Promise Not to Tell
by Jennifer McMahon
Book of the Month: August 2008
Kate Cypher has returned home to Vermont, after a telephone call from friends who are worried about her mother's failing health. 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 misfit friend Del, shunned and derided by her classmates as "the potato girl", was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, and Del achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories.
Now, as the new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying and unexpected ways. But nothing is quite what it seems - and the grim spectres of her childhood are far from forgotten.
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I read this book in a day, I just couldn't put it down, the one bad thing about it was that it wasn't long enough! Fantastic read, I wouln't normally have picked it up as I really don't think the cover does it justice, if it wasn't for the strapline at the top I probably wouldn't have even noticed it. Seriously, read it, you honestly won't want to stop.
Roona,Hampshire.
I had been struggling to find a book to hold my interest until I came across promise not to tell. The story is easy to follow which is always a bonus in the school holidays when you get constantly interrupted! The story itself is interesting and gripping and it made my heart race in fear in a few parts. The only problem I had with this book is that it wasnt long enough!!!
shanagh kay,harrogate.
i bought this book on saturday along with a couple of others (mainly due to the price lol yeah im cheap lol) i scanned the tv listings this morning and with nothing on and the rain throwing it down as it does during a normal british summer. the books id bought caught my eye, initially i picked it up thinking it was one of richard and judys summer reads, turns out it wasnt but it was a decent page turner, its not as good as some of the others ive read this week like "the cairo diary" or "down river" but it was just as gripping i sat for an hour this morning and fell through the first 50-60 pages and decided after lunch id read a few more, i slipped fell and accidentally read the whole thing and it was really enjoyable, well written and the people in the book while some are flat others were very believe-able, i liked how the chapters jumped though time allowing you to in effect read 2 storys at the same time while not loosing the plot of either
brent,yorkshire.
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