Michelle Gagnon – författare

In Michelle Gagnon’s debut YA thriller, Don’t Turn Around, computer hacker Noa Torson is as smart, tough, and complex as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Lisbeth Salander. The first in a trilogy, Don’t Turn Around’s intricate plot and heart-pounding action will leave readers desperate for book two. Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her hacking skills to stay anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in a warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side.

Enter Peter Gregory. A rich kid and the leader of a hacker alliance, Peter needs people with Noa’s talents on his team. Especially after a shady corporation threatens his life in no uncertain terms. But what Noa and Peter don’t realize is that Noa holds the key to a terrible secret, and there are those who’d stop at nothing to silence her for good. 

This follow-up to the critically acclaimed Don't Turn Around—which Kirkus Reviews called "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, a surefire hit"—raises the stakes to their absolute limit and will leave readers begging for the exciting conclusion. Having outsmarted the sinister Project Persephone, Noa and her friend Zeke are on the run again, moving across the country, protecting runaways before they become test subjects for the Project's horrific experiments. Noa knows all too well what that feels like: Whatever was done to her has left her exhausted and scared.

Back in Boston, Peter anxiously follows Noa's movements from his computer. But he's desperate to do more, especially when he learns what the Project has done to his ex-girlfriend, Amanda.

Then, in an explosive confrontation, Noa and her team are trapped in the one place they thought was safe. It will take everything Noa and Peter have to bring down the Project. And with no one to trust and enemies hiding at every turn, they may be the only people alive who can.

In this pulse-pounding final installment of the Don’t Turn Around trilogy, which Kirkus Reviews called “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, a surefire hit,” Noa and Peter race across the country in their search to destroy Project Persephone before time runs out.

Noa Torson is out of options. On the run with the three remaining teens of Persephone’s Army, she is up against immeasurable odds. The group is outnumbered, outsmarted, and outrun. But they are not giving up. When Noa and Peter realize they can’t run anymore, and that Noa’s health is quickly failing, they know they must go back to where this began. But when they come face-to-face with the man who started it all, the question becomes, can they win?

This riveting final book truly ratchets up the action as Noa and Peter confront the evil that has chased them and won’t let them go.

In Michelle Gagnon’s debut YA thriller, Don’t Turn Around, computer hacker Noa Torson is as smart, tough, and complex as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Lisbeth Salander. The first in a trilogy, Don’t Turn Around’s intricate plot and heart-pounding action will leave readers desperate for book two. Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her hacking skills to stay anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in a warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side.

Enter Peter Gregory. A rich kid and the leader of a hacker alliance, Peter needs people with Noa’s talents on his team. Especially after a shady corporation threatens his life in no uncertain terms. But what Noa and Peter don’t realize is that Noa holds the key to a terrible secret, and there are those who’d stop at nothing to silence her for good. 

Gritty and heart-stopping, this short story from break-out author Michelle Gagnon also features a teaser to her thrilling debut young-adult novel, Don''t Turn Around.

Seventeen-year-old Alex might be living day-to-day on whatever he can steal, but he still prefers being on the run to getting caught and thrown back in juvie. Plus, he has Jenny to think of. She comes with her own world of problems, but for once Alex feels like somebody actually needs him. So when a shady organization gives Alex the chance to participate in a medical study, all he hears is easy money—and a lot of it! He''ll soon find out there''s more involved.

Set directly before Don''t Turn Around, which in a starred review Kirkus called a "pulse-pounding scary-great read" and "a surefire hit," Michelle Gagnon''s "No Escape" lays the groundwork for a world in which every move you make is being watched, and no one can be trusted.

First memory. First kiss. First love. First fight. First heartbreak. There''s a first time for everything. Discover five first-time authors with sneak peeks of their debut novels—Don''t Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon, Breathe by Sarah Crossan, What''s Left of Me by Kat Zhang, Through to You by Emily Hainsworth, and Defiance by C. J. Redwine.

Six smarter-than-most teens wake up in the same hospital after having experienced a traumatic event that they can''t quite remember … other than being forcibly sucked into an abyss at the moment of their deaths. With individual clocks ticking—and with each guarding an individual secret—they band together and conspire to piece together the whole of what happened.

HJÄLTEN BLIR OFFRET När världens främsta förhandlare vid gisslandraman kidnappas av en skoningslös drogkartell blir Jake Riley oundvikligen indragen i räddningsaktionen. Men han ställs mot Los Zetas, en paramilitär elitorganisation, ryktbar för sin grymhet och skicklighet. Nu måste han och hans kollegor navigera genom Mexikos mörka skuggsidor, från rasande gatustrider till farliga djungler, i sina försök att befria mannen innan det är för sent.   FBI-agent Kelly Jones senaste fall höll på att kosta henne livet. Fast besluten att återfå sitt självförtroende ansluter hon sig till Jake på hans uppdrag och hamnar direkt i hetluften. I Mexico Citys slumkvarter stöter hon på en fiende som antas vara död, en galning som utför en mardrömslik ritual med de svaga och sårbara. Nu har hon en sista chans att visa för sig själv vad hon går för – genom att fälla mördaren.

Drogad och bunden vaknar en flicka upp till en mardröm …Kidnappningen av sextonåriga Madison blir upptakten på en fasansfull terroristkomplott som ställer FBI-agenten Kelly Jones mot hennes mäktigaste motståndare någonsin. Det kidnapparen begär är inte pengar, utan ett pris som ingen har råd att betala.Samtidigt som utredaren Jake Riley, som dessutom är Kellys fästman, kämpar mot klockan för att hitta Madison får Kelly hand om ett annat olustigt fall: styckmordet på en senator. Till en början verkar de två fallen inte ha något med varandra att göra, men medan Kelly navigerar genom USA:s mörkaste bakgator – från skinheads, via mc-gäng till gränsvakter – upptäcker hon den hemska sanningen. En person som verkar i skuggorna har öppnat dörren till det som ser ut att bli den värsta inhemska attacken i USA:s historia.