Deadly Animals

Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within.

Ava Bonney is a compassionate and studious fourteen-year-old girl with a dark secret: she has an obsessive interest in the macabre. She is fascinated by the rate at which dead animals decompose. The highway she lives by regularly offers up gifts of roadkill, and in the dead of night Ava loves nothing more than to pull her latest discovery into her roadside den and record her findings.

One night, she stumbles across the body of her classmate and, fearing that her secret ritual could be revealed, she makes an anonymous call to the police. But when Detective Seth Delahaye is given the case, Ava won't step back--not while teenagers continue to go missing.

Racing alongside the police or against them, Ava is determined to figure out who is hunting her classmates before she becomes the next prey. How hard can it be to track a killer?

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.20w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9781250357595


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2024
Booklist 09/01/2024 pg. 33
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2024

About the Author
Marie Tierney was a finalist in the Daily Mail First Novel competition. When she isn't researching criminal history, she writes plays and poetry. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Marie has dedicated almost twenty years to working in education before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in East Anglia with her husband and son.