Dangerous Girls

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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  First Simon Pulse hardcover edition July 2013

  Copyright © 2013 by Abigail McDonald

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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