Two Can Keep a Secret (Paperback)

Echo Ridge has lost two young women in a single generation, and a newcomer arrives in town just as the pattern looks ready to repeat. Karen M. McManus builds the novel from alternating narrators, each carrying a version of events shaped by what their family has hidden, and lets small-town gossip do the work a detective would do elsewhere. Clues are planted early and paid off late, and chapters close on turns that make it difficult to stop at a sensible hour. At 336 pages it moves quickly, which suits its teenage readership without talking down to it. How it reads: • A small-town mystery told through more than one narrator • Secrets held by families as much as by suspects • Short chapters built for continuous reading • A 336-page paperback for readers aged twelve and up Well suited to teenage mystery readers and to adults who enjoy young adult thrillers, published by Penguin and available at Boipoka.