Kill Creatures

Author: Power, Rory

Interest age: from c 14 years

Published on 5 June 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
168 x 385 x 27 | 200g

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“Kill Creatures blew me away. A YA thriller

masterclass. Nan is a standout protagonist, all jagged edges and

pointed teeth but with a soft and vulnerable underbelly. I cannot

stop thinking about it. Rory Power is at her very best”

- Laura Steven, author of Our Infinite Fates“A

shuddery and gripping specter of a book,

Kill Creatures is an ode to the knife-sharp edges of teenage

friendship.” - Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling

author of A Study in Drowning“Electric.a

terrifying and stunningly crafted thriller.”

- Kara A. Kennedy, author of I Will Never Leave You“Kill

Creatures grabs you

by the throat and demands to be read in a single sitting.”

- Kara Thomas, author of That Weekend and The Cheerleaders“Kill

Creatures is a pulse-pounding

page-turner. A true master class in suspense, character,

and tension.” - Kayla Cottingham, New York Times

bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest

  From the bestselling author of Wilder

Girls and queen of twisty narratives, Rory Power, comes her

highly anticipated new Young Adult thriller. Last

summer, Nan's three best friends disappeared into Saltcedar Canyon.

She's spent the year since grieving their loss and avoiding

questions about what happened that night. Now, on the anniversary,

she's ready to say goodbye, and so are the girls' families,

who have reconvened to hold a memorial. But their vigil is interrupted

by the shocking return of one of the missing girls alive.

Everybody is overjoyed. Everybody, that is, except Nan, who was

pretty sure they were dead.

After all, she's the one who

killed them.

Atmospheric, fast-paced and vividly realised, Kill Creatures

is a book about secrets, jealousy, violence and revenge.

Perfect for fans of A Good Girls Guide to Murder

and Gone Girl.

  Reviews

for Wilder Girls: 'Your new

favourite book' Cosmopolitan'Wholly

original and compelling'  Observer'A staggering gut punch of a book' Kirkus 

Rory Power lives in Rhode Island.

She has an MA in prose fiction from the University of East

Anglia, and is the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder

Girls, Burn Our Bodies Down, and In a Garden

Burning Gold.