Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Thriller / suspense fiction

FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

Samantha Downing

USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school - complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson...

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest.
He says his wife couldn't be more proud - though no one has seen her in a while.
Teddy really can't be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus that're looking more and more like murder or the student digging a little too deep into Teddy's personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.
All he wants is for his colleagues - and the endlessly meddlesome parents - to stay out of his way. If not, well, they'll get what they deserve.
It's really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost.

Samantha Downing currently lives in New Orleans, where she is furiously typing away at her next thrilling novel.

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Book Published 2021-07-20 by Berkley

Comments

Samantha Downing delivers a slick and chilling thriller, leading readers on a dark, sinuous journey through the halls of Belmont Academy - the type of place where you're never sure who to trust, or who to fear. Suspenseful, surprising, and completely original.

Dark, sly and delicious... totally original - and totally compelling.

So dark and twisted, so deliciously evil, it'll not only make you frantically turn those pages to find out who's targeting whom, but the wry sense of humor will have you laughing out loud, too. Another phenomenal wild-ride of a read from one of the crime-writing community's most talented authors. Bet you'll never look at high-school the same way again.

Holy revenge, Batman! This is a delicious page-turner with so many layers of revenge, you won't soon forget. I absolutely loved watching how this unfolded starting with a jerk teacher at a prep school who thinks it's his job to punish others into being better... I'm super excited about this one so mark your calendars for July 20th.

Just finished reading this wonderfully dark, twisty and compelling thriller set in a prestigious private school. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end.

'm a huge fan of Samantha Downing, who is masterful at creating diabolical characters and deliciously chilling plots. An absolutely terrific book!

Samantha Downing serves up another cast of deliciously mendacious characters in an exclusive private school setting, where the deadly action drives a brilliantly tense, taut and twisty plot. I may never look at my coffee in the same way again.

[T]his thriller nonetheless offers darkly comic amusement and ample surprises from its cast of unabashedly amoral schemers. Downing remains a writer to watch. Read more...

All the dark fun of Election, but with Downing's signature, diabolical spin. For Your Own Good is so utterly unputdownable, I look forward to reading it again. I think even the novel's own trickiest private school teacher, Teddy Crutcher, would have to give it an A+.

Downing's spare prose packs a wallop as she deftly ratchets up the suspense with every hairpin turn of this lean, mean, surprising, and utterly propulsive thriller.

UK: Penguin UK