The Next Time You See Me

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Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She spends her time alone in the woods near her house - her safe place, until she finds the body of a young woman. Susanna Mitchell is searching for her sister, Ronnie, who vanished after leaving a late-night bar. The more she discovers about Ronnie's life, the more she realises that her sister began to disappear long before she went missing. The Next Time You See Me explores the fault-lines of a small community - their hidden desires and their other, secret selves.

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The Next Time You See Me is an astoundingly good novel...simply mesmerizing -- Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL
So rich in character... An immensely satisfying and skillful debut novel -- Kate Atkinson
Holly Goddard Jones is a strikingly gifted young writer... she turns a clear but compassionate eye to the nuances of small-town life, its secret undercurrents and betrayals -- Kim Edwards, author of THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER
This is a crime novel that cuts deeper than most, superbly black and intense * Daily Mail *
Uniquely talented -- George Pelecanos, author of THE CUT
The Next Time You See Me towers above the crowd... this is a cracking summer read -- Patrick Neale * Bookseller *
[Jones] has a fluid and easy style, and natural empathy with her characters. Strongly recommended * Sunday Business Post *

Author Bio

Holly Goddard Jones is the author of Girl Trouble: Stories (Harper Perennial 2009). Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Epoch, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, and elsewhere, and she was a 2007 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She teaches in the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and lives in North Carolina with her husband, Brandon. The Next Time You See Me is her first novel.