Mary Downing Hahn

Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Cunninghams junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certaintiesfriendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she isare 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 Buddys guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocentthe lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove. Told from several different perspectives, including that of the murderer, Mister Deaths Blue-Eyed Girls is a suspenseful page-turner with a powerful human drama at its core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547822372
• Artikelnr.: 37837108

Autorenporträt

Mary Downing Hahn grew up in Maryland in the 1950s, and the crime on which this novel is based touched her own life. She is one of Clarion's most popular fiction writers and has received numerous awards, including three Edgar Awards (juvenile category) from the Mystery Writers of America and more than fifty child-voted state awards. Ms. Hahn, formerly a librarian, has written more than two dozen books and now lives in Columbia, Maryland. Visit her website at .