In Amontillado, Ohio, at the condemned Usher House, Tress Montor devises a sinister plan to get information out of her former best friend, Felicity Turnado. Tress will have her answers-or settle for revenge. THE INITIAL INSULT gives a modern YA spin to the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, taking inspiration from several of his classic tales of suspense. A Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicity-brick by brick-as she slowly seals her former best friend into a coal chute. only that she can’t look at Tress without feeling shame and guilt.īut she’ll have to. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she can’t even remember what it is. She knows that one misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder, and she’s worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared.
The entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken, one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to as the “White Trash Zoo.”įelicity Turnado has it all: looks, money, and a secret.
Two girls recall the major events that forced them apart in an intricate, duology-opening story of. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, Tress lost everything. HarperCollins/Tegen, 17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-298242-1.
Tress Montor knows that her family used to mean something-until she didn’t have a family anymore. Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kept. In the first book of this suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship.
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