- Promise Not to Tell
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name = Promise Not to Tell
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author =Jennifer McMahon
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cover_artist =Jock Sturges
country = United States of America
language = English
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genre = mystery, horror, psychological
publisher =HarperCollins
pub_date = April 2007
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media_type = paperback
pages = 256
isbn = 978-0061143311
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followed_by ="Promise Not to Tell" is a mystery novel with
supernatural elements written byVermont authorJennifer McMahon , released April 2007 in the US by Harper Paperbacks (an imprint ofHarperCollins ). It was released in Germany byRowohlt Verlag, under the title "Das Madchen Im Wald" (The Girl in the Woods), in October 2007. It will be released in the United Kingdom byOrion Books in 2008.The novel alternates between 2002 and 1971, and tells the story of Kate Cypher, a 41-year-old school nurse who returns to the Vermont
hippie commune where she grew up to care for her aging mother, who is afflicted withAlzheimer's disease . Her first night home, a murder takes place behind her mother's cabin -- the killing is identical to that of Kate's childhood friend, Del Griswold, in 1971. Del was a scrappy outcast in life, shunned and taunted as "Potato Girl," and since her unsolved murder, she has become something of a local legend, supposedly tormenting the townsfolk from beyond the grave. Kate never revealed her close relationship to Del, before or after her death, unable to stand up to those who pitied or reviled Del. Kate is drawn into the investigation of the modern-day crime, and must revisit the original murder, and her culpability in it.
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