Young Adult Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories
The Dark Won’t Wait
- 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
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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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The Story of Two Fearless Wolves—and One Rebel
The Dark Won't Wait
The Unlikely Hero
The Story of Wolf 8 (A Young Readers' Edition)
David A. Poulsen's Young Adult Fiction 3-Book Bundle
And Then the Sky Exploded / Numbers / Old Man
And Then the Sky Exploded
Numbers
Old Man
Shivers and Shakes
Jeremy's Song
