Jennifer McMahon
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"One of the brightest new stars of literary suspense."
—Los Angeles Times
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon is back with a gut-wrenching mystery about an architect whose troubled mother has been found 25 years after being kidnapped—by a killer who is still on the loose
The summer of 1985 changed Reggie's life. Thirteen, awkward, and without a father,
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2014
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English
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In West Hall, Vermont, some secrets never die.... In 1908 Sara Harrison Shea was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. When Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a trace, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the...
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2023.
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"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and...
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2021.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Sister comes a new work of psychological horror about a therapist who returns to the old family home after her sister drowns in its swimming pool, where she discovers that it has something sinister lurking beneath its surface"--
When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, she assumes that Lexie is having another series of episodes. Manic and increasingly out of...
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On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Her little brother, Sam, has grown up to be a levelheaded man who is still convinced that Lisa was abducted by a predator. When his girlfriend, Phoebe, receives a phone...
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Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered-a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del-shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"-was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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The latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon is an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets.
Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls...
Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls...
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2022.
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English
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"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris-silent,...
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, Jennifer McMahon returns with Dismantled-a stunning and chilling thriller that further burnishes her reputation as one of the brightest new stars of literary suspense. Expect comparisons to The Secret History. Readers of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones will not be able to shake this breathtaking tale of the dark consequences of a group of college friends'...
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While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing child: her best friend, Lizzy, who vanished...
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A young woman travels to the magical past and present of Ireland in this complete fantasy romance series from bestselling author.
Bohermore (Book 1)
Eighteen-year-old Maeve O'Malley is a recent high school graduate who should be thinking about college. Instead she's stalked in her dreams by the very pirate queen who killed her mother years ago. She decides to ditch college and head to Ireland to search for answers. Soon she finds help from an attractive,...
12) Bohermore
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A young woman discovers an ancient curse in her Irish family history in this "excellent debut" paranormal adventure by the USA Today bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Eighteen-year-old Maeve O'Malley can't exactly focus on college when she's plagued by visions of the long-dead pirate queen who killed her mother. Now that the spirit is coming for her, Maeve has no choice but to ditch her campus in Boston and head to the west coast...
13) Inish Clare
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A young woman must risk everything to protect the legacy of her ancient Irish clan in this paranormal adventure by the author.
Haunted by visions of the notorious pirate queen, Maeve O'Malley first came to Galway to end an ancient family curse. But those tormented waking dreams also led her to the secrets of her clan, and its ancestral lands filled with hidden treasures. Now she must return to Ireland with the medieval relics that prove her claim....
14) Ballycroy
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USA Today-Bestselling Author: A woman journeys through time to medieval Ireland and finds forbidden love as tension rises between clans...
Pursued by Ireland's notorious pirate queen, Maeve O'Malley is on a quest to Ireland's medieval past to save the future of her clan and break her ancient family curse. Learning to use her haunting visions to travel to medieval Ireland leads Maeve on the adventure of a lifetime-or centuries of lifetimes. She is...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it's too late... In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter....
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In Ashford, Vermont--aka "Burntown"--Eva "Necco" Sandeski's mother dies under mysterious circumstances and her boyfriend is murdered, leading Necco to believe that her mother was right about her deceased father's questionable past as a secretive inventor.