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Feb 11, 2014 · The Winter People. Jennifer McMahon. 3.82. 76,537 ratings10,196 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Horror (2014) West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends.
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Feb 11, 2014 · FICTION. THE WINTER PEOPLE. by Jennifer McMahon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 11, 2014. Although she writes flawless prose, McMahon’s characters’ improbable choices derail her story. bookshelf. shop now. A peaceful Vermont village turns creepy in this tale of the dead returning to life.
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"Winter People" is based on a novel by John Ehle, but it's almost as if the novel was chosen because it provided an outline for a movie that would try to duplicate the unique success of "Witness." Consider: "Winter People" stars McGillis as a woman who lives by herself in an isolated community of mountain people.
Book Summary. A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
—The New York Times Book Review “An edge-of-your-seat scary ghost story. . . . I will never look at the woods behind my home in the same way again!” —Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence “Not a book to be read late at night, or in a creaky old house, The Winter People is a literary thriller to
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Review by Kathryn Johnson. Literary thriller, ghost story, disturbing tale of family bonds and dark deeds, historical novel – all of these apply to McMahon’s latest chilling novel. Katherine and her photographer husband, Gary, are struggling to come to terms with the loss of their only child.
Feb 11, 2014 · Reviewed by Norah Piehl on February 21, 2014. The Winter People. by Jennifer McMahon. Publication Date: February 11, 2014. Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense, Thriller. Hardcover: 336 pages. Publisher: Doubleday. ISBN-10: 0385538499. ISBN-13: 9780385538497.
