Girl in Pieces meets One of Us is Lying, told in Sarah Crossan’s inimitable and award-winning verse. When Connie Ryder is taken from her home in the middle of the night, she finds herself held at Silver Lake Academy, a remote facility for ‘troubled’ teens. At Silver Lake, the vulnerable and the dangerous are thrown together, controlled by a strict and brutal regime. Connie decides to keep her head the surrounding wilderness makes escape impossible, and who can she trust in a place like Silver Lake? But when a girl is found dead, and a second girl goes missing, Connie is drawn deep into a web of secrets and lies as she attempts to uncover the truth before it’s too late... A sensational, immersive and hugely propulsive ‘missing girl’ thriller, set against the backdrop of America’s controversial Troubled Teen industry.
Author
Sarah Crossan is Irish. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Literature before training as an English and Drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools before leaving teaching to write full time. She completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in 2003 and in 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing. She currently lives in NYC.
