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WATCH THE GIRLS

Jennifer Wolfe

Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense.

Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life, and her sister was never heard from again. But all this time, someone's been waiting patiently to finish what was started...

Now fifteen years later, broke and desperate, Liv is forced to return to the spotlight. She crowdfunds a webseries in which she'll pose as a real-life private detective--a nod to the show she starred on as a teen. When a mysterious donor challenges her to investigate a series of disappearances outside a town made famous by the horror movies filmed there, Liv has no choice but to accept.

Liv is given a cryptic first clue: Follow the white wolf. And now a darker game is about to begin. Through social media, someone is leaving breadcrumbs to follow. As Liv makes increasingly disturbing discoveries, her show explodes in popularity. A rapt internet audience is eager to watch it all--perhaps even at the cost of Liv's own life...

Filled with provocative twists and turns as the line between plot and reality blurs in this inventive tour-de-force from breakout writer Jennifer Wolfe.

Author and screenwriter Jennifer Wolfe grew up in a small town where there was nothing to do but read and get into trouble. She did plenty of both, which led her to a career writing about people who get in trouble. Jennifer recently escaped from Los Angeles and is now hiding out in Portland, Oregon with a couple of long-legged dogs. In her spare time, she can be found watching horror movies and dreaming of starting her own hippie commune, where there will be many goats.
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Published 2018-07-01 by Grand Central Publishing

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Debut author Wolfe has created a compelling, sympathetic character in Liv, a scared, lonely woman who acts jaded and tough but grieves over a missing sister of her own. The author takes readers on a psychologically dark ride through a twisted underworld of fame and desperation, a journey that will keep readers guessing until the shocking ending.

YA author Wolfe makes her adult debut with a devastating novel that evokes Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch...this disturbing, surrealistic thriller will keep readers spellbound. (starred review)

Fast-paced and fraught with suspense, Watch the Girls unravels like a perfect summer-night movie.

A TV actress has two missing sisters in this campy debut thriller by Wolfe...The story is fast-paced as Liv secretly films, texts, and Tweets her way through bizarre encounters with a screaming mountain lion, howling wolves, animal masks, a blood-red house, a cabin in the woods, steamy sexual hookups, pie shops, and more. This novel revels in its weird creepiness and its roots in reality TV shows and horror movies.

Wolfe's got the goods. Timely, harrowing, and vividly imagined, Watch the Girls is a wild ride with style to burn. —Chris Holm, Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Hand

Twisty, tense, and addictive, Watch the Girls is like a great horror flick, a classic mystery, and an edgy piece of social commentary—all wrapped up into one dark, delicious package. Jennifer Wolfe is a huge new talent. Welcome to the book everyone will be reading this summer. —Brad Parks, author of Closer Than You Know