A group of teens protect the killer among them in this chilling young
adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.
When their classmate Al dies, Julie and her friends aren't exactly
broken up about it. They couldn't stand him and even found themselves
wishing he were dead more than once. But no matter what everyone else
seems to suspect, Julie knows her friends, and there's no way any of
them actually did anything about their shared hatred of Al. Her
friends aren't killers.
But then one of them confesses to the group.
It's a terrible shock, but Julie and the others aren't going to turn on
one of their own just like that--Al was terrible, after all. They make
a pact to keep the killer's secret. It had to have been a one-time
thing...right?