SYNOPSIS:
When a catastrophic hurricane devastates Stone Cove Island, a serene New England resort community, everyone pulls together to rebuild. Seventeen-year-old Eliza Elliot volunteers to clean out the island’s iconic lighthouse and stumbles upon a secret in the wreckage: a handwritten, anonymous confession to a thirty-year-old crime.
Bess Linsky’s unsolved murder has long haunted the island, and the letter turns the town inside out. Everyone who knew Bess is suddenly a suspect. Soon Eliza finds herself in the throes of an investigation she never wanted or asked for. As Stone Cove Island fights to recover from disaster, Eliza plunges the locals back into a nightmare they believed was long buried.
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WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT?
We find the combination of disaster clean-up and long-buried mystery to be a curious and tempting plot. Especially when one remembers that a high school student is at the helm of the story–which means none of her peers are going to know anything about the crime! How will Eliza uncover the truth? And what will it do to her family and town?
On the cover, we see Eliza alone at the end of the dock, looking out over the vast ocean. In the background, on one side we have the lighthouse where she finds the anonymous confession; on the other, a storm cloud brews in the distance, headed toward her island home. It is an ominous image, instantly recognizable as a contemporary offering.
This is the debut YA novel for author Suzanne Myers. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Toronto, Canada, Suzanne is a graduate of Princeton University and USC Film School. Her film ALCHEMY won the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature at the SXSW film festival. These days, Suzanne lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two sons, and two dogs.
EARLY REVIEWS SAY…
Myers’s debut has an interesting plot, is written in a language appropriate for its intended audience, and has an important theme, change, at its center… A nice supplementary work in any strong realistic fiction collection. (School Library Journal)
NECESSARY DETAILS
YA Mystery
Hardcover & ebook,240 pages
Published on November 11th 2014 by Soho Teen (ISBN 161695437X)
http://sohopress.com/books/stone-cove-island/
Purchase at Stone Cove Island