Frozen Beauty
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Everyone in Devil’s Lake knows the three golden Malloy sisters—but one of them is keeping a secret that will turn their little world inside out….
No one knows exactly what happened to Kit in the woods that night—not even her sisters, Tessa and Lilly. All they have are a constellation of facts: icy blue lips and fingers cold to the touch, a lacy bra, an abandoned pick-up truck with keys still in the ignition.
Even though everyone is quick to jump to conclusions, Tessa is certain that her sister’s killer wasn’t Boyd, the boy next door whom they’ve all loved in their own way. Still, there are too many details that don’t add up, too many secrets tucked away in the past.
But no matter how fiercely Tessa searches for answers, at the core of that complicated night is a truth that’s heartbreakingly simple.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sisters Kit, 17; Tessa, 16; and Lilly, 15, and the brotherly boy next door, 16-year-old Boyd, have been close since childhood, but crushes and loyalties begin to shift once they enter their teens. When Kit is found dead in the woods one freezing winter night, Lilly, convinced she saw Kit with Boyd that evening, accuses him, landing him in jail. But Tessa whom Boyd kissed two days before Kit's death has strong doubts, and she sets out to find the killer, hoping that the DNA she shares with her older sister, which "slimed off on her... in her mother's womb," a trait known as chimerism, will help allow her to relive the experiences leading to Kit's death. Hillyer (Winter Glass) tells the story from several perspectives the sisters' (including Kit's, via poems she wrote while living), Boyd's, and that of high school sophomore Patrick Donovan, new in town and of questionable character carefully structuring this compelling murder mystery into "Before" and "Now" chapters, subtly weaving essential clues into the narrative, and imperceptibly casting suspicion on several characters. Her adept craftsmanship, however, is shattered by a deus-ex-machina ending that results in an awkward resolution to an otherwise skillfully built and evocatively written tale of suspense. Ages 13 up.
