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    The Bad Ones: A Novel
    The Bad Ones: A Novel
    The Bad Ones: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Bad Ones: A Novel

    Written by Melissa Albert

    Narrated by Emma Galvin

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    About this audiobook

    "Emma Galvin's chilling narration will draw listeners into a small town where four people have mysteriously vanished."—AudioFile

    NEW YORK TIMES     bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with THE BAD ONES, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history

    Goddess, goddess, count to five
    In the morning, who’s alive?

    In the course of a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town.

    Nora’s estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca’s disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town’s past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games. . . .

    An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, THE BAD ONES is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 20, 2024
    ISBN9781250910509
    The Bad Ones: A Novel
    Author

    Melissa Albert

    Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and Our Crooked Hearts, and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children’s Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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      This book drew me into a mystery and then gave me an answer that was so absurd that I have more questions. The last 2 hours, I kept sighing and wondering what the author could have done.