The Amateurs - The Amateurs (Paperback)
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The Amateurs - The Amateurs (Paperback)

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Paperback 336 Pages / Published: 06/10/2016
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Everyone's dying to know the truth . . . When Aerin Kelly was eleven, she idolised her seventeen-year-old sister, Helena, and they did everything together. They made Claymation movies and posted them to YouTube. They made fun of Windmere-Carruthers, the private school they attended, they invented new flavours for their parents' organic ice cream shop, and they dressed up their golden retriever, Buster. But when Helena went into senior year things started to change. Rather than being Aerin's inseparable sister, she started to push her away. Then, on a snowy winter's day, Helena vanished. Four years later, Helena's body is found. Wracked with grief and refusing to give up on her sister, Aerin spends months trying to figure out what exactly happened to Helena and who killed her. But the police have no leads. A young, familiar officer named Thomas wants to help and suggests she checks out a website called Case Not Closed. Hesitantly, she posts, and when teenagers Seneca and Maddox show up on her doorstep offering to help investigate she accepts in desperation. Both have suffered their own losses and also posted to the site with no luck, so they are hoping this case might be the one they crack. But as their investigation begins, it seems that maybe it's no accident that they are all together, and that maybe the crimes have something - or someone - in common.

Publisher: Hot Key Books
ISBN: 9781471405266
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 268 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS
A clever, well-structured mystery -- Kimberley McCreight, New York Times Best-Selling Author of 'The Outliers'
Fast-paced action, humour and romance -- Katharine McGee, author of 'The Thousandth Floor'
Devious and thrilling -- Kass Morgan, New York Times Best-Selling author of 'The 100'
High stakes, high-octane, compulsively readable suspense -- Kami Garcia, New York Times Best-Selling Coauthor of 'Beautiful Creatures'
A classic whodunit with a contemporary edge -- Cecily Von Ziegesar, New York Times Best-Selling Author of 'The Gossip Girl'
A dark and twisty thriller which might just fill the Pretty Little Liars-shaped hole in my heart -- Danielle Paige, New York Times Best-Selling Author of 'Dorothy Must Die'
A delicious and suspenseful page-turner -- I. Marlene King, Executive Producer, Pretty Little Liars
This is a gloriously twisty who-dunnit (...) the ending was a stroke of pure genius and was brilliant because I never saw it coming. The Amateurs was a super read and I'm thrilled that there will be another instalment in the series next year. There's no doubt that I will be lining up to get my hands on it * A Dream of Books *
Shepard weaves a clever web of suspicion and intrigue. I made several guesses as the book progresses - all very wide of the mark - but there's never any sense of being deliberately led up the garden path. The characters grew on me as more about them and their motivations is revealed. The final reveal was as shocking as it was unexpected. * Crime Review *

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“Brilliant!”

This book was so gripping! The characters are relatable and so easy to engage with, it's written in a way which makes you feel as though you are part of the gang and solving the mystery with them! It's... More

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“Sara Shepard is the queen of writing addictive serialised murder mysteries”

I love a good detective and no-one does young adult murder mystery quite as well as Sara Shepard, author of Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, The Perfectionists and many more ace series with kick-ass teenage... More

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