At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.

'Both tragic and cathartic' New York Times British Columbia, 1997. Under the Bridge traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account based on six years of research and interviews with the accused that offers insight into the social tensions that provoked the crime and the minds of teenage killers. By the author of The Torn Skirt. PRAISE FOR UNDER THE BRIDGE 'A tour-de-force of true crime reportage' Kirkus Reviews 'A swift, harrowing classic' Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation 'Mixes novelistic suspense with a journalist's key eye for detail' Bustle 'Hypnotic, obsessive, wonderfully transformative' John Guare, author of Six Degrees of Separation