THE PRIZED GIRL BY AMY K GREEN
Paperback published by HQ 19th March 2020.
A teenage beauty queen is found murdered in this gripping debut from Amy K. Green.
Days after a young teenager named Jenny is found murdered, her small town grieves the loss alongside her picture-perfect parents. At first glance, Jenny’s tragic death appears clear-cut for investigators. In the murder of a former pageant queen from a safe and loving family, the most obvious suspect is a fan who got too close for comfort. But Jenny’s sarcastic, older half-sister Virginia isn’t so sure of his guilt and takes matters into her own hands to find the killer.
But for Jenny’s case and and Virginia’s investigation, there’s more to the story. Virginia, still living in town and haunted by her own troubled teenage years, suspects that a similar darkness lay beneath the sparkling veneer of Jenny’s life.
MY REVIEW
I really enjoyed reading a different theme to a murder, being that of a pageant, that hasn’t been been written in fiction before. It was a real pleasure to read The Prized Girl.
Throughout the novel The Prized Girl the chapters are alternatively between Jenny’s final days and Jenny’s half sister Virginia.
Jenny a beauty pageant is found murdered. Jenny was a bright beautiful young girl who had a bright future. She could have been Miss America, but she was taken away from her family by a monster.
From the age from five to twelve, Jenny won more Grand Supreme titles than anyone in New England.
It was Linda, Virginia’s step mother who had an obsession with pageants.
This a town full secrets. The big question is who killed beautiful Jenny and why?
I loved the last chapter, with the twist in the story, and just when I didn’t think there would be a better ending, there it was on the very last page. I now know I have booked myself another author to follow, and to keep an eye out for Amy K. Green’s next book.
A little extract
Five Days After
WHEN MY HALF SISTER, Jenny, was killed, it was all over the news national news, not just our local paper that had to use an offensively large front to fill its pages. Strangers drove great distances to be part of the funfare. Reporters and their vans lined the street in front of the church hosting her funeral. I parked my dented Jetta along the side of the road about a quarter mile away. There was no reserved parking space for me.
MY SPECIAL THANKS TO
I would like to say a special thanks to Lily at Harper Collins for giving me the pleasure to read and review The Prized Girl and for inviting me to be part of the blog tour today.
About author Amy K. Green
https://www.instagram.com/amykgreen1/
Twitteramykgreen
I’m a Boston and LA based author and my debut suspense thriller The Prized Girl is available for pre-order now (Dutton, 1/14/2020).
I also work as a Production Accountant, most recently on the 2019 film Little Women. Working in accounting on movies is a little like cleaning the costumes at Disney World; it’s not glamorous, but you get access to more behind the scenes details than you’d ever want.
My favorite place to write is the Einstein’s bagels on Wilshire in Miracle Mile (LA), but I recently moved out of my apartment there and the adjustment has been unsettling. Just wandering the planet looking for a coffee shop to fill the void.
You can also find me on Twitter and Instagram where I post things after spending thirty minutes overanalyzing.
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