Cinemystery: David Baldacci's The Finisher Optioned for Film

Last month we reported that crime novelist David Baldacci would write a fantasy thriller for middle grade readers.

Now we're learning that Sony Pictures has optioned the novel for film. Titled The Finisher, it will be published by Scholastic Press in March 2014.

The storyline is centered on fourteen-year-old Vega Jane, who lives in the village of Wormwood. Villagers have been told that there is nothing outside of Wormwood except for the Quag, a foul forest filled with terrifying beasts. No one comes, no one goes, and Wormwood has stayed this way for generations — until Vega's mentor Quentin Herms disappears. Quentin leaves Vega a secret message hinting that there's a way out of Wormwood, and something extraordinary on the other side. As Vega begins to investigate, she realizes that Wormwood is a village built on dangerous lies. And that powerful people are willing to kill in order to keep it that way.