KELLY GARRETT spends her time hiking with her Great Pyrenees mix and seeking out new coffee shops. After growing up in a small, rainy town on the Oregon coast, Kelly now calls Portland home, where she organizes several literary-related lecture series. She's an alumna of Pacific University. The Last to Die is her first novel. Visit her at garrettkelly.com.
Garrett's teens are realistically (if one-dimensionally) self-involved, though Harper and some of the others have flashes of insight that point toward their evolving maturity as things spiral out of control. A second death paves the way to an unexpected conclusion in this quick-moving thriller.--Publishers Weekly I devoured LAST TO DIE, a compulsory readable light mystery, in a few hours. Garrett's writing style kept me turning pages.--Amy Feld NetGalley