Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

Mary Downing Hahn

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Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties--friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is--are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy Novak, who had every reason to want his ex-girlfriend dead, is responsible for the killings. Nora agrees at first, then begins to doubt Buddy's guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocent--the lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove. Told from several different perspectives, including that of the murderer, Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls is a suspenseful page-turner with a powerful human drama at its core.

Book Details

Publisher: Clarion Books
Publish Date: Apr 16th, 2013
Pages: 336
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.50in - 0.80in - 0.75lb
EAN: 9780544022249
Recommended age: 12-UP
Categories: • Mysteries & Detective Stories• Law & Crime• Girls & Women

About the Author

Hahn, Mary Downing: -

Mary Downing Hahn's many acclaimed novels include such beloved ghost stories as Wait Till Helen Comes, Deep and Dark and Dangerous, and Took. A former librarian, she has received more than fifty child-voted state awards for her work. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, with a cat named Nixi.

Praise for this book

A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2012 * "An engrossing exploration of how a murder affects a community."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "This is a thinking-teen's mystery."--Bulletin "Hahn emphasizes the universality of growing up and facing death."--Horn Book * "This wrenching novel offers an aggregate portrait of the effects of loss and grief, including both the strengthening and dissolution of relationships."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "This creepy tale slowly and craftily builds tension . . . It has the added feature of offering a unique snapshot of life in the 1950's."--School Library Journal "The veracity of this tragedy raises the stakes for readers who are already fans of Hahn's supernatural fiction, and the coming-of-age component of Nora's shattered naïveté is all the more searing."--Bulletin
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