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Authors: Kathleen Hale
Thanks to Erica Sussman, Chris Hernandez, James Frey, Rosemary Stimola, and everyone at Full Fathom Five and Harper Teen who made this book possible.
Thanks also to my beloved readers: Patti, Chris, Sarah McKetta, and my husband, Simon Rich, all of whom have heard the sentences in here spun two different ways who knows how many times. And a big shout-out to the Brooklyn café Ted and Honey, the kind of place that doesn't care if you buy a croissant and a cup of coffee and hang around all day, and where a girl can write a novel if she wants to.
But thanks especially to my dad, the original Dominic Bushman, who is loving and hilarious, and a much better cook than the dad in this series. When I was a kid, he pressed Pause over and over again during our long drives
to school so that he could explain the complicated layers of Bruce Springsteen lyrics (blue-collar ambition interlaid with memories of love long ago extinguished) and fill in the blanks between songs on the
Les Misérables
soundtrack (so that eventually I understood where Javert was coming from, and even the depravity of the innkeepers made some sense to me). At home, he and I watched movies based on the comic books he'd read as a childâmovies that he also paused, about every ten minutes, so that he could explain each character's intricate backstory. And although I shrieked in frustration during these long digressions, my dad's love of the weird and epic ultimately fostered in me a love for storytelling. I have written countless terrible novels that could never be published, but he has always printed them out so he could mark by hand the parts that he loved best.
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KATHLEEN HALE
is the author of
No One Else Can Have You
and has written nonfiction for
The Guardian, Hazlitt, Elle
, and
Vice
, among other places. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Visit her online at
www.kathleen-hale.com
.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hale, Kathleen, 1986â
Nothing bad is going to happen / Kathleen Hale. â First edition.
pages cm
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Kippy finds her boyfriend clinging to life and everyone in town assumes it was an attempted suicide, she must find the culprit who wanted him dead, all the while still haunted by the near-death experience of her last attempt at amateur sleuthing.
ISBN 978-0-06-221121-7 (hardcover)
EPub Edition © December 2015 ISBN 9780062211248
[1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. LoveâFiction.] I. Title.
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