In "Beth Is Dead," a modern reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Beth, who hasn't returned home from a New Year's Eve party the night before, goes from missing to dead within the first ...

Katie Bernet reimagines the literary classic as a murder mystery. See the cover. Lovers of Little Women must always face some truisms — Beth will die; Jo will reject Laurie and choose the professor.

Debut author Katie Bernet puts a modern murder mystery spin on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women in her YA novel Beth Is Dead, the first release in a two-book deal with new S&S imprint Sarah Barley ...