The Summer We Buried: A Novel

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An unthinkable crime-and the tattered threads of a friendship gone wrong-come roaring back to terrible new life in Jody Gehrman's riveting psychological suspense, perfect for fans of Joshilyn Jackson. Twenty years ago, Tansy was drawn to Selene's hard edges, her grit, and her knack for survival. Since then, the confused tangle of guilt about covering up a murder shattered their friendship, and even now, at thirty-eight, Tansy has never come to terms with what happened that night. But now, Selene is back, demanding her old friend repay her. Selene's daughter, Jupiter, attends the college where Tansy works as a guidance counselor. Selene is convinced that Jupiter's boyfriend, Colton, is abusive, and wants Tansy to intervene. As she is drawn back into the intensity of Selene's world, Tansy discovers the ugly truth about Colton. But Tansy suspects there's far more to the story, and now she'll finally have to confront Selene once and for all.

Reviews

Praise for The Summer We Buried:
"Gripping . . . Gehrman keeps the suspense high . . . Psychological thriller fans will find much to like."
Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Girls Weekend:
A brooding meditation on how friendships buckle when we resent other peoples success.
The Washington Post

[An] exhilarating, atmospheric thrillerexploring the darker side of friendship.With dazzling prose and an eerily beautiful setting, The Girls Weekend delivers some ugly but necessary truths."
Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister

"From its irresistible first sentence to the final page, The Girls Weekend isa captivating who-done-it and a tour de force thriller . . . Simply unputdownable."
Paula Treick DeBoard, critically acclaimed author of Here We Lie and The Drowning Girls

Clear your schedule, because once you pick The Girls Weekend up, you wont be able to set it down.
Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, bestselling authors of The Two Lila Bennetts

"A heart-pounding thriller that will have you guessing until the very end! Not to be missed."
Elle Marr, author of The Missing Sister

Gehrman does a good job delineating the womens individual characters.
Publishers Weekly

A Celtic knot of suspense and surprise."
Red Carpet Crash

A Mean Girls reunion.
New York Journal of Books

I highly recommend this.
Seattle Book Review

Author Bio

Jody Gehrman has authored several novels and numerous plays for stage and screen. Her young-adult novel, Babe in Boyland, won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award and was optioned by the Disney Channel. Jody's plays have been produced or had staged readings in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. Her full-length, Tribal Life in America, won the Ebell Playwrights Prize and received a staged reading at the historic Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is a professor of Communications at Mendocino College in Northern California.