Título: Dead Girls Walking
Autor: Sami Ellis
Sinopse: Sami Ellis’s Dead Girls Walking is a shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at the summer camp that was once her serial killer father’s home—perfect for fans of Friday the 13th and White Smoke.
Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point Killer, an infamous serial killer known for how he marked each of his victims with a brand. He was convicted for murdering 20 people and was the talk of countless true crime blogs for years. Some say he was possessed by a demon. Some say that they never found all his victims. Some say that even though he’s now behind bars, people are still dying in the woods. Despite everything though, Temple never believed that her dad killed her mom. But when he confesses to that crime while on death row, she has no choice but to return to his old hunting grounds to try see if she can find a body and prove it.
Turns out, the farm that was once her father’s hunting grounds and her home has been turned into an overnight camp for queer, horror-obsessed girls. So Temple poses as a camp counselor to go digging in the woods. While she’s not used to hanging out with girls her own age and feels ambivalent at best about these true crime enthusiasts, she tries her best to fit in and keep her true identity hidden.
But when a girl turns up dead in the woods, she fears that one of her father’s “fans” might be mimicking his crimes. As Temple tries to uncover the truth and keep the campers safe, she comes to realize that there may be something stranger and more sinister at work—and that her father may not have been the only monster in these woods.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Dead Girls Walking”, de Sami Ellis, publicado pela editora Amulet Books, em 2024 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Amulet Books
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2024-03-26
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Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1419766767
ISBN13: 9781419766763
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Amulet Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura que combina fantasia envolvente, narrativas contemporâneas e histórias de amadurecimento com forte apelo emocional. O catálogo traz desde aventuras fantásticas ambientadas em mundos imaginários e mágicos, até dramas realistas que exploram relações familiares, desafios pessoais e questões sociais. A linguagem varia entre o descritivo e o dinâmico, com ritmo que pode ser tanto tenso e misterioso quanto leve e bem-humorado, dependendo da obra. Muitas histórias focam em jovens protagonistas enfrentando dilemas de identidade, amizade e transformação, frequentemente em contextos que mesclam o cotidiano com elementos sobrenaturais ou históricos.
