Possession Island, Sarah McCarry
Possession Island, Sarah McCarry
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Possession Island
A Novel

Author: Sarah McCarry

Narrator: Gail Shalan, Renata Friedman, Taylor Harvey

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2026


Synopsis

Women bite back in this queer gothic thriller, perfect for fans of Interview with the Vampire and Plain Bad Heroines.

It wasn't easy for Angela Bell growing up on Possession Island, the remote Pacific Northwest setting of her late mother's wildly popular vampire novel. When she returns home from college and her estranged best friend, Mo, is murdered, she's forced to reckon with yet another loss—and finds herself in the crosshairs of the bungled police investigation.

Sally Raleigh has longed to leave the island for years, but she's trapped by her father's declining health and her devotion to her charismatic twin brother Adrian. The last thing she needs is her high-school nemesis Angela back in town. But Sally is also devastated by Mo's death, and finds herself forging an unlikely alliance with her former enemy to find Mo's killer.

As Angie and Sally delve deeper into the island's sinister underbelly, they must confront just how far they're willing to go to protect the people they love. And they'll soon find that the secrets they've been keeping from each other won't stay buried for long...

About Sarah McCarry

Sarah McCarry is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs, Dirty Wings, and About a Girl.

About Gail Shalan

Gail Shalan (she/her) is a New York City-based storyteller on screen, stage, behind the mic, and with puppets.A 2024 two-time Audie Award winner (Best Young Adult and Best Middle Grade), as well as a multiple Earphones Award winner, praised by The New York Times, Library Journal, Vulture Magazine, Booklist, and Audiofile, she’s narrated 200+ titles.Gail has performed on stage at The Bristol Old Vic, Cherry Lane Theatre, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and other various theater spaces across the US and UK.Her work as both an actor and a puppeteer was featured in the award-winning short film Coyote Girl (BostonIFF Best Short).Known for her dexterity with character and dialects, her tangibly emotional reads, and her deep respect for the text, Gail is passionate about stories that center generational healing and mental health, that navigate the sticky spaces between childhood and adulthood, and stories that ask who am “I”? Who are “we”? And what swells in the space between us, what dwells in the space within us? For that’s where the greatest discoveries and curiosities lie.


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Quotes

”McCarry delivers a dazzling whodunit...a sharp, entertaining mystery with personality to spare.“ —Publishers Weekly

“Sarah McCarry is an incisive and lyrical writer whose fascinating, atmospheric stories are always a shocking delight. I can’t wait to see what she does next.” —Tahereh Mafi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series and This Woven Kingdom series

“Possession Island is as wickedly sly and sharp as a vampire's bite. I basically cleared my calendar to read this fabulous novel, and you'll want to do the same.” —Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians

“Sharp, dark, and wickedly funny with a killer voice and mesmerizing prose, McCarry has crafted...a taut gothic thriller. (I've already recommended it to every lesbian I know.) It's just so good.” —Meredith Adamo, Morris Award-winning author of Not Like Other Girls

“This is the most fun reading I have had a long time. Sarah McCarry has written a gorgeous, haunting novel that meditates on how desire both corrupts and heals. It’s exquisite. Thoughtful, well-written, and propulsive.” —Grace Byron, author of Herculine