan (Keep This to Yourself) blends queer romance, podcasts, and amateur sleuthing in a rousing and propulsive thriller. When Delia "Dee" Skinner was seven, her best friend Sibyl "Sibby" Carmichael was kidnapped during a game of hide-and-seek in the woods surrounding their suburban neighborhood. Now 17, Dee is the Seeker, the incognito voice behind popular missing-persons podcast Radio Silent. With the help of her listening community, called the Laptop Detective Agency, Dee has solved many mysteries, yet refuses to investigate Sibby's disappearance despite provocations from a needling journalist. When a young child goes missing from Dee's childhood home, though, Dee's anonymous world is upended as she searches for connections to Sibby's case. Ryan nimbly moves from past to present as Dee interviews former neighbors and friends, leading her and love interest Sarah to a remote community with secrets to hide. Red herrings and brief Radio Silent transcripts add texture to the novel, while intriguing clues keep readers engrossed. Though resolutions are questionably serendipitous, Dee's purposeful voice is engaging, and Ryan's portrayal of the way a crime can create long-lasting impacts within a community is profound. Ages 13 up.
