Lois Duncan has passed away

(cross-posted from Read YA Lit)

RIP Lois Duncan, 1934-2016. I just heard about her yesterday (she died June 15th).

If you read creepy books meant for teenagers in the 70s and 80s (and you were a girl, probably), you remember Lois Duncan. She wrote some amazing things. Even non-readers might recognize the title I know What You Did Last Summer which got turned into a movie much later.

http://jezebel.com/rip-lois-duncan-prolific-author-of-juicy-death-novels-1782104...

This is sad. I loved her books as a teen.

I know, I used to love her stuff. I read all of them (at the time, turns out there was one last one after I had moved on to science fiction). I was always intrigued by the logistics of the eternally young in Locked in Time - having to move away and then back, claiming to be the next generation. Might have also been my first exposure to a kind of Southern Gothic lite.

Locked in time was the first of her books that I read, and it remained one of my favourites. I didn't read all of them because some weren't published in the UK, or not when I was at the age to read them. I wish I'd kept my copies!