The quarry girls

An international best-selling true crime.

The Girls of the Quarry is considered by critics to be one of the most anticipated suspense novels of the year and the author’s best to date, which is inspired by a real crime and narrates with a hypnotic pen a very dark and sordid story. that will leave readers with their hair on end. Some key elements of this story are secrets, the silence of a town, a claustrophobic setting, lost innocence, what children do when they become adults, and the courage of a woman who will not allow herself to be destroyed. .

We are set in Minnesota, in 1977. Teenagers Heather and her friend Brenda have a secret: they saw something in the dark, something they can’t forget, but that they swore not to tell anyone. Everything changes when her friend Maureen disappears and, despite being the second girl to do so in a week, the authorities do not want to investigate. Heather believes that the disappearance of these young women has to do with what they witnessed that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she discovers that no one in her community is who she seems to be, not even the police, her friends, or her parents. She also knows that she is next.

Jess Lourey is a best-selling American author with millions of readers around the world, an Edgar Award nominee, and winner of the International Thriller Award, Anthony Award, and Minnesota Book Award. She writes crime fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, young adult adventures, and magical realism. She is a recipient of The Loft’s Excellence in Teaching scholarship, is a Psychology Today blogger, and a TEDx presenter.

«The Girls of the Quarry is one of the most anticipated suspense novels of the year. This book talks about lost innocence, the unwritten rules of silence in small towns, what “broken men” do to others and what boys who become men do when they are in a group, but would never dare. to do alone. And then there is the courage of a woman who does not intend to allow them to finish her. St. Paul Pioneer Press

“Lourey conveys the nervousness, hunger and restlessness of teenage girls with a touch of Megan Abbot, while constantly intensifying the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small Minnesota town in 1977 where darkness snakes beneath the surface.” Loreth Anne White, author of The Patient’s Secret

«Few authors can mix the genuine fear generated by a sordid true crime story with evocative, three-dimensional characters and hypnotic prose like Jess Lourey. It says it all: The Girls of the Quarry will be one of the best books of the year.” Alex Segura, author of Secret Identity, Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and Miami Midnight

“Jess Lourey is a master of the thriller, and The Quarry Girls is her best novel to date, as dark, twisted, and full of secrets as the tunnels hidden beneath the seemingly idyllic streets of Pantown.” Chris Holm, author of The Killing Kind