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“[Abbott’s] taut, unsettling writing creates tension through the slightest actions and phrases…This is clever, chilling psychological suspense at its best.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
“Pulsing with suspense.”
— People“An excavation of the dark sides of family and femininity.”
— Elle“[A] taut, suspenseful novel that’s anxiety provoking in the best way.”
— Vogue“You feel the characters’ aches and pains in your joints, your feet, and, most dangerous of all, your heart.”
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Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award–winning author of several novels and nonfiction and the 2019 recipient of the Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work. Her novel The Fever won the International Thriller Writers Award and Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was chosen one of the best books of the year by Amazon, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the London Guardian, among others. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. She received her PhD in English and American literature from New York University. She is a staff writer on HBO’s David Simon show, The Deuce.
Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.