The Executioners Three

Ages 13 to 18

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard comes The Executioners Three, a foggy, autumn mystery filled with gruesome murders, secret sleuthing, and a gorgeous rival from a different high school—all set in a small town where legends from long ago now haunt the present day.

Freddie Gellar didn't mean to get half the rival high school arrested. She’d simply heard shrieks coming from the woods, so she’d called the cops like any good human would do. How was she supposed to know it was just kids partying?

Except the next day, a body is found. And while the local sheriff might call it suicide, Freddie's instincts tell her otherwise. So, like the aspiring sleuth (and true X-Files aficionado) she is, Freddie sets out to prove there's a murderer at large.

But her investigation is quickly disrupted by the rivalry between her school and the school of the partying teens she got arrested. For over twenty years, the two student bodies have had an ongoing prank war, and Freddie's failed attempt at Good Samaritanism has upped the ante. Worse, the clever—and gorgeous—leader of the rival prank squad has set his sights on Freddie.

As more pranks unfurl, more bodies also start piling up in the forest. But it's the supernatural warning signs around town, each plucked straight from an old forgotten poem called "The Executioners Three," that worry Freddie the most. She knows the poem and its blood curse can’t be real, but she's quickly running out of time to prove it.

Because the murderer—or executioners?—knows she's onto them now, and their next target just might be Freddie.

About the Author

Susan Dennard is the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Witchlands series (now in development for TV from the Jim Henson Company), the Luminaries series, and the Something Strange and Deadly series, as well as various short stories and other tales across the internet. She also runs the popular newsletter for writers, Misfits and Daydreamers. When not writing or teaching writing, she can be found reading, playing with her daughter, or mashing buttons on one of her way too many consoles.