Kiss of Death

Informationen zum Autor LAUREN HENDERSON is the author of several acclaimed "tart noir" mystery novels for adults! as well as the witty romance handbook Jane Austen's Guide to Dating! which has been optioned for film development by producer Kiwi Smith. She was born and raised in London! where she lives with her husband. Visit her online at laurenhenderson.net or myspace.com/mslaurenhenderson. Klappentext Scarlett thought Dan McAndrew's murder was long behind her! but when she and her classmates arrive in Edinburgh for a weeklong field trip! she's startled to be joined by her old St. Tabby's cohorts--and enemies--who are visiting the area on a field trip as well. Even more startling! Callum! Dan's surviving twin! is in the area--and his cold treatment leaves Scarlett wondering what's changed! especially when a series of attacks makes her believe that someone's out to get her for her past mistakes. Would Callum ever hurt her! though? And what's Scarlett to make of her conflicting feelings for Callum! now that Jase isn't around? Even more upsetting! why is her most trusted confidante! Taylor! acting distant and dismissive? One Blast from the Past This is absolutely the worst thing that's ever happened to me. In the dark, I look sideways at Taylor, who's staring straight ahead, her body stiff with horror. I can tell that she feels the same as I do. She and I have been through so much together; you'd think we'd be immune to anything life can throw at us. We were warned, I suppose. But nothing could have prepared us for this level of atrocity. I pull out my silenced phone and glance down at it. Oh God. I turn the face to Taylor, nudging her, so that she can see it too. In the glow from the phone, her lips are stretched back over her teeth in a grimace, her eyes narrowed in almost physical pain. She looks like a gargoyle. The bluish light makes her seem even more eerie. "I can't bear it!" she whispers. "We have to," I say grimly, looking from side to side just to confirm what I already know: there's no escape. The clock on my phone is telling me there are fifteen more minutes of this. Fifteen more minutes of sheer hell. I close my eyes to block out the sight. But then I have to listen to the sounds, and they're even worse without the visuals. Hell, I imagine, is probably something along these lines. Trapped forever, forced to endure this torture, without ever being able to put an end to your misery. And--an extra twist of the knife--having to watch your best friend go through it too. A particularly excruciating screech snaps my eyes open in reflex. Nails scraping down a blackboard are soothing compared to this. And yet, if I had to describe the single worst part of the scene in front of me, I actually don't think it would be the noise they're making, atrocious and earsplitting though that is. It would be the clothes. I really don't know much about Norway. It has fjords, apparently, and lots of snow, and the people are tall and blond and very, very white: that was pretty much the limit of my Norway Fun Facts up till this moment. But now, looking at the four members of the Norwegian folk group Hurti Slartbarten (or something like that--I may have got some of those umlauts wrong) sawing grimly away at their violins onstage, I can add that apparently, Norwegians have no access to anything resembling modern fashion. They look as if some major blockade isolated them in the late 1980s. The two girls are wearing deeply unflattering red taffeta dresses with square-cut bodices, drop waists, and flouncy skirts, the kind of frocks a vengeful bride would choose for the bridesmaids she's being forced to include in her wedding. And the two boys, in shiny red shirts tucked into black pleated trousers, could be the waiters at the same event. They are all tall and blond; I got that part right. And they're ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lauren Henderson
• Verlag: Random House Childrens Books US
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.05.2012
• EAN: 9780385737807
• ISBN: 978-0-385-73780-7
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm