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1. Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 02:15:09 JST Wendy Palmer

   Looking for a #YA #BookRecommendation please.

   My son is moving into YA and absolutely loves thrillers/mysteries. Many of the #books we’ve found so far in this genre have all-teen-girl casts (do publishers assume boys trot off to the spec-fic aisle at the YA point?). He has zero issue with female leads, but it’d be nice to break it up with some mixed-gender books.

   His gold standard is Karen McManus but he also loved How to Survive Your Murder (so he doesn’t mind a little spec in his fic). I’ve already got him The Killing Code (Marney) to branch out into historical thrillers, and am eyeing off The King is Dead (Dean).

   Can anyone #recommend any others?

   @bookstodon #Reading #bookstodon #ToRead #thriller

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 02:29:33 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @wendypalmer @bookstodon@a.gup.pe I'll give it a go! Though I'm not sure I have any recommendations which quite fit what your looking for.

     Recently I enjoyed Murder at Avedon Hill and (audioshow, but easily best horror I've heard!) Magnus Archives.

     My favs growing up were The Lost Years of Merlin and Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, which might have an edge of what you're looking for (and easily qualify as YA) but you can probably do better.