with Dan Mcandrews's Murder Finally Behind Her, Scarlett Has High Hopes For A Fresh Start At Wakefield Hall Collegiate, The Elite English Boarding School Her Grandmother Runs. Unfortunately, Those Hopes Are Dashed When Her Nemesis, The Infamous Plum Saybourne, Is Transferred To The School. Plum Wastes No Time Turning Scarlett’s Impressionable Classmates Against Her.
scarlett Has Dealt With Plum’s Nasty Schemes Before, And She Can Handle Her Archenemy Very Nicely, Thank You—until Plum Sets Her Sights On Scarlett’s Best Friend, Taylor, And New Boyfriend, Jase. Then Scarlett Is More Than Willing To Fight For What’s Rightfully Hers.
things Only Get Worse After Scarlett Becomes Entangled In A Mysterious Death On Campus. Scarlett Is Compelled To Investigate Because She Wants To Protect Someone Close To Her. She Never Imagines That She’ll Uncover Secrets Related To Her Parents’ Fatal Accident So Many Years Ago. . . .
the Barnes & Noble Review
adult Readers Know Lauren Henderson For Her Samantha Jones Novels, Part Of The Tart Noir Movement A Decade Or So Ago, But Her Transition Into Writing For Teens Has Been Very Smooth, Thanks To An Appealing Heroine Named Scarlett Wakefield, A Boarding School Setting, A Coterie Of Ruthlessly Mean Girls And A Murder She's Been Blamed For (the Peanut Allergy-induced Death Of A Man She'd Just Kissed For The First Time) Whose Inciting Force And Solution Was Handily Dealt With In kiss Me Kill Me And kisses And Lies.
now, In kiss In The Dark, Scarlett's Back At The Aforementioned School Run By Her Steely Grandmother, Ready For Romance With Her New Boyfriend, When Old Nemesis Plum Saybourne Arrives With Nuclear Impact. The School's Against Scarlett, Her Best Friend Taylor Is Acting Strangely And There's Another Murder On School Grounds That Ties In Unexpected Ways With The Mysterious Deaths Of Her Parents. Scarlett's Predicament Feels Right Because She Didn't Ask For Trouble And Yet Is Active About Wriggling Her Way Out Of It. There's A Steely Dignity To Henderson's Teen Novels That Should Appeal To Young Readers. Like The Rest Of Us, They Appreciate Books That Refuse To Talk Down To Them.
--sarah Weinman
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Mysteries & Thrillers
- Mystery & Detective
- Mysteries & Thrillers
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Author : Henderson, Lauren
Language : English
Published :2010-04-13
Number Of Pages : 256
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0385737777
ISBN-13 : 9780385737777
Item weight : 0.79 lb
Dimensions : 1.02 in x 5.59 in x 8.11 in
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