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SkyHorse/Skypony

Annotation: For fans of Belzhar , We Were Liars , and Emily Dickinson, a literary suspense that will keep readers turning pages, wondering what's real.

Genre: [Mystery fiction]

Reviews: 2

Catalog Number: #280693

Format: Publisher's Hardcover

Publisher: SkyHorse/Skypony

Edition Date: 2018 Release Date: 07/31/18

Pages: 351 pages

ISBN: 1-510-73405-8

ISBN 13: 978-1-510-73405-0

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2018011023

Dimensions: 22 cm

Subject Heading:
Murder. Fiction.
Boarding schools. Fiction.
Schools. Fiction.
Friendship. Fiction.
Mystery and detective stories.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book (Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2019)

Markus's psychological thriller builds in mystery and suspense as Emily, a passionate scholar of Emily Dickinson, struggles to unravel the links between her own history and an unsolved murder that occurred on the grounds of her small, unstructured girls' boarding school. The strong, smart, and emotionally vibrant characters are intriguing, especially for fans of Dickinson's life and poetry.

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Horn Book (Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2019)
Kirkus Reviews

Reading Level: 9.0

Interest Level: 9-12

Everyone Emily has ever loved has been brutally murdered. The killer has never been caught, but Emily knows who’s responsible.
She is.
It’s the only possible explanation. Emily is the one thing all the victims have in common, which can only mean that someone—or something—is killing them to make her suffer.
Determined never to subject another person to the same horrible fate as her parents, friends, and pets, Emily sequesters herself at a private boarding school, keeping her classmates at a distance with well-timed insults and an unapproachable air. Day after day, she loses herself in the writing of Emily Dickinson—the poet makes a perfect friend, since she’s already dead.
Emily’s life is lonely, but it’s finally peaceful. That is, until two things happen. A corpse appears on the steps of the school. And a new girl insists on getting close to Emily—unknowingly setting herself up to become the killer’s next victim.

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