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A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
by Holly Jackson
The author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: an "irresistible" (The Washington Post) thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder, "full of the writer's signature twists and turns" (People).
In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she's still waiting for her life to begin. I'll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents' dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.
Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now, in the one week she has left, she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.
As her condition deteriorates, she reconnects with her childhood friend Billy, the only one willing to help her. With Billy at her side, she's absolutely determined to finally finish something:
Jet is going to solve her own murder.
"I felt all the emotions while reading Not Quite Dead Yet. It's funny, touching, heartbreaking, thrilling, and totally addictive, a. An original and unique thriller that I'll be thinking about for a long time." —Claire Douglas, author of The Wrong Sister
"Not Quite Dead Yet is everything I love about Holly Jackson's novels dialled up to eleven—a searingly clever premise, of course absolutely unputdownable, interspersed with her trademark humour, and with a protagonist in Jet that you can't help rooting for. An instant classic." —Amy McCulloch, author of Breathless and Runner 13
"This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!" —Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid
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Holly Jackson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, an international sensation with millions of copies sold worldwide and a hit Netflix series. She graduated from the University of Nottingham, where she studied literary linguistics and creative writing and graduated with a master's degree in English. She enjoys playing video games and watching true-crime documentaries so she can pretend to be a detective. She lives in London.
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