The Bad Ones

Melissa Albert

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Penguin Books NZ Ltd
16 July 2024

Thrillers (Children's&YA); Crime & mystery fiction (Children's&YA)

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.

By: Melissa Albert
Imprint: Penguin Books NZ Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780241662038
ISBN 10: 0241662036
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 16 July 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Young adult , English as a second language , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Bad Ones

PRAISE FOR MELISSA ALBERT -- -- EVERY LINE READS LIKE AN INCANTATION, and the result is a book pulsing with magic, one that holds the reader firmly under its spell. -- V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Pulses with a bold, beguiling magic . . . I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN -- Karen McManus, bestselling author of ONE OF US IS LYING ELECTRIFYINGLY BRILLIANT -- Katherine Webber