Promise not to tell : a novel / Jennifer McMahon.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0061143316
- ISBN: 9780061143311
- ISBN: 0062560409
- ISBN: 9780062560407
- Physical Description: 250 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Harper, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
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- Subject:
- Nurses > Fiction.
Alzheimer's disease > Fiction.
Vermont > Fiction. - Genre:
- Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Available copies
- 22 of 22 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC MCMAHON (Text) | 36015000315727 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F MCM (Text) | 50503011135391 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | F MCMAHON (Text) | 31781064137787 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Denton Public Library | F M (Text) | 25908005104455 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | F MCM (Text) | 0020507203303 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Graham County Library | F PBK MCM (Text) | 80605001326452 | Adult Fiction Paperback | Available | - |
| Hudson (Fontana) | F MCMAHON (Text) | 39493106012109 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kill Devil Hills Library | F MCM (Text) | 39488500765112 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| King Public Library | F MCMAHON (Text) | 30094100209680 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Manteo Library | F MCM (Text) | 39488300710383 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
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.
