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He's the only one who'll come for her — and he has nothing left to lose.Fifteen-year-old Patrick Stone is the kind of kid his town has learned to overlook. His father drank and swung his fists. His mother is gone. He's grown so thin this winter that no one has noticed his belt no longer holds. He has his bike, one friend he's too afraid to love, and almost nothing else.Then, riding an empty road at first light, he hears a scream — and finds Taylor White dead in the woods, a stranger slipping away through the trees.In this town, the police decide who's worth the trouble. A girl like Taylor never made the list. A boy like Patrick never will. So Patrick starts asking the questions no one else will: of Taylor's hollowed-out mother, of the dealer working the kids behind the gas station, of the man at school everyone whispers about and no one stops. Every answer makes it clearer that Taylor died protecting a secret — and that the men keeping it would sooner bury another body than let it out.The one person in his corner is Wendy: sharp, fearless, the single good thing in his life. But the closer they get to the truth, the closer the killer gets to them.Patrick has nothing. That's exactly what makes him dangerous.The Dead Don't Talk is book one of the Patrick Stone series — a dark YA mystery for readers of Karen M. McManus and Holly Jackson.Content note: intended for older teen and adult readers; contains dark themes. Read more
