Two Can Keep a Secret
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4.4 • 453 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The "must-read YA thriller" (Bustle) from #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying about a small town with deadly secrets.
"When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in a league of her own..." --Entertainment Weekly
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.
The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.
Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous--and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself.
Fans of the hit thriller that started it all can watch the secrets of the Bayview Four be revealed in the One of Us is Lying TV series now streaming on NBC's Peacock!
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A dead body in the middle of the road (the high school's science teacher) welcomes twins Ellery and Ezra Corcoran, 17, to their new home in Echo Ridge, Vt., where they've been sent to live with their estranged grandmother during their mother Sadie's court-appointed rehab for opioid addiction. Ellery, a true-crime buff, uses the opportunity to look into Echo Ridge's notorious unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of Sadie's identical twin sister after Sadie was crowned homecoming queen 23 years earlier, and the murder of Lacey Kilduff, the homecoming queen found strangled at Murderland, the local Halloween theme park, five years ago. After the science teacher dies, Ellery is nominated for the homecoming court, and someone begins to threaten Ellery and the other two nominees for queen, tagging signs and promising a Murderland redux. When one of the two possible queens goes missing, Ellery dons her amateur detective hat, putting herself and her loved ones in danger. With complex characters and intricate plotting, McManus (One of Us Is Lying) delivers a fast-paced, twisty whodunit. Ages 14 up.)
Customer Reviews
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For fans of Riverdale and PLL. As good as her other books! Very suspenseful such a twist ending!
Great last page.
Totally unexpected.
Story Feels Too Familiar - Definitely Meant for YA Minds
⭐️: 2.5/5
⚠️: Murder, Family Member Disappearing, Hit and Run Car Accident, Suffocation, Cursing
Do you never get into a book and have that nagging feeling, “I’ve read this before”? Yeah, that was this book. Was it a bad read? No. It was pretty well written. Overall, the characters were developed well and the changing POV was clear. The entire time I was read, though, I kept thinking to other books with VERY similar plots. So, I guess A+ for following one of the thriller tropes to a T. However, it wasn’t shocking. There was no awe factor for me. Did I become desensitized with the more macabre stories I’ve been reading recently? I mean it’s entirely possible. At the end of the day, I want my books to leave and impression…this book didn’t do it.