USA Today, Globe & Mail, and Toronto Star bestseller and a 2025 Edgar Award nominee. His YA mystery Keep This to Yourself (2019) was the winner of the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Thriller, the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Book, and the 2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award. His follow-up YA mystery I I Hope You're Listening (2020) was the winner of the 2021 Lambda “Lammy” Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery.
Ryan’s latest novel is We Had a Hunch.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "six of my favorite adult novels featuring young sleuths." One novel on the list:
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity PhysicsRead about another novel on the list.
Part coming-of-age story, part twisty whodunnit, Special Topics follows Blue van Meer, a precocious teen who finds herself unraveling the mysterious death of a beloved teacher. It’s clever, funny, packed with literary Easter eggs, and impossible to put down, with an ending I didn’t see coming.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is among Caroline Wolff's seven mysterious & unsettling novels set on campuses, Erin Mayer's eleven disturbing cliques in literature, Kiley Reid’s five top novels with incredible child caregivers and Brian Boone's fifty essential high school stories.
The Page 69 Test: Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
--Marshal Zeringue
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