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THAT WEEKEND by Kara Thomas

THAT WEEKEND

by Kara Thomas

Pub Date: June 29th, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5247-1836-7
Publisher: Delacorte

Her friends are missing from a camping trip gone bad and Claire can’t remember anything, but she’s determined to find them.

After catching her boyfriend sneaking off with another girl, there’s no way Claire is going to prom with him. Instead, the teen becomes a third wheel on a secret weekend trip to the mountains with her best friend, Kat, and Jesse, Kat’s boyfriend. The worst Claire is expecting is having to witness too many PDA’s between Jesse and Kat—especially since she has a secret crush on Jesse. When she wakes up alone on the mountain, hurt and with amnesia, that’s when the real trouble begins. Kat and Jesse are missing, possibly dead, and Claire can’t remember anything past their first night on the mountain. In this well-paced mystery, Thomas raises doubts about everyone, from Kat’s wealthy and influential ex-congresswoman grandmother to the mountain’s small-town residents to even Claire herself. When her friends’ ongoing disappearance causes her mental health issues and the FBI still hasn’t cracked the case, Claire begins her own investigation. The story is primarily told through Claire’s first-person narration, with later flashback chapters from Kat’s perspective offering more clues. The twists and turns accelerate until the final page as readers learn not just how the teens disappeared, but why. Most main characters are cued as White; Jesse is White and Mexican American.

Mystery fans will welcome another shocking missing teen case.

(resources) (Mystery. 14-18)