The Dead Season (“Deliciously twisty”—Bookreporter), Dead Wind (Publishers Weekly starred review), The Kind to Kill (a Strand Magazine Top Mystery Novel), and the hot-off-the-presses Devils at the Door.
[My Book, The Movie: The Dead Season; The Page 69 Test: The Dead Season; Q&A with Tessa Wegert; The Page 69 Test: Dead Wind; Writers Read: Tessa Wegert (April 2022); Writers Read: Tessa Wegert (December 2022)]
At CrimeReads Wegert tagged five "crime novels that tackle teens, their struggles, and their relationships with the adults around them." One title on the list:
Jar of Hearts by Jennifer HillierRead about the other entries on the list.
A decade and a half after the disappearance of high school student Angela Wong, her remains are discovered near the home of her childhood best friend Georgina Shaw, who used to date Calvin, the man convicted of killing Angela. While the dual timelines in this spellbinding thriller treat us to both an unflinching look at Geo’s time in prison for helping her ex cover up the crime and the twisted love story of Geo and Calvin, others are dying, possibly at her ex’s hand. In the end, Geo must reconcile mistakes made in her youth in order to save her future as an adult…that is, if she survives long enough to see it.
Jar of Hearts is among Emily Smith's five top thrillers featuring the dead/surviving girl trope, B. R. Myers's top ten quietly effective suspense novels, and Alice Blanchard's ten chilling thrillers to get you through the winter storms.
--Marshal Zeringue
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