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Melanie McCabe

Biography

Melanie McCabe

Melanie McCabe is the award-winning author of three poetry collections and a memoir. ROAD LONGER THAN MEMORY is her debut novel. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah and other national publications. A lifelong Virginian, she taught high school English and creative writing in Arlington for over two decades.

Melanie McCabe

Books by Melanie McCabe

by Melanie McCabe - Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, she spots in the gymnasium the man she suspects was involved in a classmate’s violent death a decade earlier. Haunted by the past, Sara confronts the memories she’s spent years trying to suppress: her sister Suzanne’s fatal car crash, her secret summer with the reckless Devlin Barrie, and the anonymous 911 call she made after witnessing what she believes was a murder. As the construction of Interstate 66 physically fractures her community, Sara grapples with emotional fault lines of her own --- guilt, silence and buried truth.