Mister Deathâs Blue-Eyed Girls
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Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunninghamâs junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties, friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is â are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy Novak, who had every reason to want his ex-girlfriend dead, is responsible for the killings. Nora agrees at first, then begins to doubt Buddyâs guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocent â the lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove. Told from several different perspectives, including that of the murderer, Mister Deathâs Blue-Eyed Girls is a suspenseful page-turner with a powerful human drama at its core.
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