Stone Cove Island

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When a catastrophic hurricane devastates Stone Cove Island, a quaint New England resort community, everyone pulls together to rebuild. Seventeen-year-old Eliza Elliot volunteers to clean out the island's iconic lighthouse and stumbles upon a secret in the wreckage: a handwritten letter. On first glance, it hardly makes sense. But the longer Eliza studies it, the more convinced she becomes that it's an anonymous confession to a thirty-year-old crime: the unsolved murder of a local teen named Bess Linsky.

Soon Eliza finds herself in the throes of an investigation she never wanted or asked for. As Stone Cove Island fights to recover from disaster, Eliza plunges the locals back into a nightmare they believed was long buried.

Everybody is a suspect. Everywhere she turns, there might be an enemy. And everything she ever believed about her hometown is false.

Critics Review

u201cDonu2019t just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a nhurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with nsecrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.u201d

Judy Blundell, National Book Awardu2013winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied

u201cMyersu2019 debut has an interesting plot, is written in a language appropriate for its intended audience, and has an important theme, change, at its center.u201d

School Library Journal

u201cThe tension between Elizau2019s need to [solve the murder] and the possibility that her discoveries could hurt those she loves is mined to brilliant effect, rendering each suspect villainous and sympathetic by turns. [Has] a final, stunning twistu2026Taut and atmospheric.u201d

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

u201cThe youthful voice of Jorjeana Marie is perfect for this easy-paced debutu2026Marieu2019s skillful rendering of youthful characters Eliza, Ben, and Joe and their search for answers is age appropriate and authentic. A more mature tone characterizes Elizau2019s parents and the secretive townspeople who are determined to stop Elizau2019s investigation into the decades-old crime. Marie assumes an edgy quality that adds to the suspense as long-buried secrets emerge in a mystery that will appeal to both young adult and older listeners.u201d

AudioFile

u201cAn atmospheric thriller where nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a twisted secret to hide, Stone Cove Islandn keeps you guessing from page one. It might also make you think twice nabout what goes on behind closed doors in that quaint little vacation ntown you love so much.u201d

Kate Brian, author of the Private series

u201cA classic suspense tale, a Hitchcock movie for teens. I read it in one hungry gulp.u201d

Natalie Standiford, author of How to Say Goodbye in Robot

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