The Quarry Girls: A Thriller
Killers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime.
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games.
Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears--the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.
Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can't stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger.
She also knows she's next.
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Community Reviews
"The law might not recognize it, but fifteenâs a girl and sixteen a woman, and you get no map from one land to the next."
A gut-wrenching tale of girlhood on the precipice of womanhood and the very real (based on a true story) danger that incurs. The novel expertly captured the fear and familiar feeling of being watched. It brought me back to moments I made poor decisions and the moments I, as an older sister, tried to impart the learned experiences onto my younger sister only to be horrified by the reality the she would have to learn some things herself. Women are fierce survivors of the sting of puberty and the constant watchful eyes thereafter, always hungry.
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