E! has put the mystery-thriller in development for a TV series. Karen’s debut, One of Us Is Lying, is a huge success with staying power on the New York Times bestseller list. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it’s safest to keep your secrets to yourself. The thing is, secrets are dangerous-and most people aren’t good at keeping them. And the longer she’s in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. Her mother has them her grandmother does too. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.Įllery knows all about secrets.
And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. The town is picture-perfect, but it’s hiding secrets. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. Ellery’s never been there, but she’s heard all about it. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller One of Us Is Lying and of Two Can Keep a Secret.Įcho Ridge is small-town America. When she isn’t working or writing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, McManus loves to travel with her son. McManus earned her BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross and her MA in journalism from Northeastern University.
Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio. With complex characters and intricate plotting, McManus ( One of Us Is Lying) delivers a fast-paced, twisty whodunit. When one of the two possible queens goes missing, Ellery dons her amateur detective hat, putting herself and her loved ones in danger. After the science teacher dies, Ellery is nominated for the homecoming court, and someone begins to threaten Ellery and the other two nominees for queen, tagging signs and promising a Murderland redux.
Ellery, a true-crime buff, uses the opportunity to look into Echo Ridge’s notorious unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of Sadie’s identical twin sister after Sadie was crowned homecoming queen 23 years earlier, and the murder of Lacey Kilduff, the homecoming queen found strangled at Murderland, the local Halloween theme park, five years ago. A dead body in the middle of the road (the high school’s science teacher) welcomes twins Ellery and Ezra Corcoran, 17, to their new home in Echo Ridge, Vt., where they’ve been sent to live with their estranged grandmother during their mother Sadie’s court-appointed rehab for opioid addiction.
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