The Night Sister

Zusatztext “Chilling…. A powerful story of childhood friendship and sisterhood…. Dark and compelling.” — BookPage  “McMahon  manages to turn Vermont’s verdant! picturesque scenery into the backdrop for some truly unnerving plots…. [and] such issues as sibling rivalry! forgiveness! family legacies and unconditional love.” — Bookreporter   “A modern-day Grimm’s tale.” — Curled Up With a Good Book Praise for Jennifer McMahon and The Winter People    “One of the year’s most chilling novels . . . melds the mystery genre with the supernatural for a psychological thriller that’s as scary as it is enthralling.” —The Miami Herald     “Crisp! mysterious and scary. . . . Reminiscent of Stephen King.” — USA Today     “McMahon has developed a subgenre of psychological mysteries . . . in creepily seductive settings.” — Booklist (starred review)     “Gives readers just want they want from a good thriller: can’t-put-it-down! stay-up-until-dawn reading.” — Bookpage     “McMahon’s gift is the deliciously twisty way she subverts all of your expectations! keeping you guessing with wry wit and feverish chills.” — People      “A hauntingly beautiful read.” —Oprah.com  Informationen zum Autor JENNIFER McMAHON is the author of six novels, including the  New York Times  best-sellers  Promise Not to Tell  and  The Winter People . She graduated from Goddard College and studied poetry in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College. Klappentext From the New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon (The Winter People) comes an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets. The Tower Motel was once a thriving attraction of rural Vermont. Today it lies in disrepair, alive only in the memories of the three women-Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot-who played there as children. They loved exploring the abandoned rooms … until the day their innocent games uncovered something dark and twisted that ruined their friendship forever. Now, Amy stands accused of committing a horrific crime, and the only hint to her motives is a hasty message that forces Piper and Margot to revisit the motel's past, and the fate of two sisters who lived there in its heyday. Sylvie Slater had dreams of running off to Hollywood and becoming Alfred Hitchcock's leading lady, while her little sister, Rose, was content with their simple life. Each believed the other to be something truly monstrous, but only one knows the secret that will haunt the generations to come.  Amy    Amy’s heart hammers, and her skin is slick with sweat. Focus , she tells herself.  Don’t think about the thing in the tower.   Amy knows that if she thinks too hard about it, she won’t be able to do what needs to be done.  She looks down at the photo, the old black-and-white print she’s kept for almost thirty years, hidden away in the drawer of her bedside table.  It’s been handled so much that it’s cracked and faded, one of the corners torn.               In it, her mother, Rose, and her Aunt Sylvie are young girls, wearing crisp summer dresses as they stand in front of a sign that says World Famous London Chicken Circus .  Each girl clutches a worried-looking hen, but that’s where the similarities end. Amy’s mother is wearing a scowl beneath tired eyes, her hair dark and unkempt, while Sylvie is radiant, the one who was going to grow up and go to Hollywood. Her blond hair is movie-star perfect, her eyes shining. Someone had scrawled a date on the back: June, 1955. If only Amy could travel back in time, talk to those two girls, warn them what was coming.  Warn them that one day, it would all lead to t...

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Chilling . A powerful story of childhood friendship and sisterhood . Dark and compelling. BookPage 

McMahon  manages to turn Vermont s verdant, picturesque scenery into the backdrop for some truly unnerving plots . [and] such issues as sibling rivalry, forgiveness, family legacies and unconditional love. Bookreporter
 
A modern-day Grimm s tale. Curled Up With a Good Book

Praise for Jennifer McMahon and The Winter People 

 
One of the year s most chilling novels . . . melds the mystery genre with the supernatural for a psychological thriller that s as scary as it is enthralling. The Miami Herald
 
 
Crisp, mysterious and scary. . . . Reminiscent of Stephen King. USA Today
 
 
McMahon has developed a subgenre of psychological mysteries . . . in creepily seductive settings. Booklist (starred review)
 
 
Gives readers just want they want from a good thriller: can t-put-it-down, stay-up-until-dawn reading. Bookpage
 
 
McMahon s gift is the deliciously twisty way she subverts all of your expectations, keeping you guessing with wry wit and feverish chills. People
 
 
  A hauntingly beautiful read. Oprah.com 

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer McMahon
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.03.2016
• EAN: 9780804169974
• ISBN: 978-0-8041-6997-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Anchor Books
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense