![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Eileen Cook's exceptional plotting, You Owe Me a Murder becomes a magnificent melding of relationship angst with psychological thriller. From start to finish, it's more like a high-wire act: tense, dangerous, and unrelenting. ![]() I would call You Owe Me a Murder a roller-coaster except that ride suggests highs and lows and twists and turns and this young adult novel has no lows. So while sightseeing in London and relishing a budding romance, Kim tries to evade a drunken commitment to homicide, investigate the mysterious Nicki, and keep herself and others safe from a girl who purports to be owed a murder. Worst of all, Nicki still has the incriminating document and is using it to blackmail Kim into murdering her mother. Worse still, the police begin investigating and Kim realizes her silence about her relationship with Connor is going to make her look suspicious. Panicking, Kim doesn't know to whom she can turn. Of course, Kim barely remembers their laughable discussion until Connor is killed in a Tube station and she gets a message that reads "You're welcome" along with the news story about his death. But in that vodka-infused venting session, Kim prepares a list titled "WHY I HATE CONNOR O'REILLY AND WHY HE DESERVES TO DIE" and Nicki suggests that she will kill Connor and Kim could kill Nicki's mom whose alcoholism is making her life miserable. ![]()
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