EVERY BREATH

What if Sherlock Holmes was the boy next door? A smart, sexy thriller for teenagers.

Rachel Watts is a country girl whose family has been forced to move to the city after the banks have foreclosed on their farm. James Mycroft is an eccentric English boy, obsessed with foren- sic techniques and determined to solve the riddle of his parent’s deaths. In a dark corner be- side the city zoo, a brutal murder brings these two high-school kids closer than ever before. But this is no cozy mystery - roof monkeys, mental hospitals, zoo employees... it’s all tied together in a web of blood and insanity. And the clock is ticking - someone else is about to die. But for Rachel, the most intriguing and dangerous mystery, may be Mycroft himself and she’s having a hard time resisting his advances. Ellie Marney is a high school teacher whose adult short stories have won a number of awards, including the 2010 Scarlet Stiletto Award, run by Sisters in Crime. She has also been published in Box of Delights (Aeon Press, 2011), Scarlet Stiletto: The Second Cut (Clan Destine Press, 2011), and Award Winning Australian Writing 2009 and 2011 (Melbourne Books). She lives in Castlemaine, Victoria. Ellie is already at work on her next YA mystery, Every Word, featuring Rachel and James and set in the British Museum.