Dismantled A Novel
Dismantled A Novel by Jennifer McMahon, published by Harper Collins on June 16, 2009, is a chilling exploration of how the past can haunt the present. This 432-page fiction work follows a group of friends—Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz—who, after forming a group called the Compassionate Dismantlers in college, engage in acts of vandalism and dangerous pranks during a summer in a remote Vermont cabin. Their lives take a dark turn when a twisted experiment leads to Suz’s death, prompting them to cover it up and forever alter their relationships.
Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess struggle to move on from their shared guilt as eerie events unfold, triggered by a postcard linked to their past. The story delves into themes of friendship, guilt, and the consequences of their actions, as they confront the possibility that Suz may not be truly gone. Readers will find a narrative filled with tension and complex characters, as McMahon weaves elements of the supernatural with the stark realities of life, creating a gripping tale that examines the lengths to which people will go to protect their secrets.
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The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell returns with a chilling novel in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of friends in terrifying ways.
Dismantlement = Freedom
Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto—”To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart”—these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz’s death and the others decide to cover it up.
Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are living just an hour’s drive from the old cabin. Each is desperate to move on from the summer of the Dismantlers, but their guilt isn’t ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide—apparently triggered by a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard—it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf Henry, Tess, and their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma.
Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Is it possible that Suz did not really die—or has she somehow found a way back to seek revenge?
Full of white-knuckle tension with deeply human characters caught in circumstances beyond their control, Jennifer McMahon’s gripping story and spine-tingling plot prove that she is a master at weaving the fear of the supernatural with the stark realities of life.
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