A Good Idea
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories
3.5
(75)
Cristina Moracho
Can the right kind of boy get away with killing the wrong kind of girl?Finley and Betty’s close friendship survived Fin’s ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year, they both applied to NYU, planning to reunite for good as roommates. Then Betty disappears. Her ex-boyfriend Calder admits to drowning her, but his confession is thrown out, and soon the entire town believes he was coerced and Betty has simply run away. Fin knows the truth, and she returns to Williston for one final summer, determined to get justice for her friend, even if it means putting her loved ones—and herself—at risk. But Williston is a town full of secrets, where a delicate framework holds everything together, and Fin is not the only one with an agenda. How much is she willing to damage to get her revenge and learn the truth about Betty’s disappearance, which is more complicated than she ever imagined—and infinitely more devastating?
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Author
Cristina Moracho
Pages
368
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2017-02-28
ISBN
069819859X 9780698198593
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"I would have liked this book more if I didn't come away from it feeling like there were way too many similarities between the real life case of Betty Williams and Mack Herring and the story line in this book. I feel that the author must have been inspired by the case because the similarities are apparent. Betty Williams was in plays, the victim Betty is this story was in plays.Both Betty's are frequently on cars with boys. Both have super religious parents. Both asked different people to kill them. Both wrote letters to the effect of that. Both supposedly haunt the town. It's eerily similar. The writing is well done but nothing in this book at any point (no disclaimer etc) referred to the case I've written about here and that kind of bugged me. Here's a link about the original case. http://www.inquisitr.com/2660338/betty-williams-mack-herring-a-crime-to-remember-revisits-1961-pond-murder-of-odessa-texas-teen-on-investigation-discovery/"
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