Two Can Keep a Secret

Five years ago, homecoming queen Lacey Kilduff was found strangled in the Fright Farm haunted attraction, and the town of Echo Ridge has never quite recovered. Years before that, another girl — Ellery's own aunt Sarah — simply vanished. So when Ellery and her twin brother Ezra are sent to live with the grandmother they barely know in that very town, Ellery, a true-crime obsessive, can't help feeling she's walking into a story that isn't finished.

Then threatening messages appear promising that this year's homecoming court will pay, and a girl goes missing. As Ellery is drawn toward Malcolm, the younger brother of a prime suspect in Lacey's murder, both of them find that Echo Ridge's picture-perfect surface hides layers of old secrets, buried guilt and lies that reach into their own families.

Told from shifting perspectives with the twists that made One of Us Is Lying a phenomenon, Karen M. McManus's Two Can Keep a Secret is a tautly plotted YA thriller about small towns, big secrets, and how well any of us really knows our neighbors.