Shortly after its publication, Duncan's 18-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, was fatally shot twice in the head while driving. In 1989, Duncan published Don't Look Behind You, a novel about a family thrust into the witness-protection program after the father testifies against a drug dealer. Stranger With My Face (1981) involved an evil twin seeking to possess her sister's body through astral projection. Summer of Fear (1976), about a teenage girl and her strange cousin, dipped its toe in witchcraft. In Down a Dark Hall (1974), Duncan ventured into the supernatural, setting the story at a haunted boarding school for girls. I Know What You Did Last Summer, published in 1973, centres on four teenagers who accidentally kill a young bicyclist and leave the scene, vowing to keep the incident a secret even as their sense of guilt – and a mysterious menace professing to know what they had done – becomes increasingly frightening. Duncan was credited with helping establish the genre of young-adult fiction – literature carefully tailored for readers who are neither children nor grown-ups, who know more than it may seem but not enough to make their way in the world.ĭuncan plucked her characters from normalcy and placed them in extraordinary, often dark circumstances.
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