DEBUT AUTHOR ALISHA KAMAL WRITES A COMPELLING MYSTERY WHERE THE PAST ALWAYS TAINTS THE PRESENT. Piedmont, California, 2024
Jaiden Vasquez-Fairooz is done. He's done with 10th Grade, school, and forgetting to take his ADHD meds. To make his summer even better? He got a job at his favorite comic store ever, Godzilla Comics. He gets to work with his best friend, Isamera Amarin, and the cheery new cashier, Aneko Freedman- the grandniece of the owner, Gabe. And that's all there is to it, of course. If the past didn't find some way to interfere. After finding a hidden door in the shop leading to buried human remains, Jaiden, Aneko and Isamera find themselves unraveling a decades-long trail of murder stained with betrayal- and their very own Gabe Freedman is at the center of it all, letting someone else take the blame. Jaiden had read about heroes all his life. Now, it was his turn to be one and bring Gabe to justice.
Or something like that.