Dead Popular: A slow-burn, YA boarding school thriller

Pankhurst House has a new queen.

Beautiful, popular and newly crowned House Prefect Kate Jordan-Ferreira is ready to rule her final year at Mount Norton. The plan is simple: throw an unforgettable illegal party that will make boarding school history.

But when someone starts exposing students' secrets in the sixth-form common room, Kate realises someone is playing a much more dangerous game - and they know too much about her past.

As the whispers spread through the dorms and the danger creeps closer, Kate needs to figure out who's behind it or her final year at Pankhurst could be exactly that: her final year.

An addictive and twisty slow-burn teen thriller, "Dead Popular" is ideal for fans of Faridah Àbíkè-Íyímídé's "Ace of Spades" and Jennifer Niven's "When We Were Monsters".

Former journalist Sue Wallman, now a secondary school librarian, is an award-winning author and one of the UK's top teen thriller writers. Her debut featured in the WHSmith/Zoella book club.

"Wallman's writing is sharp, her teenagers are well-drawn, and the plot is enough to make the parents of any teens at boarding school blanch." Crime Review

Shortlisted for the Amazing Book Awards 2020

WHSmith Book of the Month 2019