My Beloved Monster By Marta Labecka

Norwood, North Carolina, was considered the most peaceful place in the world. The residents knew each other perfectly – they were aware of the joys and sorrows of their neighbors, they spent time together, they were friends. Nothing bad ever happens in Norwood – it was repeated. Adults said these words with gentle calm, the youth with a certain irritation. For all its idyllic nature, their town was simply boring.

Until the day Chadwick Myers decided to destroy this peace and aimed a gun at his best friends. The absence of his girlfriend Holly Wilson from school made her, in everyone’s eyes, an accomplice in a terrible crime, as a result of which the town of Norwood suddenly found itself on the front pages of newspapers all over America.
What was hidden behind the terrible act of Holly’s beloved?
Was Chadwick Myers really the monster that the residents of Norwood believe him to be?
Will the girl manage to find the truth?