Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery

Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story.

Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum--but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace's brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends--and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 10/06/2015
ISBN: 9780062320865
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner

Review Citations: School Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 106
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2015 pg. 161
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2015
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2015 - Recommended - Better Than Most

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 190469 / Madness So Discreet
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14