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Young Adult Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories

The Dark Won’t Wait

by (author) David A. Poulsen

Publisher
Red Deer Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2024
Category
Mysteries & Detective Stories, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime
Recommended Age
12 to 18
Recommended Grade
7 to 12
Recommended Reading age
12 to 18
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889957510
    Publish Date
    Nov 2024
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Dom’s life revolves around cars and baseball until a chance connection to a high school audition hands him a major role in a psychological thriller. This would be exciting enough, except that real life begins to shadow the script in a very creepy way as an elusive girl and a local murder draw Dom out of his otherwise quiet shell. With a nod to Frederick Knott’s famous play “Wait Until Dark” and its subsequent film, this book has it all—drama, mystery, thrills aplenty, and contemporary teen humour.

About the author

David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, professional cowboy, football coach, stage and film actor and—most of all—writer. His writing career began in earnest when his story The Welcomin’ won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. Now the author of 27 books, many for middle readers and young adults, David spends 60 to 80 days a year in classrooms and libraries across Canada (and beyond) as a visiting author/presenter. The UBC Creative Writing alumnus and former Writer in Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library recently made his inaugural foray into the world of adult crime fiction with Serpents Rising, the best-selling first book in the Cullen and Cobb Mystery series. There are now four titles in the series and the fourth—None So Deadly—hit bookstores in the spring of 2019. The Man Called Teacher, coming in 2019, is his first adult western. David lives on a small ranch in Alberta’s foothills where he and his wife Barb raise and train running-bred quarter horses for barrel racing competitions.

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