IN CASE I GO MISSING

#YA crime / #young debut author / #Bologna discovery Seventeen-year-old Fenny has been Sarah's sidekick for as long as she can remember. Now, Sarah is missing. The police have written her off as yet another teen runaway, but Fenny discovers a binder Sarah left behind entitled: In Case I Go Missing. It contains secrets so explosive it had the power to shake the town to its very foundations. Together with her friends Sam, Fenny starts to ask questions, some of them could be deadly.

Fenny has been Sarah's sidekick for as long as she can remember, ever since the two of them solved the mystery of the stolen library books back in elementary school. Over the years, Sarah has ruffled a few feathers in their small town, building a reputation as both an amateur detective and a vigilante, who has uncovered long-buried secrets and dispensed her own form of justice. Now, Sarah is missing. The police have written her off as yet another teen runaway, but Fenny is convinced that something much more sinister has happened to her friend. When she discovers a binder Sarah left behind entitled In Case I Go Missing, Fenny learns that, at the time of her disappearance, Sarah was investigating her biggest case yet, one so explosive it had the power to shake the town to its very foundations. Fenny knows that it's up to her to finish what Sarah had begun, and together with her friend, Sam, Fenny picks up where Sarah left off. As they piece together the clues that Sarah left for them, they find themselves up against a decades-old mystery involving some of the town's most respected citizens - one that links to the town's dark history, buried for over a century. The more the pair uncover, the clearer it becomes that those involved will go to great lengths to keep their secrets buried - even as far as murder. This is both a tightly-plotted, twist-filled mystery and a bittersweet novel about friendship and coming of age in a small town. It marks an impressive new voice in YA fiction, and I hope it captures your attention the way it captured mine. Rin Swann is a 23 year old debut writer from Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Iowa and is currently living in Baltimore with her two cats, Havoc and Toast. When she isn't writing, she works in communications, listens to podcasts, and enjoys adding to her increasingly large collection of flavored tea. She is currently working on a second novel called WHAT THEY SAW, inspired by the Mothman legend and an amateur ghosthunter.