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Dead Girls Walking

A Novel
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

Temple Baker knows evil runs in her blood — her father is the North Point Killer, convicted of murdering twenty people at the family's old campground and infamous for branding each of his victims. She never believed he killed her mother too, despite the disappearance, until he confesses to that murder from death row.

To find proof and finally lay her mother to rest, Temple returns to the old family property, now reborn as a sleepaway camp for Black LGBTQ+ teens interested in horror. Swallowing her discomfort with forced camaraderie, she takes a job as a counselor. She's barely settled into camp life before a body turns up in the woods — and the first death is only the beginning of a terrifying weekend that forces Temple to confront exactly how much of her father is in her.

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About the author

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Sami Ellis

Sami Ellis is a queer horror writer drawing on Black fears and their cultural relationship to the supernatural. She co-founded the Write Team Mentorship Program. Her 2024 debut YA horror novel, Dead Girls Walking, follows the daughter of an infamous serial killer as she searches for her dead mother's body at the summer camp built on her father's former home.

Characters

Temple BakerProtagonist

Daughter of the North Point Killer, returning to her father's old campground to find her mother's body.

The North Point KillerAntagonist

Temple's incarcerated father, a serial killer who murdered twenty people and confesses to killing Temple's mother as well.

All characters in Dead Girls Walking