Mystery, Murder and Deception: Page-Turning Suspense Thrillers

Julie Shepard has an English degree from the University of Florida and a teaching degree in Middle Grades English. Her debut, the YA novel Rosie Girl (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers), is a riveting story of a troubled teen searching for her birth mom who uncovers disturbing family secrets along the way. School Library Journal writes, “Filled with unforgettable characters and expertly paced, the novel takes readers down many paths to an unexpected and shocking ending that packs a punch. . . .”

(Weingarten, Lynn) Lynn Weingarten is a book editor and New York Times bestselling author. Her Young Adult novel, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls is a New York Times bestseller and was on Vanity Fair's list of Best Books for July. Her previous books include Wherever Nina Lies and The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers. In the past, Lynn edited books and developed ideas for Alloy Entertainment. She is currently a commissioning editor/idea developer for Working Partners. Bad Girls with Perfect Faces (Simon Pulse) is a stylish thriller about the darkness that lurks inside all of us. When Sasha’s best friend Xavier gets back together with his cheating ex, Ivy, Sasha knows she needs to protect him. So she poses as a guy online to lure Ivy away. But Sasha’s plan goes sickeningly wrong. And she soon learns to be careful of who you pretend to be because you might be surprised by who you become…Told in multiple points of view, Bad Girls with Perfect Faces is sexy and twisted with shocks at every turn.

(Thrash, Maggie) Maggie Thrash grew up in the South. She is the author of the graphic memoir Honor Girl (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee). Her books Strange Truth and Strange Lies were inspired by her experiences at an exclusive prep school in Atlanta, where everyone had secrets. Strange Lies (Simon Pulse) is her most recent book. Only at Winship Academy would an evening science expo turn into a criminal fiasco. First, there’s the anonymous boy in the girls’ bathroom handing out drugs to anyone with the secret password. Then the student body president is maimed in a horrifying and tragic accident—but was it an accident or an attack? Benny Flax and Virginia Leeds are right at the center of it all. And so is the headmaster’s son, Calvin Harker, an oddball poet whose interest in Virginia sets off alarm bells for Benny. As the case bleeds from Winship Academy to the surrounding city, the deep fault lines of racial tension in Atlanta’s history reveal explosive hatred still simmering under the city’s surface.