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Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
3.75

 ‘Two Can Keep a Secret’ by Karen M. McManus 🤫

🎶 Got a secret
Can you keep it?
Swear, this one you'll save
Better lock it in your pocket
Takin' this one to the grave
If I show you, then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET
IF ONE OF THEM IS DEAD 🎶

(I’ve loved this song ever since I heard it on PLL)

🔵 Summary:

“Two dead Homecoming Queens. Five years later, is the killer back?”

A perfect town is hiding secrets. Secrets that somebody would kill to keep hidden.

Echo Ridge is the town where Ellery’s aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen's murder five years ago made national news (who had been in the same year as Ellery’s aunt). And now Ellery has to live there.

Malcolm’s older brother (who was also the Homecoming Queen’s boyfriend) was the prime suspect and left Echo Ridge in disgrace. But now he's back - just as mysterious threats appear around town, hinting that a killer will strike again.

Then another girl disappears. Ellery and Malcolm must race to unravel what happened before it’s too late.

🔵 Review:

I can’t give too many deets without spoiling the book for you 😅. The book has two POVs of Ellery and Malcolm and the it’s pretty fast-paced. The writing is awesome and makes you rack your brains. You'll keep trying to guess who the murderer is but you'll never be able to guess correctly. It was so unexpected! This book makes you change your mind at the end of every page and when you finally reach the part of the ‘great revelation’, you'll be horrorstruck!

The last line gave me the chills 🥶 and I'm glad I didn't finish it late at night (*shudder*). The characters were awesome and it was really hard to guess the culprit.

@writerkmc is one of my favorite authors of the YA thriller genre. Her books are extremely intriguing and they have that high-school crime thriller/mystery teen drama TV show vibe (makes sense? 😂). Small-town murder mysteries are her forte and she’s been doing an incredible job at it.