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The Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets Demon Copperhead in this new fast-paced and wickedly smart read from three-time Edgar Award nominee Lamar Giles!

Welcome to Keysbridge.

Population 5,818—and dropping.

Where I live, everyone knows something—true or false—about the Goodwin family. Some say the Goodwins are just a myth born from small-town gossip and lack of opportunities. Others have one of those red-string conspiracy boards that explains how the Goodwins basically built the town and run everything. We’re not supposed to ask questions here. Not if you know what’s good for you.

 

And yet, questions abound.

 

What if there really was one family that ran our town?  What if they messed up, and everything that had been working for years started to unravel? What if that part started at my after-school job? What if there were nine dead bodies by the end of everything? What if it was your friends dying?

 

Guess I don’t know what’s good for me because I’m going to answer them all . . .

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Lamar Giles

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Lamar Giles is the author of the acclaimed novels Ruin Road, The Getaway, The Last Last-Day-of-Summer and has written for globally beloved brands like DC Comics, Star Wars, and National Geographic.He is a three-time Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award nominee, a recipient of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Youth Literary Award, and founding member of the non-profit We Need Diverse Books. He resides in Virginia with his family.

The Particulars

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