Will keep you on edge, but do NOT skip to the end of the book, no matter HOW MUCH you might be tempted!!!! A good pair with Anna Dressed In Blood, although not nearly as much gore, and will go over well with those who like Kimberly Derting ( Body Finder series). The tension between her stepmother and Jade is extremely believable, and hits just the right note, as does the building of suspicions between suspects. The alternating format gives readers a huge chill and enormous insight into Kayla’s character and the possible motives behind each suspect, while Jade races to find out who the killer is before anything worse happens to her family. Kim Harrington is the author of Clarity (a 2012 ALA Quick Pickfor Reluctant Readers), Perception, The Dead and Buried, and Forget Me for teens. And the killer seems to be one of those who knew Kayla and felt she had it coming, because as readers find out from Kayla’s journal entries, she gives Regina George a run for her money. While Jade would rather try and go through senior year, Kayla has other plans- find her killer, or Jade’s family will suffer. Her little brother tells her about seeing a shimmery girl in his room, which is the ghost of Kayla- the girl who died under mysterious circumstances earlier in the year. Jade is instantly the talk of the school- not for being the new girl, but for being the girl who moved into the “murder house”, which her dad and step-mom conveniently forgot to tell her about.
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