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End-of-the-Year Contest 2020

Congratulations to the winners of our 2020 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 42 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2020, while 14 others won a selection of three of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2020's Bets On books.

Megan Miranda, author of The Girl from Widow Hills

Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book, and fame followed. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye. Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, she goes by Olivia. But with the 20th anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking outside her home. Until late one night she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows --- from her previous life, as Arden Maynor.

The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

June 2020

THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS by Megan Miranda is a brisk suspense/thriller. In it, Arden Maynor was six years old when she sleepwalked away from her house, fell into a river and was swept away in a rainstorm. Days later, she was found alive and became a celebrity for it. But that celebrity was too much for her. She has changed her name and tried to move on from her unwanted “fame.”

Week of June 14, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of June 14th include THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS by Megan Miranda, a riveting novel of psychological suspense about a young lady plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet; Silvia Moreno Garcia's MEXICAN GOTHIC, a brilliant, page-turning romp --- set in glamorous 1950s Mexico --- about an isolated mansion, a chillingly charismatic aristocrat, and a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets; THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN, Wayétu Moore's engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States; THE DILEMMA, a poignant, heart-stopping novel from B. A. Paris about a woman's 40th birthday party that takes a dark turn; and THE BUDDHIST ON DEATH ROW, in which BEAUTIFUL BOY author David Sheff explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters, who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.