Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy
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Released January 2, 2018
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Beautiful. Perfect. Dead.
In the peaceful seaside town of Cape Bonita, wicked secrets and lies are hidden just beneath the surface. But all it takes is one tragedy for them to be exposed.
The most popular girls in school are turning up dead, and Penelope Malone is terrified she’s next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to a boy from her physics class. The one she’s never really noticed before, with the rumored dark past and a brooding stare that cuts right through her.
There’s something he isn’t telling her. But there’s something she’s not telling him, either.
Everyone has secrets, and theirs might get them killed.
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“She was also a friend – and sometimes an enemy, if I’m being completely honest. And now… she’s dead.”
Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy was an outstanding emotionally charged read fueled by the need to discover who is killing all of these girls, the girls that run this school. It was agonizing to try to discover who the killer was, especially because we did read some of the killers point of view. Honestly the killers point of view was the most intriguing for me to read.
“It’s much easier to put this on a complete stranger who wandered into town and killed without thought. Cape Bonita is a small wealthy town along the northern coast of California coast. We don’t do murder.”
Pretty Dead Girls follows along with Penelope, the President of the Larks an elite group of juniors and seniors who volunteer and are mostly cheerleaders, and the outcast, Cass as they try to track down who the true murder is before it’s too late for them. They each have a connection to all of the girls who have been killed.
“I’m practically a dead girl walking.”
Pretty Dead Girls is like a more intense version of Mean Girls, where the mean girls are end up dead and no one knows why. These girls are held to a higher standard than the others in the school and I had so much fun traveling along with Pen and Cass as we try to track down the killer.
Pretty Dead Girls is also high on the drama and you won’t know who you can trust and who you can’t and you will be screaming ‘don’t go upstairs alone!’ or any where by yourself.
Monica Murphy’s writing was exceptional and I devoured this story at a fervent intensity and I couldn’t put it down!
If you enjoy young adult mysteries you need to check out One of Us is Lying too!!
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