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Zusatztext 2021-2022 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee "Gripping and unsettling." -- Kirkus Review s "A suspenseful, surprising story with a vivid sense of place." --Publishers Weekly "Donaldson's novel is a fast-paced investigation of all the people who might want to hurt Zahra, with a massive twist at the end readers will not see coming." --Booklist "This story with its mounting plot twists and unreliable narrator is an intriguing page-turner." --School Library Connection "Well-drawn details of Ruthie’s Alaska and its multi-faceted characters embed the reader into Ruthie’s world." --VOYA Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Donaldson graduated from Reed College and received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the author of Lies You Never Told Me . Jennifer currently lives in Austin with her family. Klappentext Jennifer Donaldson is back with another twisted thriller perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Sadie . Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the only person who ever really understood her--and she vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Zahra vanished from a party just days before Ruthie's return, but the more people she talks to, the more she realizes that the Zahra she knew disappeared long before that fateful night. Gone is the whimsical, artistic girl who loved books and knew Ruthie's every secret. In her place is an athlete, a partier, a girl with secrets of her own. Darker still are the rumors that something happened to Zahra while Ruthie was gone, something that changed her forever... As Ruthie desperately tries to piece together the truth, she falls deeper and deeper into her friend's new world, circling closer to a dangerous revelation about what happened to Zahra in the days before her disappearance--one that might be better off buried. In her stunning follow-up to Lies You Never Told Me , Jennifer Donaldson once again delivers a propulsive thriller with a masterful twist, skillfully creating a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Zusammenfassung Jennifer Donaldson is back with another twisted thriller perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Sadie . Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away! Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage! Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the only person who ever really understood her--and she vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Zahra vanished from a party just days before Ruthie's return! but the more people she talks to! the more she realizes that the Zahra she knew disappeared long before that fateful night. Gone is the whimsical! artistic girl who loved books and knew Ruthie's every secret. In her place is an athlete! a partier! a girl with secrets of her own. Darker still are the rumors that something happened to Zahra while Ruthie was gone! something that changed her forever... As Ruthie desperately tries to piece together the truth! she falls deeper and deeper into her friend's new world! circling closer to a dangerous revelation about what happened to Zahra in the days before her disappearance--one that might be better off buried. In her stunning follow-up to Lies You Never Told Me ! Jennifer Donaldson once again delivers a propulsive thriller with a masterful twist! skillfully creating a world where nothing is quite as it seems. ...
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2021-2022 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee
"Gripping and unsettling." --Kirkus Reviews
"A suspenseful, surprising story with a vivid sense of place." --Publishers Weekly
"Donaldson's novel is a fast-paced investigation of all the people who might want to hurt Zahra, with a massive twist at the end readers will not see coming." --Booklist
"This story with its mounting plot twists and unreliable narrator is an intriguing page-turner." --School Library Connection
"Well-drawn details of Ruthie s Alaska and its multi-faceted characters embed the reader into Ruthie s world." --VOYA
