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Witty and macabre.Caroline Kepnes
"Slick and chilling."Megan Miranda
I read all of her [books]. I've read everything.Cecily Strong from SNL for Vanity Fair
A perfect summer book.NPR
USA Todaybestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private schoolcomplete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson
Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest.
He says his wife couldnt be more proudthough no one has seen her in a while.
Teddy really cant be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus thatre looking more and more like murder or with the student digging a little too deep into Teddys personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.
All he wants is for his colleaguesand the endlessly meddlesome parentsto stay out of his way. If not, well, theyll get what they deserve.
Its really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost.
Genre: Mystery
Witty and macabre.Caroline Kepnes
"Slick and chilling."Megan Miranda
I read all of her [books]. I've read everything.Cecily Strong from SNL for Vanity Fair
A perfect summer book.NPR
USA Todaybestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private schoolcomplete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson
Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest.
He says his wife couldnt be more proudthough no one has seen her in a while.
Teddy really cant be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus thatre looking more and more like murder or with the student digging a little too deep into Teddys personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.
All he wants is for his colleaguesand the endlessly meddlesome parentsto stay out of his way. If not, well, theyll get what they deserve.
Its really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"Dark, sly and delicious...totally original--and totally compelling." - J P Delaney
"So dark and twisted, so deliciously evil, it'll not only make you frantically turn those pages to find out who's targeting whom, but the wry sense of humor will have you laughing out loud, too. Another phenomenal wild-ride of a read from one of the crime-writing community's most talented authors. Bet you'll never look at high-school the same way again." - Hannah Mary McKinnon
"Samantha Downing serves up another cast of deliciously mendacious characters in an exclusive private school setting, where the deadly action drives a brilliantly tense, taut and twisty plot. I may never look at my coffee in the same way again." - Gilly MacMillan
"I'm a huge fan of Samantha Downing, who is masterful at creating diabolical characters and deliciously chilling plots. An absolutely terrific book!" - Sarah Pekkanen
"Downing's spare prose packs a wallop as she deftly ratchets up the suspense with every hairpin turn of this lean, mean, surprising, and utterly propulsive thriller." - Lisa Unger
"So dark and twisted, so deliciously evil, it'll not only make you frantically turn those pages to find out who's targeting whom, but the wry sense of humor will have you laughing out loud, too. Another phenomenal wild-ride of a read from one of the crime-writing community's most talented authors. Bet you'll never look at high-school the same way again." - Hannah Mary McKinnon
"Samantha Downing serves up another cast of deliciously mendacious characters in an exclusive private school setting, where the deadly action drives a brilliantly tense, taut and twisty plot. I may never look at my coffee in the same way again." - Gilly MacMillan
"I'm a huge fan of Samantha Downing, who is masterful at creating diabolical characters and deliciously chilling plots. An absolutely terrific book!" - Sarah Pekkanen
"Downing's spare prose packs a wallop as she deftly ratchets up the suspense with every hairpin turn of this lean, mean, surprising, and utterly propulsive thriller." - Lisa Unger
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