by Abigail Haas
How much do you love me?
ABIGAIL HAAS has written two adult novels and four young adult contemporary novels under the name Abby McDonald. She grew up in Sussex, England, and studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University. This is her first young adult thriller. She lives in Los Angeles.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Haas, Abigail.
Dangerous girls / by Abigail Haas. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
p. cm.
Summary: While on spring break in Aruba, a young girl is accused of her best friend’s death and must stand trial for murder in a foreign country.
ISBN 978-1-4424-8659-1 (hc)
[1. Murder—Fiction. 2. Best friends—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Trials (Murder)—Fiction. 5. Aruba—Fiction. 6. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.H111327Dan 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2013008216
ISBN 978-1-4424-8661-4 (eBook)
Contents
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Aruba Emergency Services 911 Transcript—8:45 P.M.
The Boston Globe
Before
The Hearing
The Beginning
Now
Custody
Trial
Before
Now
The Night
The Trial
Now
First Interrogation
The Next Day
Junior Year
Before
The Party
After
Now
Fall
Second Interrogation
Vacation
The Trial
After
Halloween
Waiting
The First Night
Now
Evidencetext Message Records
Day 52
Now
Then
The Trial
Waiting
Vacation
Trial
Pretrial
Clara Rose Show Transcript
Back
Winter
Evidence Material 102—Anna Chevalier English Assignment—Junior Class
Trial
After The Fight
The Interview
Before
Day 196
Now
Clara Rose Show Transcript
Waiting
Vacation
The Trial
The Trial
The Trial
The Funeral
Recess
Eight Years
Now
Closing Arguments
Waiting
The Night
Three Months Later
Before
About Abigail Haas