Paper Towns by John Green

A book review by Madeline Soucie

Quentin Jacobs and Margo Roth Spiegelman used to be best friends when they were little but have grown apart over the years.  Though they went their separate ways, they haven't forgotten each other. Quentin has, not-so-secretly-to-his-best-friends, been in love with Margo for years.

        

As they get ready to graduate high school, Margo disappears again (as she has before), only this time for real. It's not a weekend disappearance with an awesome story to tell Monday morning. No -- she's gone and has left a trail of clues only Quentin can find, decipher, and follow to Margo. Of course he doesn't realize they are clues at first. They take time to be found and lead Quentin to wonder if he really knew the Margo he's chasing after. Or if anyone did.

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Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock

A book review by  Madeline Soucie

                                

Mac and Amy were best friends until Amy was killed by a werewolf. She was one of multiple attacks in Hemlock. Now Amy haunts Mac in her dreams and the Trackers -- a group that hunts werewolves -- has come to town to find the white werewolf that killed Amy and the others.

        

Lupine Syndrome has spread and become an infectious disease in the last decade. Efforts to fight it aren't going well, despite the fact that the disease is hard to hide, especially the bloodlust.

        

Mac decides that in order to stop her nightmares about Amy she has to find her killer. A highly dangerous task, Mac will recruit her friends Jason and Kyle and will stop at nothing to find the werewolf who did this.

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No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale

A book review by Madeline Soucie

    

Friendship, Wisconsin, is a small town, population now 688. Everyone knows everyone else, no one locks their doors at night, and people are always smiling. Even the police cars have smiley faces on them. In the town of Friendship, there aren't many problems besides missing pets until high school student Ruth Fried turns up dead in a cornfield.

    

Since the police are convinced they have the case closed and the suspect locked up, best friend Kippy Bushman takes it upon herself to find her friend's real killer. The only problem is in a town this small, everyone seems innocent, even the killer.

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This Wicked Game by Michelle Zink

A book review by Madeline Soucie


Claire Kincaid's family lives in New Orleans and is part of a secret society of
voodoo practitioners. Her family is one part of the International Guild of High Priests and Priestesses and runs one of the underground voodoo supply stores. 

Though Claire doesn't believe in any of this, she goes along with it for her parents' sake until she can escape to college and put this all behind her.  
That is, until a mysterious order is put in at Claire's parents' store for a black market item that raises everyone's alarms. Claire soon finds out that she doesn't know everything that's going on in the voodoo world, and if she wants to know, she'll have to find out for herself. So Claire teams up with her boyfriend Xander and the other firstborns and discover an enemy that just might kill them all.



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The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson

A book review by Madeline Soucie

       

A forensic mystery for anyone who likes forensic or murder mysteries.

   

Cameryn Mahoney is finally going to work with her dad, the town's only coroner, as his assistant to get some hands on experience. This way she'll be ready when she goes into the field as a professional.  But this isn't what she expected. Cameryn's second case with her father is a victim of a serial killer- a friend of hers. 

Cameryn has to watch her back before she becomes the next victim of The Christopher Killer.

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