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Cynthia Murphy

    Cynthia crafts chilling, contemporary tales for young adults by weaving together a fascination with art history and archaeology with modern settings. Her writing is deeply influenced by a lifelong love for the scary, evolving from early horror novels to classic 90s and 00s horror films. She endeavors to create unique and unsettling modern stories by blending the ancient and the contemporary. Her work offers a distinctive voice in YA horror.

    Keep Your Friends Close
    Last One To Die
    Win Lose Kill Die
    The Midnight Game
    • The Midnight Game

      • 354 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      When a group who have met on a creepy Deddit thread decide to meet in real life, they only have one plan in mind: they are going to summon the Midnight Man. And once you start the Midnight Game, you must finish it - there's no other way out! Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors?

      The Midnight Game
      3.8
    • Win Lose Kill Die

      • 308 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      An explosive new YA thriller, from the author of Last One To Die.The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected based on academic excellence. So when a series of murders target the school's brightest and best, the pressure is on.

      Win Lose Kill Die
      3.6
    • A supernatural thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end. Packed with voice-driven whodunit storytelling, and a classic slasher-movie feel, this dark, pacy, and irresistibly creepy thriller really has something for everybody!16-year-old, Irish-born Niamh has just arrived in London for the summer, and quickly discovers that girls who look frighteningly like her are being attacked.Determined to make it through her Drama Course, Niamh is placed at the Victorian Museum to put her drama skills to the test, and there she meets he’s kind, fun, attentive, and really hot! Nonetheless, there's something eerie about the museum...As present-day serial attacker and sinister Victorian history start to collide, Niamh realizes that things are not as they seem. Will she be next?

      Last One To Die
      3.4
    • Keep Your Friends Close

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      From the bestselling author of BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die and 'CEO of Plot Twists' comes an explosive dark academia thriller, perfect for fans of Karen M. McManus, Holly Jackson and Mean Girls. 'A thriller author to watch!' Karen M. McManus, international bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying Chloe Roberts is on top of the world at Morton Academy. She's a shoo-in for Head Girl and the lead spot in the school's secret society: Jewel and Bone. But then her best friend, Nikhita Patel, betrays her, and life comes crashing down. Things take a darker turn when Chloe stumbles upon the Book of Crime and Punishment - a record of every misdeed committed by Morton students and the fitting penalty. And it's not long before entries in the book start to match up with murders of Jewel and Bone members. Anyone could be a suspect. Can Chloe get to the bottom of this twisted game before she's next on the killer's hit list . . . ?

      Keep Your Friends Close