The Night Sister

By Jennifer McMahon,

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From the New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon (The Winter People) comes an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets.

The Tower Motel was once a thriving attraction of rural Vermont. Today it lies in disrepair, alive only in…

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My first experience reading a book with dual storylines, this novel held me spellbound cover to cover. McMahon has since become an auto-buy author for me, thanks to this fantastical story that puts a magnifying glass on the life of two sisters, a childhood friend, and an unexplained disappearance. The story moves between past and present and revolves around the Tower Motel in Vermont, now a ruined shell that refuses to yield its secrets. Secrets the girls discovered while playing games there as children. 

An unexpected splash of the paranormal and the use of letters from one sister to Mr.…

I picked this up for a dollar at a thrift shop years ago. I took it to the bath with me, intending to just read the first chapter. I'd never heard of it, nor the author, and I don't typically buy books I haven't read. Before I knew it, I'd been in the tub for two hours and I was past the halfway mark of this novel. I got out, freezing cold, with pruney toes and blue lips, scared to stop reading and scared to keep reading. I kept thinking, "Ah-ha! I got it! I know where this is going!"…

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