The Bad Ones
  • Published: 4 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241662038
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $19.99

The Bad Ones

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House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - a YA supernatural thriller about four disappearances in a town haunted by a dark magical history - and one girl's search for the truth.

A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . . .

Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who's alive?
One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora's best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth, she uncovers dark events in her high school's history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban legend: a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games . . .

As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery, it's clear there are dark forces at work in her town - and they're willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep.
  • Published: 4 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241662038
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Melissa Albert

Melissa Albert is the founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog and the managing editor of BN.com. She has written for Time Out Chicago, SparkLife, MTV and McSweeney's.

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Praise for The Bad Ones

Every line reads like an incantation

V.E. Schwab

I couldn't put it down

Karen M. McManus

PRAISE FOR MELISSA ALBERT:

Electrifyingly brilliant

Katherine Webber

Taut, haunting, and potent as a witch's brew

Krystal Sutherland

Melissa Albert brings her dark, witchy, poetic energy to The Bad Ones . . . This pleasingly knotty mystery unfurls slowly and elegantly. A delicious read.

Irish Times

A gripping story of friendship and the supernatural . . . Albert’s talent for YA fiction is magical and undeniable. I was sucked right into The Bad Ones from the start, and on the edge of my seat until the end.

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