Young Adult Fiction Thrillers & Suspense
Keep This to Yourself
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2020
- Category
- Thrillers & Suspense, Mental Illness, LGBT
- Recommended Age
- 13 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 8 to 12
- Recommended Reading age
- 13 to 18
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780807541494
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $13.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780807541517
- Publish Date
- May 2019
- List Price
- $24.99
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2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best YA Crime Book
2020 ITW Thriller Award, Best Young Adult Novel
2020 ALA Rainbow Book List
The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail
2019 Books of the Year, Quill & Quire
Our Favourite Books of the Decade, The Canadian Children's Book Centre
2020 John Spray Mystery Award Finalist
2020 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Finalist
2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Literature
2021 TAYSHAS Reading List, Texas Library Association
"Breathtakingly chilling...eerie and wholly immersive...A tightly plotted mystery." Kirkus Reviews starred review
It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he's drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all. Now nobody—friends, neighbors, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is following his every move, Mac struggles to come to terms with his true feelings towards Connor while scrambling to uncover the truth.
About the author
Tom Ryan is the award-winning author of several acclaimed books for young readers. He has been nominated for multiple awards, including the White Pine Award, the Ann Connor Brimer Award and the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. His YA mystery Keep This to Yourself was the winner of the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Thriller and the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Book. Two of his books were Junior Library Guild selections, and three of his young adult novels, Way to Go, Tag Along and Keep This to Yourself, were chosen for the ALA Rainbow List, in 2013, 2014 and 2020. He was a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction. Tom, his husband and their dog live in Nova Scotia.
Editorial Reviews
"A classic whodunit complete with an atmospheric coastal setting, red herrings galore, and a gay teen detective you'll root for from page one." —Malinda Lo, author of A Line in the Dark
STARRED REVIEW! "Breathtakingly chilling. Set across the lush backdrop of an oceanside vacation town, the mystery unfurls like a thick fog, eerie and wholly immersive.... A tightly plotted mystery." —Kirkus Reviews
"With sharp twists, mounting tension, and a doozy of an ending–not to mention a little sweet romance–this is a page-turner you will not want to keep to yourself." —Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving
"A gripping murder mystery on the surface, but underneath, it is an exploration of identity and grief.... readers will plow through Keep This to Yourself in one sitting." —Kimberly Giarratano, BookPage
2020 ITW Thriller Award, Best Young Adult Fiction
2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best YA Crime Book
The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail
2020 ALA Rainbow Book List
2019 Books of the Year, Quill & Quire
Our Favourite Books of the Decade, The Canadian Children's Book Centre
2020 John Spray Mystery Award Finalist
2020 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Finalist
2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Literature
2021 TAYSHAS Reading List, Texas Library Association
"Keep This to Yourselfis full of twists and turns that keep readers second guessing and flipping pages right until the end. I fell in love with the characters—even when I wasn't sure who I could trust." —Eileen Cook, author of With Malice and You Owe Me a Murder
" ...tense, compelling mystery." —Booklist
"As a thriller, Keep This to Yourself delivers twists and turns aplenty, but its personal elements are just as thrilling and suspenseful." —Quill & Quire
"Suspenseful, genuinely creepy and so cleanly plotted, readers may want to start the book all over again once they've solved the mystery." —Shelf Awareness
