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Seventeen-year-old Hilda Swann and her friend Benji spend their days in Los Angeles visiting scenes of celebrity deaths and suicides, but when they meet Hank, an elderly recluse who seems to have something to hide, Hilda begins to question their fascination with the macabre.
First publish date: 2010
Authors: Kathy Charles
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