First published 2013
Meg and her best friend Minnie score invitations to an exclusive weekend party on Henry Island. The guest list is small, the house is enormous, and the plan is simple: two days of sun, boys, and no parents. Then someone finds a DVD. The message on it is short and specific. Vengeance is mine. Nobody takes it seriously at first. Then the storm rolls in and cuts the island off from the mainland. Then someone turns up dead. Meg watches the group fracture as fear replaces the music and the drinks. The teens stop trusting each other. The deaths keep coming, and each one is worse than the last. Meg pushes herself to figure out who is doing this before another person she knows gets killed. The answer is closer than she wants to believe. Ten is a locked-room thriller that moves fast, keeps the body count rising, and saves its sharpest twist for the end.
Genres: mystery, horror, thriller, young-adult
Vibes: claustrophobic, dark, fast-paced, suspenseful, tension-filled
Tropes: body-count-rising, locked-room-mystery, survival-horror, twist-ending
Setting: Henry Island
320 pages · Paperback · HarperCollins
Content warnings: death, murder, violence