Blood on my hands: Part 2

   Blood on my hands by Todd Strasser is a amazing book it's in the combination between thriller and suspenseful book that would make you feel like you were there looking at it and apart of it because it's so specific and precise with the words. Blood on my hands is about a girl named Callie who is begin framed for her friend's murder and she has to figure out before the cops get her so that she doesn't go to jail. But then when she found out who did it she was totally shocked and surprised on who killed her friend Kathrine.

 To begin off with Callie trying too prove her innocents is that she believes it's one of Katherine's friends who don't really get along with her that well, Dakota, she thought that because she herd how them both were not talking for a month because Dakota met this guy she liked and then Katherine told the guy how Dakota's a "slut" and "has diseases" and then Dakota was mad so sent death threat's to the guy's phone about Katherine and him. Callie also thought it was Dakota because the knife from the crime scene looked like the set of knifes Dakota had in her kitchen. Callie was so convinced that Dakota killed Katherine that she even went to their congresswomen (which is Dakotas mom) to convince her that her own daughter killed Katherine, but it didn't work out for Callie she didn't believe her so she called the cop's so Callie went back to her hiding space but once she thought all cop's were gone and she went the sheriff was right there (which is Dakotas uncle) waiting for her to leave and she got arrested. But threw all that it wasn't Dakota who killed Katherine.

  So threw all trouble she went threw she eventually got arrested, when she got there they cops told her that Dakota didn't kill Katherine, then Callie was lost. Later her lawyer told her that she should take the self defense bargain because it looked like she wasn't going to go free but Callie wouldn't do it because she knew she didn't kill Katherine. And luckily she didn't take it because they let her go one morning and the only thing they had her do was wear a ankle bracelet and not leave the city, but she heard that her boyfriend Slade left town because he couldn't handle it so she went out of town to find him. When she found him he was in a bar then they went to the motel he was staying at and she slept the night but before that she cut off the ankle bracelet before getting in bed so he wouldn't be freaked out. In the morning they were woken up by the police at the door so once Callie opened the door she put her hands behind her back ready to go back to the police station but they walked passed her and said "Slade Lamont you are begin arrested for the murder of Katherine Remington-Day. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. Do you understand these right's as they have been read to you?" It all started off when Slade was in army training and people from his unit were being sent overseas but he didn't want to be sent overseas, he would do anything not to go overseas. It played out by Dakota offering Slade her mother can get him out of going overseas (her mom had no idea about that), as long as Slade would do something for her. The thing Dakota wanted Slade to do was take the knife that Dakota had stolen from Katherine's house and scare her with it. The reason Dakota wanted him to do this is because Katherine was a lesbian who liked Callie (that's why she made Callie break up with Slade) and Dakota had a crush on Katherine but she didn't want to be a lesbian, so she thought killing her would make the feeling's go away. Once Slade was there to scare Katherine she realized it was him under the mask so she mocked him by saying stuff and taunting him and laughing, and Slade was depressed because Callie broke up with him but he didn't know why she did but when Katherine told him that she forced Callie to break up with him then he just killed her with all the rage he had inside.

  Overall this is a book that kept me on the edge of my seat every page and you should really read this teen thriller by Todd Strasser. This book is a perfect example of social justice because a young girl was about to be sent to jail over someone else's crime but at the end justice came to the person who did the crime. This book is amazing if you like thriller's so if you do this is one you would want to read.