Ten: Quick ConfusionPOSTED ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2014Disclosure: I’ve yet to finish the book, but wanted to make a quick point.Gretchen McNeil‘s young adult mystery/thriller Ten is a retelling of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (which was adapted for the stage and screen, sometimes under th...
JOSIE WAS JUST SITTING DOWN AT HER SOLO lunch table when she got the text from Penelope. Meet me in the lab. Stat. She didn’t need to be told twice. Penelope bounced excitedly on her stool as Josie rushed into the classroom. ...
HALLELUJAH!“Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hal-le-e-lujah!”AT A VIGOROUS NOD FROM MS. TEMPLETON, Bridget leaned forward and flipped the top edge of the score; the pianist’s nimble fingers didn’t miss a single orchestrally transcribed note. Handel’s famous chorus ticked along under Mr. Vincent’s baton. T...
“We didn’t do it,” he said immediately. “Do it?” T.J. said. “Kill him. K and I didn’t do it.” T.J. held his hands up in front of him. “Hold up. No one said anything about—” “It was murder,” Meg said. She was surprised how calm she sounded. T.J. looked at her sidelong. “Are you sure?” Meg nodded. ...
FIFTEEN BREE WASN’T SURE HOW LONG SHE’D BEEN CRYING. HER chest had continued to heave for what felt like forever as the uncontrollable sobs overwhelmed her. If her mom didn’t want a daughter, then Bree didn’t want her either. Only she did. Desperately. In the back of her mind, Bree had always bla...
A return to normalcy? A full reset, as if Ronny’s murder had never happened? Totally unrealistic, she realized, but still, unconsciously, she’d hoped that life at Bishop DuMaine would go back to its regularly scheduled programming. No such luck. The police were still out in full force. In fact, i...