You Killed Wesley Payne
by:
Sean Beaudoin (author)
He's come to do a job. A job that involves a body. A body wrapped in duct tape found hanging from the goal posts at the end of the football field.You Killed Wesley Payne is a truly original update of classic pulp-noir filled with dark humor. Hard-boiled seventeen year-old Dalton Rev transfers...
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He's come to do a job. A job that involves a body. A body wrapped in duct tape found hanging from the goal posts at the end of the football field.You Killed Wesley Payne is a truly original update of classic pulp-noir filled with dark humor. Hard-boiled seventeen year-old Dalton Rev transfers to the mean hallways of Salt River High to take on the toughest case of his life. The question isn't whether Dalton's going to get paid. He always gets paid. Or whether he's gonna get the girl. He always (sometimes) gets the girl. The real question is whether Dalton Rev can outwit crooked cops and power-hungry cliques in time to solve the mystery of "The Body" before it solves him.Sean Beaudoin (Going Nowhere Faster, Fade to Blue) evokes the distinctive voices of legendary crime/noir authors Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson with a little bit of Mean Girls and Heathers thrown in for good measure. It'll tease you, please you, and never ever leave you. Actually, that's not true. It's only a book. One that's going to suck you in, spit you out, and make you shake hands with the devil. Probably.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316122221 (031612222X)
Publish date: February 1st 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
A very quick review. Yes, there will be grammatical errors. My apologies.This was an odd read. I found it by turns quite good but then the writing style was so "trying to be noir" that it just kept popping me out of the world. There are some serious issues that are dealt with rather nicely, but the ...
I'd say worth the read, but not life-altering. Pacing was great, as was the tone, but some plot elements seemed odd. To the author's credit, I can see how that might have to be forgiven when writing a teen mystery, but still, there were times when my disbelief couldn't be suspended. I will say, thou...
As soon as I got home I put it in the bag to return to the library. It just wasn't working for me.Library copy.
I never recommend reading the last page first, but for this book, that is a must! The last few pages of the book condense all of the characters into an easy to follow form. There are so many cliques and factions to follow that it makes the reading so much more pleasurable when you know exactly who ...
This is a humor, mystery, YA, and a bit of film noir thrown in for good measure. I will admit that when I first started reading the book the language took me a minute to get used to hearing in my head. It is a mixture of the film noir type of heavy language with a bit of made up YA slang. However, o...