Wendy Heard

An electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in She's Too Pretty to Burn, an expertly plotted YA thriller by Wendy Heard. The summer is winding down in San Diego. Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They’re artists first, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate, lonely, magnetic Mick: the perfect subject, and Veronica’s dream girl. The days are long and hot—full of adventure—and soon they are falling in love. Falling so hard, they never imagine what comes next. One fire. Two murders. Three drowning bodies. One suspect . . . one stalker. This is a summer they won’t survive. Inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray, this sexy psychological thriller explores the intersections of love, art, danger, and power. Christy Ottaviano Books

She's Too Pretty to Burn

Desperate to escape suffocating expectations and menacing families, seventeen-year-old Maude and her step-cousin Frankie fake their own deaths while on a family vacation in Hawaii, with deadly consequences.

Dead End Girls

A Novel

You Can Trust Me

Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother. Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of "helpers," each agreeing to eliminate the abuser of another. They're taking back their power and leaving a trail of bodies throughout Los Angeles--dubbed the Blackbird Killings. If Jazz joins them, they'll take care of Carol for good. All she has to do is kill a stranger.

The Kill Club

"Her scream echoes in my memory. I know what happened. Whether anyone believes me or not, I know." Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle--beautiful, confident, incandescent Annabelle--who alone can see past the monster to the man inside. The man he's desperately trying to be. Then Annabelle disappears. Sean is sure she's been kidnapped--he witnessed her being taken firsthand--but the police are convinced that Sean himself is at the center of this crime. And he must admit, his illness has caused him to "lose time" before. What if there's more to what happened than he's able to remember? Though haunted by the fear that it might be better for Annabelle if he never finds her, Sean can't bring himself to let go of her without a fight. To save her, he'll have to do more than confront his own demons... He'll have to let them loose. A chilling, deeply suspenseful page-turner set in the 1980s, Hunting Annabelle is a stunning debut that will leave you breathless to the very end.

Hunting Annabelle

We'll Never Tell

An electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in She's Too Pretty to Burn, an expertly plotted YA thriller by Wendy Heard. The summer is winding down in San Diego.
Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They're artists first, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate, lonely, magnetic the perfect subject, and Veronica's dream girl. The days are long and hot-full of adventure -and soon they are falling in love. Falling so hard, they never imagine what comes next. One fire. Two murders. Three drowning bodies. One suspect ... one stalker. This is a summer they won't survive. Inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray, this sexy psychological thriller explores the intersections of love, art, danger, and power.

She‘s too pretty to burn

Jung, weiblich, actionreich: »Kill Club« ist ein temporeicher Thriller um eine toughe Protagonistin, die sich auf einen mörderischen Deal einlässt. Wie ein roter Faden führt die persönliche Beziehung zwischen Mörder und Opfer die Polizei auf die richtige Spur. Aber was, wenn es keine solche Beziehung gibt? Der »Kill Club« verspricht: Ein Unbekannter tötet deine Feinde - wenn du dafür einen völlig Fremden tötest. Die letzte Chance für Schlagzeugerin Jazz, ihren kleinen Bruder Joaquin aus den Fängen seiner verbrecherischen Adoptivmutter Carol zu befreien. Doch als ihr erster Auftrag misslingt, wird Jazz immer tiefer in die dunklen Machenschaften des Kill Club verstrickt und landet bald selbst auf der schwarzen Liste ... Mit der coolen Jazz, die sich auch für eine Kneipenschlägerei nicht zu fein ist, und dem hohen Body Count bietet der Thriller der amerikanischen Autorin Wendy Heard actionreiche Unterhaltung in bester Netflix-Manier. »Sie können ja mal versuchen, diesen Thriller aus der Hand zu legen.« Kirkus Reviews

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