![]() ![]() Each depicted a snippet of a larger image, but they had been scrambled, rotated. Persey swallowed, her eyes darting around the touch screen at the sixteen cryptic squares filled with color and lines and shadows. But between the ticking clock, the stress of the moment, and the physical proximity of their bodies, Persey could feel herself absorbing the anxiety that dripped off her teammates in heavy, saplike beads, which made it super freaking difficult to focus on the image before her. Instead of starting a fight, she concentrated on not internalizing their tension. She could feel their dank breaths against her neck in a claustrophobic (creepy) way and fought the urge to start throwing elbows to get them to back off. Persey tried to ignore the voice booming through the loudspeaker, but it was impossible with three people crowded in behind, desperately waiting for her answer. ![]() Whether readers are new to the #MurderTrending sensation or hungrily back for more, this wickedly campy prequel companion novel delivers a read you won’t want to escape. She uncovers secrets about each contestant along the way, learning they’re all mysteriously related-and someone is out for vengeance. When contestants start being killed off, Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive. But while most escape rooms are about teamwork and collaboration, this one is all about being cut-throat- literally. When seventeen-year-old Persey, along with five other teens, enters the latest escape room game, they’re competing for a grand cash prize. Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2.0, long before Becca survived The Juggernaut and Who Wants to Be a Painiac?, the murder games first began with the wildly popular “escape room” trend. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel. The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Horror, Comedy Visit Gretchen online at LINKS: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | YouTube Gretchen is repped by Ginger Clark of Ginger Clark Literary. Season 1 premiered in 2020 and season 2 will stream on Netflix in the fall of 2022. Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of TEN starring China Anne McClain premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and GET EVEN and GET DIRTY have been adapted as the series Get Even for BBC and Netflix. Gretchen’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages all over the world. Her next novel for Disney-Hyperion is DIG TWO GRAVES, pitched as YA Strangers on a Train, which hits shelves on Apfollowed by THREE DROPS OF BLOOD in 2023. Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels for Disney-Hyperion and Balzer + Bray including POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, I’M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN, as well as the horror/comedy novels #MURDERTRENDING-the #1 YALSA Teens’ Top Ten pick for 2019-#MURDERFUNDING, and #NOESCAPE. LINKS: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | YouTube Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of TEN starring China Anne McClain ( Descendants 2, Black Lightning) premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and GET EVEN and GET DIRTY have been adapted as the series Get Even for BBC and Netflix. Gretchen’s novels have been published internationally in over a dozen languages. Her upcoming novels include DIG TWO GRAVES (April 26, 2022) and THREE DROPS OF BLOOD (2023), both for Disney-Hyperion. The companion novel #NOESCAPE was a YALSA 2021 Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. Gretchen’s first YA contemporary I’M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, also with Balzer + Bray, hit shelves in 2016, and then she returned to her horror-comedy roots with #MURDERTRENDING (Barnes & Noble Best Books of 2018, ILA 2019 Young Adults’ Choices Reading list, YALSA’s 2019 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers, and was voted the #1 choice on YALSA’s 2019 Teens’ Top Ten list) and the sequel #MURDERFUDNING (2020 YALSA Teens’ Top Ten) for Disney/Freeform. Gretchen McNeilis the author of the YA horror/suspense novels POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN (a YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and a Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth) all with Balzer + Bray for HarperCollins.
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