This Is Where We Die book

A Junior Library Guild Fall 2025 Selection

Eight friends went on a trip. Only six came back. Now a killer has one night to make sure the survivors pay for what they did . . . so that zero make it out alive.

More about the book

“This psychological thriller will leave the reader gasping for air”

— Booklist starred review

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects. And each one has a reason for wanting her dead.

“Propulsive, Hitchcockian… sure to leave teen mystery fans amazed.”

— Booklist starred review

ABOUT CINDY

Cindy R. X. He is the author of the YA thrillers This Is Where We Die, and Perfect Little Monsters. Perfect Little Monsters is a Children's Book Council 2025 Young Adult, Teacher, and Librarian Favorites Awards Winner, an Arkansas Teen Book Award Nominee, as well as a finalist for the 2022 Daphne du Maurier Award, and the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award.

Born and raised in multicultural Singapore, she currently resides in the French Alps with her husband, children, and rescue cat. She skis in the winter, gets dragged on hikes in the summer (and sometimes, even worse still, camping), and hoards books all year round.

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