Crime fiction for teens
Crime fiction for teens including titles by Tia Fisher, Robert Muchamore, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Maureen Johnson, Ben Oliver, Karen M. McManus, Cynthia Murphy and Holly Jackson.
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Sue Wallman is a British author of young adult psychological thrillers. After gaining a degree in English Literature and Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, she worked for a newspaper in Paris and magazines in London, then became a secondary school librarian for six years.
Her debut novel, Lying About Last Summer, was published by Scholastic on 5 May 2016. It was chosen for the WHSmith Zoella Book Club in 2016 and won the Worcestershire Teen Book Award in 2017.
Scholastic published her subsequent YA thrillers See How They Lie (2017), Your Turn to Die (2018), Dead Popular (2019), and I Know You Did It (2021).
In 2025, Scholastic published Watch Your Back.
Crime fiction for teens including titles by Tia Fisher, Robert Muchamore, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Maureen Johnson, Ben Oliver, Karen M. McManus, Cynthia Murphy and Holly Jackson.
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