The Devil You Know: A Novel by Elisabeth de Mariaffi 336 pages
Evie Jones grew up in a town where many of the children came up missing only to be found later dead, their bodies, tortured, sexually abused, sometimes maimed. A tangible fear clung in the air causing townies to keep checking over their shoulders for someone lurking in the shadows. Eleven year old Evie's best friend, Lianne Gagnon disappeared and no one was ever caught for the crimes. Evie grew up and along with her other best friend, David Patton, worked as a crime reporter for the local paper. Her boss a ludicrous, bossy but nice woman gives Evie an assignment dealing with the missing girl stories, a where are they now piece. Delving back into the events brings tortured memories and dreams to Evie, she can't escape. Evie starts getting paranoid believing the killer is now or maybe still after her. She reads way too much into everything and eventually people start thinking she is going off the deep end. She cannot let the facts of the cases go and starts sleuthing to see if she can draw the killer out and see that the killer is captured at last. So many possible suspects including her buddy David's father! This wedges a stake in their maybe working toward amorous relationship. Evie is on a mission and even though David tells her to back off of his father even if he is a jerk who has a thing for young attractive girls. Suddenly, I'm thinking David is protesting a little too much....hmmmm....he doesn't even like his Dad for the most part... A good who-done-it? Even if Evie's OCD becomes a bit like fingernails on a chalkboard. I recommend this one to mature teens on up. The subject matter might be a little hard to take for middle schoolers, and might even be so for high schoolers.
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