num_pages: 336
description: Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-old mystery a copycat killing and the teen who won't stop until she discovers the truth.After the death of her mom (screw cancer) seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town . . . until the homecoming queen is murdered. And shes not Seaviews first pretty dead queen. With a copycat killer on the loose Cecelia throws herself into the investigation determined to crack the case like the heroines in her grandmothers books. But the more Cecelia digs into the towns secrets the more she worries that her own mystery might not have a storybook ending.
language: English
title: Pretty Dead Queens
publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers