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Death at Morning House

Hardcover – August 6, 2024
By Maureen Johnson

Award Nominee • Instant New York Times & Indie Bestseller

From Maureen Johnson—the beloved, bestselling author of the Truly Devious mysteries—comes a darkly funny, pulse-racing standalone YA thriller about buried secrets, queer longing, and the danger that comes from digging too far into the past.

Marlowe Wexler’s summer is already a disaster. So maybe she accidentally set a small fire on a date. It happens! But Akilah—the girl Marlowe has been hopelessly in love with for years—definitely isn’t calling her back. And now Marlowe’s entire house-sitting career has literally gone up in smoke.

Which is how she ends up taking an emergency job as a tour guide at Morning House, a sprawling, eerie 1920s mansion on a privately owned island. Easy gig. Big house. Weird décor. Zero open flames. Perfect.

Except for the deaths. The rumors. The fact that no one seems willing to talk about what really happened here.
And the person who hired Marlowe? Gone. Missing without a trace.

When Marlowe finds a single clue tucked into the mansion’s shadows, she triggers a chain reaction that threatens to repeat the house’s darkest history. Someone wants Morning House’s secrets to stay buried—and they may be willing to bury Marlowe with them.

Gleefully witty, deeply atmospheric, and threaded with queer romance and razor-sharp suspense, Death at Morning House is a love letter to classic mysteries—with enough twists to keep even the closest readers guessing until the final page.

Format: Hardcover