title: Beautiful Malice: A Novel
author:  Rebecca James 
description: Starred Review. "I didn't go to Alice's funeral." So opens Australian author James's impressive debut, a searing coming-of-age novel that deftly intertwines two violent backstories. Studious Katherine Patterson, who's reading a book under a tree during lunchtime at her Sydney high school, is surprised when Alice Parrie, "beautiful, popular, impossible to miss," hands Katherine an invitation to her 18th birthday party. Alice draws Katherine, who has her reasons for remaining aloof from others, into an addictive relationship that fatally sours as one disturbing secret after another comes to light. James, gifted with unusual insight into teenage agonies, probes Katherine's raw-nerve guilt over her sister Rachel's murder, Alice's self-destructive narcissism, and the healing power of young love. This unflinching exploration of psychological manipulation and the tragedies it creates introduces a promising new talent in literary suspense. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: ALSO BY JAMIE MCGUIRE
  THE PROVIDENCE SERIES
  Providence
  Requiem
  Eden
  Sins of the Innocent: A Novella
  THE BEAUTIFUL SERIES
  Beautiful Disaster
  Walking Disaster
  A Beautiful Wedding: A Novella
  Something Beautiful: A Novella
  THE MADDOX BROTHERS BOOKS
  Beautiful Oblivion
  Beautiful Redemption
  Beautiful Sacrifice
   
  Apolonia
   
  Red Hill
  Among Monsters: A Novella
   
  Happenstance: A Novella Series (Books 1-3)
   
  Sweet Nothing
  
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