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"Girard is at the top of her game," Publishers Weekly "Up Close is a complex and riveting page-turner that will keep you guessing right to the very last page! Girard drops twist after twist in this absorbing, thrilling read. With a fresh and original premise, this book is a roller coaster ride that gives the reader many gasp-worthy moments but also provides heart and depth. Deeply satisfying, you won't want to put this one down!"xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0 xa0— Lisa Regan , USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn seriesxa0"Danielle Girard is a phenomenal writer. In Up Close , her insightful and compulsively readable new novel, she creates a vivid portrait of a tight-knit small town grappling with a series of teenage deaths. Accidents or murder? Girard keeps you guessing until the final, breathtaking twist." xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0— Jillian Medoff , author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful"The Badlands Thriller series keeps getting better and better. In this complicated kaleidoscope of a story, Girard effortlessly ratchets up the tension page by page until the shocking ending. Up Close 's nightmarish premise is executed flawlessly. This thrilling tale from one of our best suspense writers will keep you up late into the night. Highly recommended."— J.T. Ellison , NY Times bestselling author of It's One of Usxa0"In the tiny town of Hagen, North Dakota, teens are dying under circumstances that are both deeply disturbing and utterly bizarre. Danielle Girard's finely honed talents are on full display in her latest thriller, which marks the return of canny Detective Kylie Milliard and peels back layers of secrets to reveal a sinister puzzle that's too close to home. A vivid and emotional white-knuckle read."xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0— Tessa Wegert , author of The Kind to Kill "Atmospheric and suspenseful, Up Close is littered with jaw dropping moments throughout. Girard delivers another relentless thriller that will have you at the edge of your seat, formulating theory after theory, only to twist the ending in a way you'll never see coming—not once, but twice. Satisfying and poignant, it's a brilliant end to the Badlands series."xa0— Jaime Lynn Hendricks , bestselling author of Finding Tessa "Hallelujah—Detective Kylie Milliard and the folks of Hagen, North Dakota, are back! The propulsive plot of Up Close will keep you turning pages late into the night while the deftly-drawn characters will make your heart ache. Danielle Girard is at the top of her game with this electrifying mystery."— Jess Lourey , Edgar-nominated author of The Quarry Girls "Take one small town, a few dead teenagers, and layer in a wall of silence surrounding strange risk-taking behavior (or is it just a series of unrelated accidents?) on behalf of local high schoolers. What you get is Up Close , an edge-of-your seat puzzle of a thriller by the supremely talented Danielle Girard who deftly drops a breadcrumb trail of clues that make you think you're on the right trail, but you won't be. With its tightly interlocking jigsaw of motives, secrets, and lies, Up Close will keep you turning pages late into the night as you try to sort out just what those kids are up to, which adults might be culpable, and how the whole thing fits together. A stellar read!"xa0— Deborah Goodrich Royce , nationally bestselling and award-winning author of Reef Road, Ruby Falls, and Finding Mrs. Ford Danielle Girard is the USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author of Chasing Darkness, the Rookie Club series, and Exhume, Excise, Expose, and Expire featuring San Francisco medical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman. Danielle's books have won the Barry Award and the RT Reviewers' Choice Award, and two of her titles have been optioned for film. A graduate of Cornell University, Girard received her MFA at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She splits her time between San Francisco and the northern Rockies.xa0Danielle is also the host of Killer Women Podcast where she interviews the women who write today's darkest fiction. Find episodes on Facebook, YouTube or your favorite podcast provider.xa0 Her latest release, Up Close, is available now.xa0xa0Series Order:Badlands Thriller Series:xa0White Outxa0Far GoneUp Closexa0Dr. Schwartzman Series:ExhumeExciseExposeExpirexa0The Exxa0The Rookie Club Series:Dead CenterOne Clean ShotDark PassageGrave DangerEverything to LoseToo Close to Home (A Rookie Club Short Story, exclusive to Danielle's readers group. Join on her website.)Standalone Novels:Savage ArtRuthless GameChasing Darkness (winner of the RT Reviewers' Choice Award)Cold Silence (winner of the Barry Award)
Features & Highlights
- It's every parent's worst nightmare.
