This is my absolute favorite suspense book for readers 9-12. Two boys are standing in the kitchen when the phone rings. One answers, and the voice on the other end confesses to having killed a woman and then shares that she is lying at his feet in a pool of blood. Alrighty then! Where do we go from here? Well, one of the boys will actually figure out who that voice belongs to...oh dear. The tension mounts. Fantastic thriller.
208 pages 978-1416954446 Ages 9-13
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The phone rang three times before Andy picked it up. "Hello?" he said. A voice replied, "I just killed someone. I killed...Nina."
Andy Zadinski is convinced that the man who calls himself "Zeke" is serious. But no one will listen to Andy - not the police, not his friends, not even his father. They all say he's crying wolf, even when Andy discovers that there really is a Nina Klemmer. Even when he spots her at the local college and sees that she fits Zeke's description of her. Exactly.
Despite warnings from his father that he should just forget about the call, Andy feels obligated to track Nina down and warn her. What if Zeke really is plotting to kill her? When Andy investigates further, he finds out that Nina may not be Zeke's only target...---from the publisher
Keywords: suspense thriller, murder, helping others, danger, detective, mystery,
