June 23, 2020

Megan Miranda’s Latest Psychological Thriller is “The Girl From Widow Hills”

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In this episode 116, we visit with Megan Miranda, a New York Times best-selling author whose latest book, “The Girl From Widow Hills,” releases today, June 23, 2020.

R.L. Stine, best-selling author of “Goosebumps and Fear Street, says this of the book: “Sleep-walking is creepy. You’re asleep, but you’re walking through the night—like the living dead. I knew when I started ‘The Girl from Widow Hills’ I was in for some shivers. But I had no idea the terrors that were in store.”

Megan starts the show with a reading from the prologue of the book, where we learn about the girl who survived, the girl who held on, and the girl who had not been that girl for a long time.

About the new release:

Inspired by the story of Baby Jessica, who fell down a well in 1987 when she was 18 months old and was trapped for 58 hours, Miranda tells the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.”

Arden Maynor was just six years old when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm. Against all odds, she was found alive, clinging to a storm drain. Fame followed, with fans and creeps and stalkers, and every year, the anniversary brought them and the media attention back. Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye, but just before the twentieth anniversary of her rescue, she begins sleepwalking again, and one night she wakes with the corpse of a man she knows from her previous life at her feet.

Connect with the author

Check out the author’s website here:

https://meganmiranda.com

Check out the author’s social media here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMeganMiranda/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeganLMiranda

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MeganLMiranda/

Goodreads Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4417749.Megan_Miranda

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About the Author

Megan Miranda writes psychological suspense for adults and young adults.

She is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, and The Last House Guest.She has also written several books for young adults, including The Safest Lies, Fragments of the Lost, and Come Find Me.

She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from MIT, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children

Find out more about the author, with links to interviews about her writing process and more, here: https://meganmiranda.com/faq/

About Megan Miranda’s writing

The Los Angeles Review of Books has written that Megan Miranda’s writing “reclaim[s] the right of female characters to be more than victim or femme fatale, and thereby disrupt[s] not only the plot, but also the genre itself.” Between Arden’s reinvention of herself into anonymity, a twisted female friendship, and a fraught mother-daughter relationship, readers end up with masterful characters that continue to redraw the lines of genre fiction and the ways women see themselves in the world.

And of Miranda’s story structure, the New York Times Book Review has raved, “Dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings are this author’s stock in trade…And, oh boy, does she ever know how to write a twisty-turny ending (or two, or more).” Between the worlds Miranda builds and the characters in it, you know you’re in talented hands for a terrifying ride.

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