The Bad Ones

Bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with The Bad Ones, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history

Goddess, goddess, count to five
In the morning, who's alive?

In the course of a single winter's night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town.

Nora's estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca's disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town's past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games. . . .

An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, The Bad Ones is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.

Author: Melissa Albert
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.11h x 5.35w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781250894892
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 11/13/2023
Booklist 12/01/2023 pg. 121
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2024

About the Author
Melissa Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of Our Crooked Hearts and the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children's Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.