Promise Not to Tell, Jennifer McMahon
Promise Not to Tell, Jennifer McMahon
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Promise Not to Tell
A Novel

Author: Jennifer McMahon

Narrator: Karen White, Kathleen McInerney, Caitlin Davies

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/29/2016


Synopsis

A woman’s past and present collide with unexpected results in this hauntingly beautiful debut novel set in rural Vermont.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 in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because nothing is quite what it seems . . . and the grim specters of her youth are far from forgotten.More than just a murder mystery, Jennifer McMahon’s extraordinary debut novel, Promise Not to Tell, is a story of friendship and family, devotion and betrayal—tautly written, deeply insightful, beautifully evocative, and utterly unforgettable.

About Jennifer McMahon

Jennifer McMahon is the author of Dismantled, the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, and the breakout debut novel Promise Not to Tell. She lives in Vermont with her partner, Drea, and their daughter, Zella.

About Karen White

Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellis

This could have been a nicely written, kind of creepy ghost story, but everytime someone referenced 'the Potato Girl' in some menacing way, it made me laugh. There's nothing scary about potatoes or their ghostly girls, I'm sorry. The story has more plot holes than fishnet stockings (thanks Emily!!);......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

Meh. This story didn't quite hit the right note for a thriller, a ghost story, or a psychological drama for me. It started out with a thriller beginning, and then failed to follow up on it. Then there was a large chunk that was about growing up poor with an undesirable best friend, and also about mo......more

Goodreads review by Karine

As I am enamoured with Children on the Hill, I put all the former McMahon books as tbr and presto! What I can say is this: the author has made a whole lot of progress over 9 books as this debut was decent but it couldn’t grab me. The ghost story aspect just didn’t work out. The writing is ok and the c......more