Very Bad Things
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A dark, moody, boarding-school murder mystery teens won’t be able to put down.
Katie never thought she’d be the girl with the popular boyfriend. She also never thought he would cheat on her—but the proof is in the photo that people at their boarding school can’t stop talking about. Mark swears he doesn’t remember anything. But Rose, the girl in the photo, is missing, and Mark is in big trouble. Because it looks like Rose isn’t just gone . . . she’s dead.
Maybe Mark was stupid, but that doesn’t mean he’s a killer.
Katie needs to find out what really happened, and her digging turns up more than she bargained for, not just about Mark but about someone she loves like a sister: Tessa, her best friend. At Whitney Prep, it’s easy to keep secrets . . . especially the cold-blooded kind.
“I’ll read anything by Susan McBride.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris
People are saying GOOD THINGS about VERY BAD THINGS . . .
“A compelling mystery that will suck readers in and keep them turning the pages to reach the exciting conclusion.” —Joelle Charbonneau, New York Times bestselling author of The Testing
"Fans of the Pretty Little Liars series will appreciate the high drama and plot twists."—School Library Journal
"Fast-paced, well-crafted . . . this will be a popular book."—VOYA
“A white-knuckled climax.”—Booklist
“An eerie psychodrama.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“The venerable yet sinister school, complete with a web of subterranean steam tunnels, is as absorbing as the tightly wound mystery.”—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her first book for teens, adult author McBride (the Dropout Debutant Mystery series) draws readers into upper-crust society and the dangerous secrets that lie beneath it. Fifteen-year-old Katie has felt unsettled during her four years at a New England prep school, despite having a loyal best friend in her roommate Tessa and dating Mark, a hockey star and the headmaster's son. Lately she has reason to worry: several students seem to want Katie's relationship with Mark to end, and she suspects someone is following her, leaving roses in the library and her room. Then a "sex pic" of Mark and a Katie lookalike circulates, and after the girl in the photo turns up dead, Mark claims he can't remember anything about the night when it was taken. To save her future with Mark, and possibly their lives, Katie tries to find the killer. McBride's fast-paced plot is fueled by jumps between multiple characters' perspectives, and her rendering of the venerable yet sinister school, complete with a web of subterranean steam tunnels, is as absorbing as the tightly wound mystery. Ages 12 up.
