• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 August #1
  If you're willing to suspend your disbelief, you'll be treated to '80s-era Silence of the Lambs, where the lead roles are held by teens. Do it. You won't be disappointed. Emma Lewis—18, white, and fiery—is approached by FBI Agent Cooper, who has an unexpected proposition. He'd like her to be part of a team conducting interviews with imprisoned teen serial killers. Though skeptical, she agrees to join Agent Cooper and teammate Travis Bell, a biracial Latinx teen, at Quantico. So why Emma and Travis? Both have personal experience with serial killers: Emma, once a near victim, and Travis, son of a murdered U.S. marshal. The stakes skyrocket when Emma and Travis' project becomes entwined with an active, potentially young killer—the Berryville Butcher. Readers entranced by Mindhunter will eat this up, and Marney provides them with layered, damaged characters, well-executed twists, skin-crawling details of murder scenes, and a brutally charged atmosphere as the story reaches its climax. All signs point to Emma and Travis working another case, which is excellent news for this thriller's inevitable fans. Grades 9-12. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

Ellie Marney is a teacher and an author of fiction for Young Adults. Her YA crime trilogy, the Every series, and her YA stand alone, White Night, have been critically and commercially successful in Australia and overseas -- her debut, Every Breath, was shortlisted for the Gold Inky Award, the Ned Kelly Award and the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (YA), and in 2015 was named by the Australian Library Information Association as one of the top ten most-borrowed YA books in Australian libraries. Ellie is a regular speaker at festivals and events, teaches writing and publishing through Writers Victoria, and advocates for Australian women's writing as a Stella Ambassador in schools. She lives in regional north-central Victoria, with her partner (also a teacher) and their four sons.