- In only a few months, the small town of Hagen has lost two high school seniors, both under strange circumstances. When a third senior, the mayor's son, drives through the plate glass window of the town's diner and ends up in a coma, the deaths no longer seem unrelated accidents. The town is paralyzed with fear. The police can find no good explanation. Other students deny any knowledge of what's happening, but Detective Kylie Milliard is certain at least some are lying.Hagen's sole investigator, Kylie Milliard fears that something sinister is at play, but she can't convince the town's powers that be to take her concerns seriously. Mounting discord between herself and Hagen's sheriff have her thinking that it may be time to leave Hagen for a bigger city and a new job, but she's not going anywhere until she determines the connection between the self-destructive act of the mayor's son and the two untimely deaths. Whoever is behind the dangerous stunts doesn't want to be discovered. To keep their secret, they're willing to take out anyone who gets too close. With time running out before the next stunt, Kylie is in a race to solve the puzzle. She is all too clear that, until she does, no one-not the students, nor the town-is safe from danger."
- Up Close
- is a complex and riveting page-turner that will keep you guessing right to the last page! Girard drops twist after twist in this absorbing, thrilling read. Deeply satisfying, you won't want to put his one down!"—
- Lisa Regan
- ,
- USA Today
- &
- WSJ
- Bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series"Danielle Girard is a phenomenal writer. In
- Up Close
- , her insightful and compulsively readable new novel, she creates a vivid portrait of a tight-knit small town grappling with a series of teenage deaths. Accidents or murder? Girard keeps you guessing until the final, breathtaking twist."—
- Jillian Medoff
- , author of
- When We Were Bright and Beautiful
- "In this complicated kaleidoscope of a story, Girard effortlessly ratchets up the tension page by page until the shocking ending.
- Up Close's
- nightmarish premise is executed flawlessly. This thrilling tale from one of our best suspense writers will keep you up late into the night. Highly recommended."—
- J.T. Ellison,
- NYT
- Bestselling author of
- It's One of Us
- "Danielle Girard's finely honed talents are on full display in her latest thriller, which marks the return of canny Detective Kylie Milliard and peels back layers of secrets to reveal a sinister puzzle that's too close to home. A vivid and emotional white-knuckle read."—
- Tessa Wegert
- , author of
- The Kind to Kill
- "Atmospheric and suspenseful,
- Up Close
- is littered with jaw dropping moments throughout. Girard delivers another relentless thriller that will have you at the edge of your seat. Satisfying and poignant."—
- Jaime Lynn Hendricks
- , bestselling author of
- I Didn't Do It
- "Hallelujah—Detective Kylie Milliard and the folks of Hagen, North Dakota, are back! The propulsive plot of
- Up Close
- will keep you turning pages late into the night while the deftly-drawn characters will make your heart ache. Danielle Girard is at the top of her game."—
- Jess Lourey
- , Edgar-nominated author of
- The Quarry Girls
- "Up Close
- [is] an edge-of-your seat puzzle of a thriller by the supremely talented Danielle Girard. With its tightly interlocking jigsaw of motives, secrets, and lies,
- Up Close
- will keep you turning pages late into the night... A stellar read!—
- Deborah Goodrich Royce
- , nationally bestselling and award-winning author of
- Reef Road, Ruby Falls, and Finding Mrs. Ford
- "Danielle Girard excels at creating complex characters with intricate relationships who enthrall while leading us on a gripping, suspenseful journey to the truth. As the threads come together with pulse-pounding reveals, I could not step away from this book for a second. A nail-biting read!"—
- Samantha M. Bailey
- ,
- USA Today
- and #1 national bestselling author of
- Woman on the Edge
- and
- Watch Out for Her
