It's Day 8 of our 12 Days of Mysteries! If you're still looking for gift ideas for the young mystery or thriller reader in your life (or maybe that's you!), we can help!
We hope you'll check out these three hot new YA mystery/thriller releases from 2013!
THE NATURALS, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (released 11/5/13, Disney-Hyperion)
Seventeen-year-old
Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest
details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a
skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come
knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional
teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What
Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved
homicides— especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens
whose gifts are as unusual as her own.
Sarcastic, privileged
Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside
Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for
profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length.
Soon, it becomes clear
that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new
killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have
imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the
Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.
GOLDEN, by Jessi Kirby (released 5/14/13, Simon & Schuster)
Seventeen-year-old
Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and
quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without
ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a
clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town
mystery—she decides to take a chance.
Julianna Farnetti and Shane
Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect
in every way, meant to be together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells
a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance
with an older, artistic guy. These are the secrets that were swept away
with her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river, leaving
behind a grieving town and no bodies to bury.
Reading Julianna’s
journal gives Parker the courage to start to really live—and it also
gives her reasons to question what really happened the night of the
accident. Armed with clues from the past, Parker enlists the help of her
best friend, Kat, and Trevor, her longtime crush, to track down some
leads. The mystery ends up taking Parker places that she never could
have imagined. And she soon finds that taking the road less traveled
makes all the difference.
ONE CAME HOME, by Amy Timberlake (released January 8, 2013, Knopf)
In the town of Placid,
Wisconsin, in 1871, Georgie Burkhardt is known for two things: her
uncanny aim with a rifle and her habit of speaking her mind plainly.
But
when Georgie blurts out something she shouldn't, her older sister
Agatha flees, running off with a pack of "pigeoners" trailing the
passenger pigeon migration. And when the sheriff returns to town with an
unidentifiable body—wearing Agatha's blue-green ball gown—everyone
assumes the worst. Except Georgie. Refusing to believe the facts that
are laid down (and coffined) before her, Georgie sets out on a journey
to find her sister. She will track every last clue and shred of evidence
to bring Agatha home. Yet even with resolute determination and her
trusty Springfield single-shot, Georgie is not prepared for what she
faces on the western frontier.
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