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Buy Promise Not to Tell: A Novel by Jennifer Mcmahon available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Jennifer Mcmahon
| | List Price: | $13.95 | | Price: | $11.16 | | You Save: | $2.79 (20%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 6141 | | Studio: | Harper Paperbacks | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 256 | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2007 | | Publisher: | Harper Paperbacks |
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Product Description
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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 62 reviews)
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Great! 
I read a review for this in people magazine and was very excited when I saw it at Sam's club one day...
I too read this in two sittings...would have been one but by two o'clock in the morning I just couldn't keep going ;)
I went to the store before I had even finished it and bought her other book...
I will say though that for the first time ever I found something cheaper in the store than on amazon...This book was only $6.41 at Sam's Club.
June 20, 2008 | |
I can't believe she went there! 
I'm afraid of the dark. Or, more exactly, I'm afraid of what could be in the dark: ghosts and goblins and boogy-men. This book promised to be full of those irrational fears, based on the summary. Though I'm afraid of the dark, and all it could contain, I know that the fear isn't rational. I began reading this book expecting to work through those crazy ideas but, ultimately, end with a reasonable explanation. Boy, was I wrong. Those irrational concepts became more and more solid until the supernatural was all-pervasive. I can't believe the author went there! And that's where she lost me: just because I'm afraid of ghosts doesn't mean that they are real. In a book, seemingly set in reality, she veers off into the wacky. She turned, what I expected to be, a quirky mystery into a loopy romp with ghosts. There are no reasonable explanations to be found anywhere. Instead there were mysterious pictures, crazy visions and possession. In this book it doesn't need to be dark to have ghosts and boogy-men coming out to haunt. If you have a single foot grounded in reality you may want to avoid this one. I promise not to tell anyone to read this.
June 11, 2008 | |
Page turner 
This book was a page turner to the end. The truth was revealed in the final pages and I couldn't wait to get there. At times, it was heartfelt, but mostly was intriguing right to the final paragraph.
March 31, 2008 | |
Unique, Engaging and Thought Provoking
This book is very well written. The story explores emotional growth and lifestyle experimentation, but its main focus is criminal mystery. Most everybody can relate to the characters either by their own personal experiences or by having met similar individuals in their lifetime. I anxiously await other fictional works by this author; if they are as good as this - she may become my favorite author.
March 30, 2008 | |
A captivating Read
Tantalizing characters that will have you thinking about your childhood, and an interesting plot line, which delves, but not too deeply, into the supernatural make for a good and entertaining read with Jennifer McMahon's Promise Not to Tell.
March 10, 2008 | |
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