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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel’s birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect life Marcel inherited when their father left Amir’s mother to start a new family with Marcel’s mom. But Chloe is hot enough for Amir to forget that for one night.
Does she want to hook up? Or is she trying to meddle in the estranged brothers’ messy family drama? Amir can’t tell. He doesn’t know what Chloe wants from him when, in the final hours of Mardi Gras, she asks him to take her home and stay—her parents are away and she doesn’t want to be alone.
Amir never finds out, because when he wakes up, Chloe is dead—stabbed while he was passed out on the couch. And in no time, Amir becomes the only suspect. A Black teenager caught fleeing the scene of a rich white girl’s murder? All of New Orleans agrees: the case is open-and-shut.
Amir is innocent. He has a lawyer, but unless someone can figure out who really killed Chloe, things don’t look good for him. His number one ally? Marcel. Their relationship is messy, but Marcel knows that Amir isn’t a murderer—and maybe proving his innocence will repair the rift between them.
To find Chloe’s killer, Amir and Marcel need to dig into her secrets. And what they find is darker than either could have guessed. Parents will go to any lengths to protect their children, and in a city as old as New Orleans, the right family connections can bury even the ugliest truths.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593794760
- File size: 297948 KB
- Duration: 10:20:43
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 790
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Starred review from October 23, 2023
Seventeen-year-old Amir Trudeau had no intention of showing up to his estranged half brother Marcel’s extravagant 16th birthday party, until he receives a text from Chloe Danvers, the most popular girl at his affluent and predominantly white school. At the party, Amir unexpectedly hits it off with Chloe and goes home with her at the end of the night. Upon waking, however, he finds her stabbed to death. Now, he’s the prime suspect in a high-profile murder case. As public opinion quickly turns on him, Amir discovers an unexpected ally in Marcel, who doggedly searches for the true culprit in hopes of repairing their strained relationship. During their investigation, the brothers learn that Chloe had been on the verge of revealing dark secrets about the most powerful families in New Orleans before her death. Emill (The Black Queen) employs smart sleuthing, messy teen dynamics, and hidden agendas, as well as liberal use of Black cultural references and a vividly portrayed New Orleans, to present a propulsive and engaging thriller. Between scenes that explore the dark realities of media coverage and the systematic racism of the justice system, Emill expounds upon the Trudeau brothers’ flawed family dynamics as they slowly learn to lean on each other in the face of extreme prejudice. The Trudeaus are Black and Chloe is white; Marcel is openly gay. Ages 12–up. Agent: Alec Shane, Writers House.
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