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  • Published: 19 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781101971857
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99

Burntown

A Novel



The New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and Promise Not to Tell returns with a riveting thriller in which an unresolved murder haunts a family for generations, forcing one daughter into a life of hiding and concealed identity to escape a deadly threat.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People comes a novel of edge-of-your-seat suspense starring a group of misfits trying to outsmart a killer in small-town Vermont.

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 begins to unfurl with classic Jennifer McMahon twists and turns.

  • Published: 19 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781101971857
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Jennifer McMahon

JENNIFER MCMAHON is the author of six novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell. She graduated from Goddard College and studied poetry in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College. She currently lives with her partner and daughter in Montpelier, Vermont.

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Praise for Burntown

Praise for Burntown:

  • "McMahon's latest is bar-raising. . . . A stunning genre blend of thriller and fantasy." --Booklist (starred review)

  • "McMahon swoops readers off to a setting straight out of a modern, but much starker, Grimm's fairy tale." --KirkusReviews