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Kimberly McCreight


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Kimberly McCreight attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. After several years as a litigation associate at some of New York Citys biggest law firms, she left the practice of law to write full-time. Her work has appeared in such publications as Antietam Review, Oxford Magazine and Babble. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband and two daughters.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Mystery
 
Series
Outliers
   1. The Outliers (2016)
   2. The Scattering (2017)
   3. The Collide (2018)
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Novels
   Reconstructing Amelia (2013)
   Where They Found Her (2015)
   A Good Marriage (2020)
   Friends Like These (2021)
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Awards
Anthony Awards Best First Novel nominee (2014) : Reconstructing Amelia


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The Quiet Tenant (2023)
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"A mystery that is at once riveting and heartrending, The Quiet Tenant is a sharply insightful look at what it means to live and love as a woman in this harrowing world. It is truly extraordinary."
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The Long Way Back (2023)
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"The Long Way Back is a beautifully written, atmospheric, page-turner, that brilliantly explores the complexities of the mother-daughter bone, finding it as fraught as it is profound."
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You Should Have Told Me (2023)
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"Atmospheric and deeply thought-provoking, You Should Have Told Me is both a page-turning mystery and a deft exploration of the thorny intersection of marriage and parenthood and the complex, often fraught reality of new motherhood."
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The Lies I Tell (2022)
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"The Lies I Tell is a uniquely riveting cat and mouse game with two artfully nuanced female protagonists that is at once a razor-sharp, page-turning mystery and a brilliant, thought-provoking exploration of what it truly means to do good in the world."
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Catch Her When She Falls (2022)
Allison Buccola
"Richly atmospheric and thoroughly propulsive, Catch Her When She Falls is a thought-provoking mystery about the fraught interconnectedness of youth and the tragic limitations of teenage insight."

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