You'd have to be crazy to make friends with a murderer...When 15-year-old Chas finds a website asking people to write to prisoners on Death Row, he decides it would be funny to get letters from a murderer. He writes to an inmate, pretending to be his mum, but the chilling replies are not what he expects. Chas's own wild escapades land him in a young offender's institute, where he learns that his penpal has been released. And is coming to find him...
How it reads
Plot intensityEventful
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Written forYoung adult
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ThemesJustice
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