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3.8

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Tom Ryan

2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best YA Crime Book2020 ITW Thriller Award, Best Young Adult Novel2020 ALA Rainbow Book ListThe Globe 100, The Globe and Mail2019 Books of the Year, Quill & QuireOur Favourite Books of the Decade, The Canadian Children's Book Centre2020 John Spray Mystery Award Finalist2020 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Finalist2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Literature2021 TAYSHAS Reading List, Texas Library Association"Breathtakingly chilling...eerie and wholly immersive...A tightly plotted mystery." Kirkus Reviews starred reviewIt's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he's drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all. Now nobody—friends, neighbors, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is following his every move, Mac struggles to come to terms with his true feelings towards Connor while scrambling to uncover the truth.

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Author

Tom Ryan

Pages

320

Publisher

Albert Whitman & Company

Published Date

2019-05-21

ISBN

0807541508 9780807541500

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"Wow! I couldn't put it down! Finished in two days! 😃 so many twist. Tell me how it was who I thought it was?! So good! This needs to be made into a movie!!"

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Savannah Romero

"This started off strong, and there was a lot I did like: I enjoyed the writing--it moved pretty quickly but still was descriptive to get a feel of the town and caves. I enjoyed seeing how Mac investigated things, and even though I did figure out the killer early on, I still enjoyed reading the book. <br/><br/>What I felt wasn't as strong were the characters--they all felt a bit two-dimensional and I really didn't think the romance was needed at all. I feel that space could've instead been used to either explore the other characters more, or flesh out the why of the murders. <spoiler> Connor being the murderer was an interesting element and I would've liked digging into that more. Since he's dead from the get go, I suppose it's hard for him to voice his whole thought process, but other than Joey's murder, I didn't feel he had much of a why for the other two. Also, although I can understand to an extent why Doris and Ben didn't tell Mac, I still felt Doris was a jerk the way she strung Mac along and seemed to do so gleefully.</spoiler> In general the ending was a bit of a letdown, and how the police handled it seemed very unrealistic."