PARASITES

A debut YA thriller about the toxic issues and challenges of social media.

Following the suspicious death of her friend Antoine Rivard, Billie knows she can no longer hide. Wasp, a mysterious app that seems to feed off young people's private information and their fascination with the private lives of others, is daring teens in the area to do challenges that just keep getting riskier. Billie, Greg, Zach, Kat and Steeven weren't exactly born to get along, but they have no other choice but to join forces if they want to discover what happened to Antoine and how much Wasp might be to blame.

“ We look at each other for a moment. Kat smiles and presses Play. An emerald-green wasp and its prey start to move on the screen. Together, the two insects dance a cruel tango, each fighting to possess the other, each desperate to escape the other's clutches. But one tiny sting is all it takes to end this dance. Zombi?ed by the venom, enslaved, the cockroach can only follow as the wasp drags it away by the antennae. ”

Bestselling author Marie-Ève Bourassa won the 2017 Arthur Ellis Award for the best adult Canadian crime novel published in French and the 2016 Jacques-Mayer Award at the Saint-Pâcome Crime Fiction Festival for the first volume in her Red Light trilogy (VLB Éditeur).