![]() ![]() Subscribe today and save up to 35 percent off the regular subscription rate. New readers have a backlist to explore! -Frances Thorsen, Chronicles of Crime Bookshop, Victoria, BC This review was published in Library Journal' s issue. You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of parental sacrifice, furtive desire, and the staggering force of ambition. ![]() VERDICT Admirers of Patricia Highsmith, Laura Lippman, and Kimberly Pauley ( Ask Me) are in for a treat. You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott available in Mass Market on, also read synopsis and reviews. In true Abbott style, nothing is predictable here the plot consistently confounds expectations with its clever twists and turns. Abbott was a staff writer on HBO’s The Deuce and co-creator of the USA Network series Dare Me. She received her PhD in literature from New York University. ![]() Trying to keep her daughter’s dream alive at any cost, Katie is as much a focus of this story as Devon. Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, and The End of Everything. Her mother, Katie, goes into protective mode and attempts to salvage her family from ugly rumors involving her husband and questions about the boy’s tragic end. Immersed in her life as an Olympic hopeful, 15-year-old Devon Knox is in a tailspin. ![]() F This latest novel from Abbott (after The Fever) centers on a young man’s hit-and-run death shortly before a major gymnastics competition, ripping apart that sport’s close-knit community. ![]()
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