"Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. 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 dirt-poor friend Del—shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"—was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because nothing is quite what it seems . . . and the grim specters of her youth are far from forgotten."

Wishlist book! Found at the Indy library sale.

Kate, who grew up somewhat unconventionally in a teepee within a small hippie-type community in rural Vermont, lives with the haunting memory of the unsolved murder of a childhood friend. Now, years later she returns to Vermont to attend to her aging mother, who has developed Alzheimer's. But shortly after arriving, another young girl is found murdered, the details of which are eerily similar to those that occurred when Kate's friend was killed all those years ago.

McMahon has written several novels within the past 10+ years, but this was her debut. It's a fairly quick, easy read -- a thriller with a little bit of supernatural woven through. It was enjoyable enough, though I guessed the "whodunnit" fairly early, which I'm typically embarrassingly not known for. I've got most of her other novels on my TBR stack, and I did enjoy this one enough to want to read her others.

Dropped off in Columbian Park's Little Free Library.

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