The Executioners Three: Exclusive Edition
Paperback Published on: 26/08/2025
Price: £9.99
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Murder Mystery in the 90s!
This is a 90s murder mystery with blink-and-you-miss-it supernatural elements that will keep the pages turning. Dennard writes fun, relatable heroes in spo... READ MORE
Autumnal Fun!
I read this in a day! Such a great read on a quiet Sunday! I can agree with other Booksellers that this fits the vibe of a Scooby Doo mystery and for that,... READ MORE
A wickedly fun and autumnal small town murder mystery!
The Executioners Three is a deliciously autumnal YA murder mystery set in a historic small town in the 90’s that is brimming with dark secrets and eerie fo... READ MORE
Stranger Things meets Jessica Fletcher
Oh Susan Dennard has done it again. It felt like I was swept back to the 90s with the references to slow technology, Snake on Nokia and Ask Jeeves.
Fredd... READ MORE
Creepy, paranormal, and wonderfully nostaglic small town mystery
Susan Dennard is the best when it comes to writing small towns steeped in creepy history! The atmosphere her words create, the tension you feel alongside t... READ MORE
The Perfect Read for Autumn
Spooky, cosy, and downright exciting, this is another masterpiece from Susan Dennard! I loved the 90's setting, the nostalgia was so much fun to read, and ... READ MORE
Spooky nostalgic murder mystery
The weather took a chilly turn so I decided it was time for this autumnal mystery! I absolutely loved it! Set in the 90s, it was full of nostalgic referenc... READ MORE
Holly Jackson's gothic 90s cousin
This is the spooky (and frankly better) A Good Girl's Guide to Murder...
A curly haired girl with a knowing gut and a film camera? A reconstructed histori... READ MORE
Synopsis
Discover this paranormal 90s-set mystery in a spooky small town hiding dark secrets which stretch back centuries - a perfect Halloween read for Stranger Things fans.
From New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard comes The Executioners Three, a foggy, autumn YA mystery filled with gruesome murders, secret sleuthing, and a gorgeous rival from a different high school-all set in a small town where legends from long ago now haunt the present day.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Daphne Press
- ISBN: 9781837841103
- Number of pages: 368
- Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 25 mm
- Weight: 250g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allSuch a fun and addictive seasonal read. I'm looking forward to the next Susan Dennad.
I had to give it five stars. I was waiting for this book. I loved the luminaries series. Susan Dennard is good at writing small towns with a paranormal, sp... READ MORE
Entertaining and incredibly addictive
Susan Dennard never disappoints—her storytelling is marvellous!
From the very first page, I was completely hooked. The story follows Freddie, a determi... READ MORE
Scooby-doo meets Edgar Allan Poe
This is like a scooby-doo mystery, a YA paranormal story with well developed characters. However sometimes the writing read very cliched, using typical wor... READ MORE
A supernatural murder mystery with fun 90’s references
When a body is found in the woods, local Answer Finder, Freddie, investigates the incident in connection to a mysterious old poem and a slew of deaths mark... READ MORE
Dennard takes us right back to the Nineties, and it's scary.
When I saw that Susan Dennard had another book on the way after finishing The Luminaries series? I was excited to see we were going back to the nineties th... READ MORE
Gilmore Girls meets The X-Files
I received an ARC of The Executioner’s Three, and wow this was such a fun ride! Set in a small town on the brink of Y2K, this book blends nostalgic ’90s vi... READ MORE
Nostalgic and spooky!
This story did the spooky season atmosphere perfectly! It’s set in a tiny historic town surrounded by misty forest during a Halloween festival, it felt lik... READ MORE
Perfect autumnal read
This book immediately immerses the reader in a dark, spine chilling scene and the small town setting while the community gets the town ready for the Hallow... READ MORE
The Executioners Three
A slightly spooky, wonderfully cosy read, perfect for Autumn. This book reminded me of the mystery/paranormal stories I used to read as a teenager, except ... READ MORE
OMG I love this book!
