What We Saw
A Thriller
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A chilling murder mystery lies at the heart of this page-turning thriller about a missing teacher, small town secrets, and turbulent tween friendships from master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn.
When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer!
Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods. And Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold the keys to solving her murder. Suddenly, sleuthing isn't so fun anymore.
As tensions rise and their friendship frays, the girls find themselves in increasing danger, and must choose between keeping a secret or exposing a life-altering truth.
Two Best Friends: Abbi is cautious, Skylar is reckless. When they stumble upon a secret meeting, their bond is tested by the terrifying truth they uncover.Summer Mystery: A game to spice up a boring summer turns deadly when a local teacher goes missing and is later found dead in the woods.Amateur Sleuths: What starts as a fun detective game from a secret tree house hideout quickly spirals into a real-life murder investigation where they are the only witnesses.A Chilling Whodunit: From the legendary author of middle grade horror, this is a perfect spooky read for fans of mysteries with serious stakes.
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A small-town murder heralds the death of childhood innocence in this character-driven thriller by Hahn (The Thirteenth Cat). Longing to shake things up during summer break ("Don't you want to see exactly where Evansburg stops and Plattsville starts? Haven't you ever wondered about endings and beginnings?"), 12-year-old Abbi's reckless best friend, Skylar, persuades her to start sneaking out to an abandoned tree house near their town's limits, where they dodge a pair of weed-dealing bullies and observe weekly assignations between two disguised adults. Abbi imagines the grown-ups as spies, and Skylar as an adulterous couple, but the discovery of the woman's corpse in the nearby woods—and her identity as someone they both know—soon shatters their fantasies. Grappling with grief, experiencing tension with Skylar, and unable to confide in her mother, Abbi's reluctant connection to the murder investigation propels her toward sinister danger. Creating suspense through Abbi's anxiety and ominous setting details, including claustrophobia-inducing woods, Hahn holds the thriller plot in the background until the book's second half, focusing throughout on nuanced character relationships, strained and reborn through the tensions of growing up. Main characters cue as white. Ages 8–12.
Customer Reviews
This is a really good book
Hi my name is Eisley and I just got into this kind of genre of books. Am close to finishing book…(150 pages) and so far the book is amazing it’s definitely a thrilling book because like I’m the beginning of the book you thought Rob was a good person but know he was buying drugs. Really good book
Really liked the story. But it feels unfinished
Ending caught me off guard, in that it just ended where it did. It feels incomplete, like a chapter is missing.