Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine where we post upcoming releases we're highly anticipating. My pre-publication selection for this week's Waiting on Wednesday is Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano.
Nearly Gone
Elle Cosimano
Series: None
Release Date: March 25th, 2014
Publisher: Kathy Dawson Books
Waited on by: Blythe
Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary, brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end.
Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like her mother's job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with the personal ads, and especially the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's skin. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher, she confides in the one person she shouldn't trust: the new guy at school—a reformed bad boy working undercover for the police, doing surveillance. . . on her.
Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it all out soon—she'll be next.
A good old fashioned urban thriller and murder mystery? With cryptic codes and mysterious codes? And it's pitched as Bones meets Fringe. Um, yeah. I have a mighty need. Her forming an alliance with a bad boy intimidates me quite a bit, so I desperately hope the annoying bad boy trope is done well, because damn this just sounds awesome.
This sounds really good :) I've not heard of this, but I think I might add it to my tbr!
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I agree, sounds really good. And what is that "All the numbers add up to one killer...herself"? Very intriguing! ~Pam
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I've not heard of this one before. Great pick.
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This sounds like a great read Blythe, I love how it mixes up a thriller and a mystery. I will definitely be adding this to my tbr! :)
ReplyDeleteThis was my pick for today, too! I can't wait until the release. Absolutely love the cover and the summary just sounds amazing.
ReplyDeleteI want the girl on the cover to wipe her lip, though.
ReplyDeleteI just found out about this one this week-I think it's supposed to have some math/science angle that is really intriguing to me. I hadn't seen the Fringe reference but that also gets me excited as I miss that show!
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