Jennifer McMahon Bücher

Durch einen grausamen Mord verliert Sara ihre kleine Tochter Gertie. Ein Brief mit einem uralten Geheimnis hilft ihr, Gertie von den Toten zurückzuholen - für sieben Tage, in denen sie von ihrem geliebten Kind Abschied nehmen kann. Doch sie ahnt nicht, worauf sie sich einlässt. Denn manchmal finden die Toten nicht zurück. Und das Grauen hält Einzug in die Wälder von Vermont ...

Und niemand hört ihr Rufen … An einem schönen Sommertag wird in Pike’s Crossing die sechsjährige Ernestine entführt. Die einzige Zeugin sieht untätig zu: Rhonda Farr glaubt, die Kleine kenne den Mann gut. Umso größer ist der Schock, als sie vom Kidnapping erfährt. Rhonda sieht sich an das traumatischste Erlebnis ihrer Kindheit erinnert – den Tag, an dem ihre beste Freundin Lizzy verschwand. Schuldbewusst setzt sie alles daran, Ernestine zu finden. Dabei rührt sie an ein Geheimnis, das besser unentdeckt geblieben wäre … «Hochspannung wie in McMahons Debüt ‹Das Mädchen im Wald›.» KIRKUS REVIEWS

Dreizehn Jahre alt war Reggie, als die Serie begann. Ein brutaler Killer namens Neptun entführte Frauen, hinterließ ihre Hände auf den Stufen der Polizeistation und sorgte dafür, dass man fünf Tage später ihre Leichen fand. Reggies Mutter Vera war sein letztes Opfer. Doch ihre Leiche wurde nie gefunden. Jahre später bekommt Reggie, inzwischen eine erfolgreiche Architektin, einen Anruf aus einem Obdachlosenheim. Eine Frau, die dort lebt, behauptet, Vera zu sein. Reggie muss sich den Dämonen der Vergangenheit stellen, denn nun liegt die abgetrennte Hand einer alten Freundin Reggies vor der Polizeistation.

Tief im Wald hört dich keiner schreien. Nach über zwanzig Jahren kehrt Kate Cypher zum ersten Mal in ihr Heimatdorf in Massachusetts zurück. Kurz darauf geschieht ein Mord an einem jungen Mädchen. Die Umstände der Tat alarmieren Kate: sie erinnern an den Tod ihrer besten Freundin Del. Ist der Mörder von damals noch auf freiem Fuß? Hat man den Falschen für die grausame Tat büßen lassen? Kate nimmt die Spur des Täters auf, bald merkt sie, dass sie nicht die Einzige ist. Und im Dorf glaubt man schon lange, dass es Del ist, die Rache für ihren Tod fordert …

Fünf College-Studenten, vereint durch ihre Leidenschaft für Kunst und einer Philosophie der Zerstörung, geraten mit ihren Experimenten in Schwierigkeiten. Nach dem Tod einer Kommilitonin schließen sie einen Pakt des Schweigens, während jemand ihr Geheimnis kennt. Ein fesselnder Thriller, der mit „Die geheime Geschichte“ vergleichbar ist.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. • "One of the year's most chilling novels." —The Miami Herald West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she’s not the only person looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.

"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris-silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral-does not behave like a normal girl. Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up ways to defeat them. Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere. 2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She's determined to hunt it down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real-and one of them is her very own sister. A haunting, vividly suspenseful page-turner from the "literary descendant of Shirley Jackson" (Chris Bohjalian, author of The Flight Attendant), The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all"-- Provided by publisher

"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Sister comes a ... work of psychological horror about a therapist who returns to the old family home after her sister drowns in its swimming pool, where she discovers that it has something sinister lurking beneath its surface"--

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one. . . . In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house--a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse--objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously. As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.

INTERNATIONAL THRILLER AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR On the surface, Ashford, Vermont, seems like a quaint New England college town, but to those who live among the shadowy remains of its abandoned mills and factories and beneath its towering steel bridges, it's known as Burntown. Eva Sandeski, who goes by the name Necco on the street, has been a part of Burntown's underworld for years, ever since the night her father, Miles, drowned in a flood that left her and her mother, Lily, homeless. Now, on the run from a man called Snake Eyes, Necco must rely on other Burntown outsiders to survive. As the lives of these misfits intersect, and as the killer from the Sandeski family's past draws ever closer, a story of edge-of-your-seat suspense begins to unfurl with classic Jennifer McMahon twists and turns.