Genre: YA Detective
Description (taken from Kelley Armstrong's website):
Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for.
Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn’t dare reveal.
The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with “issues.” But that’s exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage.
The building has no windows. The exits are sealed shut. Their phones are gone. And their captors are on a killing spree.
Riley and Max know that if they can’t get out, they’ll be next—but they’re about to find out that even escape doesn’t equal freedom.
Riley suffers from PTSD after having witnessed a murder while babysitting a little girl. She hasn't been able to move on and be normal. So one weekend, she finds herself at therapy camp along with other troubled teens. But when masked gunmen interrupt this weekend therapy, it seems Riley will have to relive her nightmares.
Max is an average 18-year-old who moved from the UK to the USA in order to get away from his past. He's trying to move on with the life he has, but things can be difficult. And while he spends his time in the back of therapy making snide remarks over everyone else's problems, it seems like he's never going to open up about why he's there in the first place. And then the gunmen arrive.
This is a classic adrenaline-rush, escape-the-killers, who-dunnit story. You've got an industrial building with no windows and crazy teenagers stuck together for the weekend. And stuff just happens to go wrong when kidnappers come in and take them hostage. I followed the story pretty well and had most things figured out. And I enjoyed the rhetoric between the characters. Even though they considered themselves psychologically damaged, they still worked to survive.
An easy story that I think mystery readers will like. You'll want to keep reading to make sure time hasn't ran out for the characters.
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