A Guardian Best Book of the Year
A Dazed Best Novel of 2023
-An unmissable banger.- ALICE SLATER
-A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.- TOM BENN
-You-ve never read anything like this.- JULIA ARMFIELD
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes?
Did you see the pictures of the body?
Did you look for them?
It-s been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked the small seaside town of Crow-on-Sea. Based on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, and even correspondence with the killers themselves, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has constructed what he claims is the -definitive account- of the crime. It-s a riveting snapshot of lives scarred by tragedy, and a town lef
