Ellery, Malcolm and Mia are all driven to investigate for their own reasons. Suspicious events keep piling up: Declan Kelly has moved back home, as has Mia’s sister Daisy, another old friend of Lacey’s and more threats are found around town.
There, Ellery meets Malcolm just as he’s stumbled onto an act of vandalism: Someone in town is threatening to kill again.Īt school, Ellery meets the popular girls Katrin (Peter’s daughter and Malcolm’s stepsister), Brooke, and Viv, but she would rather be friends with Malcolm and his best friend, Mia. After being interviewed by an Officer Rodriguez, the twins go to a charity event honoring Lacey. Bowman, a high school teacher who was killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident. The novel begins with the twins discovering the body of Mr. The two leads are linked to the town’s sordid, dangerous history in ways that will surprise them. Malcolm’s mother has recently remarried Peter Nilsson, a wealthy and powerful resident of town.
The other is Malcolm Kelly, an Echo Ridge local whose brother, Declan Kelly, was suspected of murdering his high school girlfriend, Lacey Kilduff. Sadie’s identical twin sister, Sarah, disappeared when they were teenagers, and the shadow of that trauma hangs over the family. The first is Ellery Corcoran, who has moved to live with her grandmother in the small town of Echo Ridge with her twin brother, Ezra, after their actress mother, Sadie, is forced into rehab. (Jan.Two Can Keep a Secret is a story of two high schoolers told in alternating first-person point of view. Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio.
With complex characters and intricate plotting, McManus ( One of Us Is Lying) delivers a fast-paced, twisty whodunit. When one of the two possible queens goes missing, Ellery dons her amateur detective hat, putting herself and her loved ones in danger.
After the science teacher dies, Ellery is nominated for the homecoming court, and someone begins to threaten Ellery and the other two nominees for queen, tagging signs and promising a Murderland redux. Ellery, a true-crime buff, uses the opportunity to look into Echo Ridge’s notorious unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of Sadie’s identical twin sister after Sadie was crowned homecoming queen 23 years earlier, and the murder of Lacey Kilduff, the homecoming queen found strangled at Murderland, the local Halloween theme park, five years ago. A dead body in the middle of the road (the high school’s science teacher) welcomes twins Ellery and Ezra Corcoran, 17, to their new home in Echo Ridge, Vt., where they’ve been sent to live with their estranged grandmother during their mother Sadie’s court-appointed rehab for opioid addiction.
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