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The Wicked Girls
Penguin Group (USA). Aug. 2013. 384p. ISBN 9780143123866. pap. $16. F
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Marwood's riveting debut novel explores how a single act of violence committed by two 11-year-old girls not only shadows the rest of their lives but also connects them to a series of killings at a seaside vacation community years later. It's been 25 years since Jade Walker and Annabel Oldacre were convicted of murder, and their lives have taken dramatically different turns. Jade, now known as Kirsty, is a journalist with a dedicated husband and two children. Bel, now called Amber, supervises the evening cleaning shift at an amusement park on the boardwalk in Whitmouth. When young women begin to turn up dead in Whitmouth, Kirsty and Amber reconnect by chance. The rash of killings threatens to expose their carefully guarded secrets—and for one of them, these new murders hit very close to home.
VERDICT Marwood has written a terrific thriller, full of dark turns and dread, and the twisty ending will stick with readers long after they finish the book. Fans of intelligent page-turners by such authors as Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn will snatch this one up. [This title is a 2013 Thriller Award nominee for Best Paperback Original Novel.—Ed.]
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