MEME


A tense, psychological thriller for the internet age about the destructive combination of self-important goals and self-serving plans.

Cole Weston—former friend, former boyfriend—has become dangerous, erratic. Something needs to be done. Getting rid of Cole is practically a public service. So high school seniors Holly Morse, Grayson Hobbs, Logan Bailey, and Meeka Miller devise a plan. Kill Cole. Bury him in the woods behind Meeka’s house. Bury him deep, deep in the ground along with four old cell phones, wiped except for their video confession as insurance that no one will ever betray the group. Everything is perfect, until the meme appears. It’s a screenshot from their confession… a confession that’s supposed to be entombed with Cole forever in the cold Vermont dirt.

Dutton, September 2020

HC ISBN: 9780735231924
Readers: Young Adult (14 and up)


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REVIEWS

“Starmer crafts a neo-noir-flavored revenge thriller that stabs at the heart of 21st-century isolation…a tense, revolving first-person narrative propels the reader through an absorbing scheme-gone-wrong mystery.” — Publisher’s Weekly


ACCOLADES

  • Junior Library Guild Selection (2020)


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