SOLVED. Likely a YA novel about the son of a serial killer... [s]

[Mima]

I will start with the fact that I read it in grade 10 English. It would have been 2000. Now that doesn't mean the book came out in 2000, we also read the third eye by Lois Duncan. I had thought the author was Lois Duncan but it doesn't appear to be that way.

The main thing I remember about the book is a quarry that highschool kids would hang out at. But there was one teenage boy and his female friend that I can remember. The boy was the son of a serial killer, who, if I remember correctly, burried the bodies in his back yard. His son was getting picked on and bullied because of his dad. They burned a cross or something on his front yard. He and the female friend eventually got close. He was sadly killed at the end of the book and I believe he was killed at the quarry.

It's vague, I know. I am sorry. The author is or was fairly popular and wrote a bunch of books in the same genre. But I can't remember their name!!!

[Jayde]

I haven't read it yet, but your description sounds a little like I Hunt Killers

[Teresa]

It's not I Hunt Killers--I'm currently reading that series and there's no quarry or bodies in the back yard. Publication date is also too late. I don't have any productive suggestions though :(

[N]

I'm not sure if all the pieces fit, but could it be Counterfeit Son by Alphin?

[Ayshe]

Maybe it's mentioned in these topics:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sarah]

Plague Year by Stephanie Tolan? Does the guy have a lazy eye and long hair?

The amazon summary is better than the goodreads one:

http://www.amazon.com/Plague-Year-Ste...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Giving this a bump since Gemini_84 posted recently.

[Ayshe]

Sarah's suggestion: Plague Year by Stephanie S. Tolan looks like a match.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Sounds good to me. Moving to Solved.

Turns out this was requested before, for the curious who like to know these things:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...