Kate’s 2¢: “The Drowning Kind” by Jennifer McMahon

“The Drowning Kind” by Jennifer McMahon

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   Imani Jade Powers and Joy Osmanski did a great job of narrating this story that might really mess with your mind. It  will make you think twice about swimming in a pool where you can’t see the bottom. Reasearch your genealogy might turn up some fascinating quirks in your lineage.

   NLS should note when the subject matter included lgbtq.

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Jennifer McMahon (born 1968 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American novelist who formerly resided in Barre, Vermont and now lives in Montpelier, Vermont. She has a civil union with her partner Drea, and one child, daughter Zella. She is a graduate of Goddard College, and studied poetry at Vermont College.

Her debut novel, Promise Not to Tell, was published by Harper Paperbacks (an imprint of HarperCollins) in April 2007. Promise Not to Tell was described by Publishers Weekly as “Part mystery-thriller and part ghost story”.[1] It was released in Germany by Rowohlt Verlag, under the title Das Mädchen im Wald (The Girl in the Woods), in October 2007. Orion Publishing Group published Promise Not to Tell in the United Kingdom in 2008. A French edition and Italian edition have also been released.

Her follow-up suspense novel, Island of Lost Girls was published by Harper Paperbacks in April 2008. It was a New York Times Bestseller. It was released in Germany by Rowohlt Verlag, under the title Die Insel der verlorenen Kinder (The Island of Lost Children); and in the Netherlands by De Boekerij under the title Het eiland van de verdwenen meisjes (The Island of Missing Girls). Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown, published it in the United Kingdom in September 2009.

Her next book from HarperCollins, Dismantled, was published in hardcover in June 2009. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Dismantled has also been released in the UK (under the title Girl in the Woods), Germany, and the Netherlands.

In May 2011, McMahon’s suspense novel, Don’t Breathe a Word, was published, again by HarperCollins.

McMahon also has a book of lesbian teen fiction, entitled My Tiki Girl, which was released by Dutton Children’s (an imprint of Penguin Group) in May 2008. It was included in the American Library Association’s 2009 Rainbow List.[2]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The drowning kind DB111377

Author: McMahon, Jennifer

Reading Time: 11 hours, 53 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Imani Jade Powers, Joy Osmanski

Subjects: Occult and Horror Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories, Psychological Fiction

Downloaded: 02/19/2026

“When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. And as she dives deeper into the research herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past than she could have ever imagined. In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately for a baby. In an effort to distract her, her husband whisks her away on a trip to Vermont, where a natural spring is showcased by the newest and most modern hotel in the Northeast. Once there, Ethel learns that the water is rumored to grant wishes, never suspecting that the spring takes in equal measure to what it gives.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021.

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