New York Times bestselling author
returns to our shop

Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of Island of Lost Girls, will talk about her new book Dismantled on Saturday, June 27 at 3 p.m. at Mystery on Main Street.

Dismantled recently received a starred review from Publishers' Weekly. Beautifully written with an unsettling undercurrent and myriad twists, Dismantled is the perfect summer read from the author of Promise Not to Tell and Island of Lost Girls.

In Dismantled, Henry, Tess, Winnie and Suz banded together in college to form the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto – "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart" – these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism, and plotting elaborate, sometimes dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz’s death and the others decide to cover it up.

Nearly a decade later, the past isn’t ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide – apparently triggered by a mysterious postcard – it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf an entire family. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Is it possible that Suz did not really die – or has she somehow found a way back?

Dismantled is dark and twisted and dangerous. This ghost-in-the-woods story will keep you up nights and keep you guessing. The June 27th event will begin at 3 p.m. Jennifer will read excerpts from Dismantled. As always, if you would like a signed copy and cannot attend, give us a call and we will arrange one for you.

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