Jennifer McMahon is an American author who is best known as the author of The Winter People and The One I Left Behind.

McMahon graduated from Goddard College in 1991 with a BA and then later headed to the Writing Program at Vermont College where she studied poetry for a year in the MFA program. McMahon would end up back in Vermont where she held multiple jobs including pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness; before quitting in 2000 to work full time on writing.

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Promise Not to Tell(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Island of Lost Girls(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Tiki Girl(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dismantled(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Girl in the Woods(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Don't Breathe a Word(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The One I Left Behind(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Winter People(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Night Sister(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Burntown(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Invited(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Drowning Kind(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Children on the Hill(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Darling Girl(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Dark Corners Books

Hannah-Beast(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sleep Tight Motel (By: Lisa Unger)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed (By: Edgar Cantero)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Miao Dao (By: Joyce Carol Oates)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tangled Woods (By: Emily Raboteau)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Remedy (By: Adam Haslett)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Oak Avenue (By: Brandi Reeds)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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If You Like Jennifer McMahon Books, You’ll Love…

The One I Left Behind: A Novel is one of Jennifer McMahon’s most popular books. The book tells us of the summer of 1985, the summer that changed Reggie’s life. She was an awkard girl, aged thirteen, in that summer who is finding her place among the school’s outcasts. During the same summer, a serial killer is haunting the town and leaving severed hands behind as trophies. Reggie is going through a lot this summer, but her whole world is rocked when her mother’s hand is found. No body ever appeared and the serial killer called Neptune stopped appearing. Twenty-five years later, Reggie is an architect who gets a disturbing call: her mother is alive.

Another popular book by McMahon is The Winter People. The town of West Hall, Vermont is one of those twos filled with legends and strange disappearances throughout its history. One of the most mysterious is from 1908 when Sara Harrison Shea was found dead in the field behind her house after the death of her daughter. In the present day, Ruthie lives in that same house with her mother and sister. History repeats itself when Ruthie’s mother disappears one day. Ruthie discovers Sara Harrison Shea’s diary and finds that history is repeating itself, but only she can stop it.

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