Young Adult

Abstract

The police write off George's death as an accident, but Eva believes it is murder, and she is determined to solve it. The book explores issues of race, power, class, equity, and colonialism in a way that deftly connects a focus on social justice to a suspenseful plot twist in this well-paced mystery. While Owen is a human young man who grew up seeing his artistic parents struggle to make ends meet, the handsome Zarmenus is a demon and a literal prince of Hell, here on the world's first interdimensional exchange program. Gr 9 Up—Horne's sophomore YA novel has echoes of a queer Heathers, but with social annihilation rather than actual murder.