Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

By Mary Downing Hahn

Book Overview

Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties--friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is--are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy Novak, who had every reason to want his ex-girlfriend dead, is responsible for the killings. Nora agrees at first, then begins to doubt Buddy's guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocent--the lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove. Told from several different perspectives, including that of the murderer, Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls is a suspenseful page-turner with a powerful human drama at its core.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544022246
• ISBN13: 9780544022249
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher