![]() ![]() Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Literary. Though falling short of the boldly bizarro plot and quirky characters of He Started It, this thriller nonetheless offers darkly comic amusement and ample surprises from its cast of unabashedly amoral schemers. Their independent efforts to help her only make matters much, much worse-as well as put them on a dangerous collision course with one another. That is, until the less than stellar police investigation targets a student close to both Teddy and Zach, gifted school newspaper editor Courtney Ross. by Samantha Downing RELEASE DATE: ApA road trip to scatter their grandfather’s ashesand claim their inheritancetakes a strange turn for three adult siblings in Downing’s ( My Lovely Wife, 2019) sharp psychological thriller. It’s going to take more than a few inconvenient bodies on campus, however, to derail such driven Belmont community members as English lit instructor Teddy Crutcher, whose recent teacher of the year award seems to have done little to diminish the massive chip on his shoulder, or talented but entitled junior Zach Ward, the most recent individual to arouse his ire. Within weeks, Belmont Academy’s image plummets from gilded Ivy League gateway to ghoulish #HomicideHigh in this slyly plotted page-turner from Edgar finalist Downing ( He Started It). ![]()
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