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Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

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Bonfire

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"A well-plotted mystery with a self-reliant yet flawed heroine that delivers an intense, satisfying payoff."

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From actress, producer, and writer Krysten Ritter, a gripping, tightly wound suspense novel about a woman forced to confront her past in the wake of small-town corruption.

It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.

But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’s biggest scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good.

Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret—ritual called "The Game"—it will threaten reputations, and lives, in the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.

With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote rural town of just five claustrophobic square miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide.

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My last year of high school, when Kaycee Mitchell and her friends got sick, my father had a bunch of theories. "Those girls are bad news," he said. "Nothing but trouble." He took it as a matter of faith that they were being punished. To him, they deserved what they got. Kaycee was the first. This made sense. She was the first to do everything: lose her virginity, try a cigarette, throw a party. Kaycee walked in front of her friends, like an alpha wolf leading the pack. In the cafeteria, she decided where to sit and the others followed; if she ate her lunch, the rest did, too; if she pushed her food around on her tray or just ate a bag of Swedish fish, her friends did the same. Misha was the meanest and the loudest one. But Kaycee was the leader. So when she got sick, we, the senior girls of Barrens High, weren't horrified or disturbed or worried. We were jealous. We all secretly hoped we'd be next.

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Famous Last Words
The Boyfriend
Count My Lies
First Lie Wins
King of Ashes
The Man Made of Smoke
A Talent for Murder
Beautiful Ugly
One Perfect Couple
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Retreat
Kill for Me, Kill for You
Bad Tourists
Murder Road
Daughter of Mine
The Fury
The Soulmate
The Only One Left
Dark Corners
Blacktop Wasteland
All the Dangerous Things
The Broken Girls
We Were Never Here
The Golden Couple
The Stranger Upstairs
Gone Tonight
Too Good to Be True
You Are Not Alone
Rock Paper Scissors
Not a Happy Family
A Flicker in the Dark
Reckless Girls
The House Across the Lake
The Maidens
You're Invited
The Last Party
Sharp Objects
None of This Is True
The Silent Patient
The Family Upstairs
Girl A
The Hunting Wives
Just Another Missing Person
First Born
Breathless
You Belong Here
Forget Me Not
59 Minutes
Where He Left Me
Anatomy of an Alibi
The First Time I Saw Him
My Husband’s Wife
It’s Not Her
The Exes
Her Last Breath
Nothing Tastes as Good