Here’s my Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selection #4: Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 

Publishes: March 19, 2024 by Feiwel & Friends

Length: 416 pages

Genre: Young Adult Mystery/Thriller 

Why I’m Excited

I inhaled Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s first mystery Ace of Spades. I was totally creeped out and could not put it down. I read it soon after it came out in 2021 and still think about it. This new title sounds equally creepy and page turning! I usually don’t read scary books, but there was something about the writing style in Ace of Spades that had me 100% in. I can’t wait to get back to that feeling! 

From the Publisher

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades ― a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again. To make me remember. But the switch isn’t there. Was it there before?

Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After being home-schooled all her life and feeling like a magnet for misfortune, she’s not sure what will happen. What she doesn’t expect though is for her roommate Elizabeth to disappear after Sade’s first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it.

With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention of the most popular girls in school – collectively known as the ‘Unholy Trinity’ – and they bring her into their fold. Between learning more about them – especially Persephone, who Sade finds herself drawn to – playing catch-up in class, and trying to figure out what happened to Elizabeth, Sade has a lot on her plate. It doesn’t help that she’s already dealing with grief from the many tragedies in her family.

And then a student is found dead.

The more Sade investigates, the more she realizes there’s more to Alfred Nobel Academy and its students than she realized. Secrets lurk around every corner and beneath every surface…secrets that rival even her own.

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Past Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selections

Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selection #1 Jan. 24, 2024: Library Lover’s Mystery #14 Fatal First Edition by Jenn McKinlay

Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selection #2 Jan. 31, 2024: Queens of London by Heather Webb 

Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selection #3 February 7, 2024: Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray