Author: Natalie C. Anderson
Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Realistic Fiction
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date: January 24, 2017
Length: 432 pages
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling YA murder mystery set in Kenya. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. Her mother quickly found work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city’s most respected business leaders. But Tina soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was made from a life of corruption and crime. So when her mother is found shot to death in Mr. Greyhill's personal study, she knows exactly who’s behind it.
With revenge always on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving on the streets alone, working as a master thief for the Goondas, Sangui City’s local gang. It’s a job for the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving her the chance for vengeance she’s been waiting for. But as soon as she steps inside the lavish home, she’s overtaken by the pain of old wounds and the pull of past friendships, setting into motion a dangerous cascade of events that could, at any moment, cost Tina her life. But finally uncovering the incredible truth about who killed her mother—and why—keeps her holding on in this fast-paced nail-biting thriller.
Description from Goodreads
Who's the good guy, who's the bad guy, and who's the bad guy you can live with?
Tina is a 16 year old so full of love for her family that she has devoted her life to revenge. She hid her sister in a gated school, joined a gang, and became the best thief in Sangui City. She hones herself into an instrument of destruction in order to utterly ruin her mother's murderer, with little care for the other innocents that will get caught up in his downfall.
Tina is a 16 year old so full of love for her family that she has devoted her life to revenge. She hid her sister in a gated school, joined a gang, and became the best thief in Sangui City. She hones herself into an instrument of destruction in order to utterly ruin her mother's murderer, with little care for the other innocents that will get caught up in his downfall.
