The Bad Ones

House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - a YA supernatural thriller about four disappearances in a town haunted by a dark magical history - and one girl's search for the truth.A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . . .Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who's alive?One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora's best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth, she uncovers dark events in her high school's history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban legend- a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games . . .As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery, it's clear there are dark forces at work in her town - and they're willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep.

PRAISE FOR MELISSA ALBERT: -- --
I couldn't put it down -- Karen M. McManus
Every line reads like an incantation -- V.E. Schwab
Electrifyingly brilliant -- Katherine Webber
Taut, haunting, and potent as a witch's brew -- Krystal Sutherland
Melissa Albert brings her dark, witchy, poetic energy to The Bad Ones . . . This pleasingly knotty mystery unfurls slowly and elegantly. A delicious read. Irish Times
A gripping story of friendship and the supernatural . . . Albert’s talent for YA fiction is magical and undeniable. I was sucked right into The Bad Ones from the start, and on the edge of my seat until the end. Independent

Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children's Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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