![]() ![]() Soon, Addy is spending more time at Coach’s house than anyone else. Addy tries to balance her increasingly divided loyalties but is gradually pulled into Coach’s orbit. In particular, Coach befriends Addy, whose relationship with Beth has been strained since a dark episode at cheerleading camp the summer before. The girls respond to her tight discipline as well as to her perfect hair and her invitations to hang out at her carefully decorated house, where she lives with her workaholic husband and little girl. Skilled at manipulation, Coach has the early upper hand. A battle of wills ensues between Coach and Beth. She immediately asserts her authority, not only taking away the girls’ cell phones, but also announcing there will be no squad captain. Then a new coach, young and pretty Colette French, arrives. The cheerleaders are popular mean girls, and Beth is the meanest and most popular. Narrator Addy has been lifelong best friend to Beth, now the powerful captain of Sutton Grove High School’s cheerleading squad. ![]() The setting is an unnamed, frighteningly familiar town that could be found anywhere in contemporary America. Following the direction taken by her last novel ( The End of Everything, 2011, etc.), Edgar winner Abbott again delivers an unsettling look at the inner life of adolescent girls in the guise of a crime story. ![]()
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