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The One I Left Behind

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Zusatztext "Haunting and harrowing! The One I Left Behind offers enthralling suspense but also so much more: a richly poignant tale of the families we're born into and the ones we build ourselves." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext From the New York Times bestselling author of Burntown  and Promise Not to Tell  comes a gut-wrenching thriller about a missing mother and the serial killer who returns twenty-five years later The summer of 1985 changes Reggie’s life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the police department steps and, five days later, displays their bodies around town. Just when Reggie needs her mother, Vera, the most, Vera’s hand is found on the steps. But after five days, there’s no body and Neptune disappears. Now, twenty-five years later, Reggie is a successful architect who has left her hometown and the horrific memories of that summer behind. But when she gets a call revealing that her mother has been found alive, Reggie must confront the ghosts of her past and find Neptune before he kills again. Zusammenfassung “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, she finds herself mixed up with her school’s outcasts—Charlie, the local detective’s son, and Tara, a goth kid who has a mental hold over Reggie and harbors a dark secret. That same summer a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the police department steps and, five days later, displays their bodies around town. Just when Reggie needs her mother Vera—an ex-model with many “boyfriends” and a thirst for gin—the most, Vera’s hand is found on the steps. But after five days, there’s no body and Neptune disappears. Now a successful architect who left her hometown behind after that horrific summer, Reggie doesn’t trust anyone and lives with few attachments. But when she gets a call from a homeless shelter saying that her mother has been found alive, Reggie must confront the ghosts of her past and find Neptune before he kills again. With her signature style, Jennifer McMahon portrays the dark side of adolescent friendship and introduces characters who haunt the imagination, along with a disturbing web of secrets, betrayals, and murder. ...

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Authors Jennifer McMahon
Publisher William Morrow
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 02.01.2013
 
EAN 9780062122551
ISBN 978-0-06-212255-1
No. of pages 432
Dimensions 136 mm x 204 mm x 26 mm
Subjects Fiction > Suspense

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Horror, FICTION: Friendship

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