Wish You Were Dead (Thrillogy, #1)

by Todd Strasser

This is a Second of three glossy high-school crime thrillers from a bestselling American author. A blogger is listing the kids who should die; a killer is picking them off one at a time. In the small American town of Soundview, someone is blogging about the local high school kids, and the comments aren't kind. But are the posts cruel taunts or vicious threats? Then seventeen-year-old Lucy Cunningham goes missing after a night out, and the hunt is on to catch a killer. This series has all the glamour of Gossip Girls and all the action of James Patterson.

• ISBN10: 1406329878
• ISBN13: 9781406329872
• Publish Date: 6 October 2011 (first published 1 August 2009)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 4 August 2015
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Walker Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[readingwithwrin]

"While other kids were learning to look both ways crossing the street, I was being taught what to do if I was ever kidnapped. What the general public didn't know and the police only suspect, was that the kidnapping of the children of wealthy parents happened more frequently than was reported in the news."
Madison works with a local program to drive young adults home on the weekend when needed. This seems like a fairly easy job until one night a passenger goes missing after having been dropped off. This sets the whole town on edge, but the kidnappings don't stop there over the next weeks another two teenagers go missing as well. The local authorities are questioning all of the usual suspects but keep coming up empty-handed. So it's up to Madison and a person who comes to her for help to find out who's taken them and why all without getting caught by the real kidnapper.

This was so much better than I thought it would be. I really liked this thriller mystery and I loved how it was all able to fit into such a short book. Not only did you feel actual fear for the characters, but all of the other mini-mysteries surrounding the main big one were fun to figure out. As for the big mystery, I was completely wrong on who that one was and I had never even had that person as a suspect making it truly shocking.

I can't wait to read the next companion novel in this series and see what Strasser is able to come up with next.