Keep This to Yourself
It’s been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace.
Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac’s best friend Connor was the murderer’s final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he’s drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all.
Now nobody—friends, neighbors, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is following his every move, Mac struggles to come to terms with his true feelings towards Connor while scrambling to uncover the truth.
AW Teen, 2019
2020 CCBC Amy Mathers Teen Book Award NOMINEE
2020 CCBC John Spray Mystery Award NOMINEE
2020 ITW Thriller Award WINNER: Best YA Novel
2020 Arthur Ellis Award WINNER: Best YA Crime Book
Selected for The Globe 100: Books that shaped 2019
One of CCBC’s best YA novels of the decade.
One of Quill & Quire’s best books of 2019
Selected for the ALA Rainbow List 2020
2020 Toronto Public Library “The List” 100 Great Reads for Youth
As seen on SNL (I mean c’mon I had to include this)
“Breathtakingly chilling. Set across the lush backdrop of an oceanside vacation town, the mystery unfurls like a thick fog, eerie and wholly immersive.... A tightly plotted mystery.”
“As a thriller, Keep This to Yourself delivers twists and turns aplenty, but its personal elements are just as thrilling and suspenseful.”
“A gripping murder mystery on the surface, but underneath, it is an exploration of identity and grief.... readers will plow through Keep This to Yourself in one sitting.”
““The plotting is deft, but, as important, the reader watches Mac fall for another boy who lost someone in the killing spree and gets a real sense of the town’s characters and ethos.””
“Suspenseful, genuinely creepy and so cleanly plotted, readers may want to start the book all over again once they’ve solved the mystery.”
“A classic whodunit complete with an atmospheric coastal setting, red herrings galore, and a gay teen detective you’ll root for from page one.”
“With sharp twists, mounting tension, and a doozy of an ending–not to mention a little sweet romance–this is a page-turner you will not want to keep to yourself.”