I will not lie to you, I am a big fan of Susan Dennard, and when I saw the email from NetGalley letting me know my request had been accepted I was beyond e... READ MORE
90’s Nancy Drew-esque murder mystery
I am SO glad that I was gifted an ARC of this through NetGalley. A YA paranormal mystery that starts out as a rival high school prank war and turns into a ... READ MORE
Slow start, very fun and action packed for the rest!
This started very slow, and very light hearted. Yes there was a murder, but despite this the first 30% focused on teenage pranking rather than anything da... READ MORE
90s paranormal mystery
The Executioners Three is a gripping paranormal mystery set in a delightfully eerie small town during the 1990s. It follows high school senior and amateur ... READ MORE
90s nostalgia mixed with YA supernatural suspense
The Executioners Three is a fast paced YA supernatural mystery. Think Stranger Things, Buffy, Teen Wolf! If you have read any Susan Dennard before it reall... READ MORE
Nostalgic spooky mystery
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review an advanced copy of this book, my opinions are my own.
So this was a very f... READ MORE
A lot for YA readers
There’s a lot in here to suit most YA readers: high school rivalry, love across the divide, dark curses, murder mystery, spunky female hero, and a spooky s... READ MORE
YA high school drama meets spooky murder mystery
The Executioners Three is a murder mystery with lots of fun YA high school drama vibes and the same eerie spooky atmosphere present in the author's previou... READ MORE
Spooky nostalgic read
I love Susan dennard books, the luminaries series was great so I was so excited to read another world she had created and I was not disappointed!
I loved... READ MORE
Spine-tingling nostalgia and small-town secrets, with a dash of X-Files charm
The Executioner’s Three is a deliciously eerie cocktail of '90s nostalgia, teenage sleuthing, and supernatural menace.
Freddie Gellar makes a wonderfully ... READ MORE
Fun Fall Horror!
This book does a great job of combining humor and horror for a fun (and creepy) otherworldly experience in a little town lucky enough to have its own curse... READ MORE
Love, love, love!
If you want a spooky, fall vibes, Nancy Drew inspired fun read, then this one is it! Susan Dennard is the master of mixing the real with the superstition, ... READ MORE
Absolutely loved the nostalgia!
This has become one of my favorite reads. It takes me back to spooky fun of the 90s and I inhaled this book!
It is well written, the characters are fun... READ MORE
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Nancy Drew
I'm too much of a scaredycat to be a horror-reader, but I am a Susan Dennard-reader, so I went into this with medium expectations - assuming I'd have a goo... READ MORE
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Cute, cozy and creepy
4.5/5
I wholly adored this book! It was an absolute blast! I honestly laughed out loud multiple times! It’s giving ‘Stranger Things’, early seasons of ‘... READ MORE
Feel-good, autumnal read
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The Executioners Three was such a feel-good, autumnal read - absolutely perfect for a cosy Sunday afternoon. The atmosphere instantly took me... READ MORE
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5/5, full stars, an amazing book! I feel like this was perfect for me - I was about the same age as Freddie in 1999 (when the book is set), my birthday is ... READ MORE
90s shoved in your face cringy when you where actually there
Thanks NetGalley and Daphne Press for this arc for an honest opinion.
Unfortunately I really disliked this book it was clunky repetitive and very hard t... READ MORE
Perfect mix of spooky and cosy vibes
If you are looking for the perfect autumnal read, look no further!
This book was so much more than I had anticipated! I came for the small town murder m... READ MORE
Enjoyed!
I received an ARC of this - thank you NetGalley and the publishers
m going to be honest, I did struggle to get into the book initially BUT I don't actual... READ MORE
Entertaining read with great 1990s vibes and a creepy curse...
This is less like Dennard’s Witchlands series, having far more in common with her YA dark fantasy adventure series, The Luminaries. A teenage girl, who is ... READ MORE
Utterly terrible
I was so excited for this and it had such great potential. But it was terrible and I never want to hear the word Gelegenheit or whatever it was again.
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