Books by Amy Engel and Complete Book Reviews

The Roanoke Girls
The Roanoke Girls
Amy Engel. Crown, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-101-90666-8
YA author Engel (The Book of Ivy) makes her adult debut with a gripping if creepy thriller set on the Kansas prairie. Lane Roanoke fervently hoped she had seen the last of Roanoke, the family homestead, when she fled Kansas for Los Angeles as a...
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The Familiar Dark
The Familiar Dark
Amy Engel. Dutton, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-524-74595-0
The stark prologue of this harrowing thriller from Engel (The Roanoke Girls) recounts the final moments of 12-year-old best friends Izzy Logan and Junie Taggert, slaughtered on an abandoned playground in their impoverished hometown in the Missouri...
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I Did It for You
I Did It for You
Amy Engel. Dutton, $28 (280p) ISBN 978-0-593187-39-5
In this stellar standalone from Engel (The Familiar Dark), the murder of teenagers Eliza Dunning and Travis Pratt is a settled matter for most people in Ludlow, Kans. Fourteen years ago, the pair was gunned down while they were making out in a car,...
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