Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

Kill Her Twice

Stacey Lee

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · April 22, 2025

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes a YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown.

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Who it’s for
A lean, category-friendly mystery bite with teen-led tension and a clean, fast read.
Genres
YA Mysteries, 20th-Century US YA, Asian American YA
Published
Penguin Young Readers Group, April 22, 2025

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes a YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown. Now in paperback! “A captivating and crackling noir full of suspenseful twists.

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Readers will fall in love with the Chow sisters and their quest for the truth.” —Kathleen Glasgow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and The Agathas LOS ANGELES, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically everyone, especially the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu when they discover a body one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills home where she lived after her fame skyrocketed. The sisters suspect Lulu’s death is the result of foul play, but the police don’t seem motivated to investigate. Even worse, there are signs that point to a cover-up, and powerful forces in the city want to frame the killing as evidence that Chinatown is a den of iniquity and crime, even more reason it should be demolished to make room for the construction of a new railway depot, Union Station. Worried that neither the police nor the papers will treat Lulu fairly—no matter her fame and wealth—the sisters set out to solve their friend’s murder themselves, and maybe save their neighborhood in the bargain. But with Lulu’s killer still on the loose, the girls’ investigation just might put them square in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded murderer.

Quick-turn mystery

A lean, category-friendly mystery bite with teen-led tension and a clean, fast read.

Come here for

  • teen sleuth energy
  • crime-thriller pace

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  • amateur-detective setup
  • YA crime-thriller beats

Where it sits

YA Mysteries83%
Asian American YA75%
20th-Century US YA58%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • 20th-Century US YA
  • YA Mysteries
  • Asian American YA
Authors
Stacey Lee
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
April 22, 2025
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
20th-Century US YA