High School, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th ; Hard Cover, Fiction, Horror, Thriller ; Recommended

How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

Reviewed by OHS Library Secretary, Mikel D.L.

For readers who equate “corn maze” with dread, this is your book.  This perfect Halloween season story is narrated by Claire, a teenager who is about to testify in her sister’s murder trial. She’s a horror movie fanatic, but a total scaredy-cat of anything that moves in real life. The plot twists in cryptic ways and I certainly couldn’t have predicted the conclusion. It’s a real nail-biter and readers will have a hard time putting it down …to go to sleep (!?).