The Turnout: ''Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic'' (Stephen King) - the New York Times bestseller

About Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little Bury Me Deep The End of Everything Dare Me You Will Know Me and The Fever. Her most recent book is Give Me Your Hand.Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger the International Thriller Writers Award the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show The Deuce she is now co-creator executive producer and show-runner of Dare Me based upon her novel for the USA Network and internationally Netflix.Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Salon the Guardian Wall Street Journal the Los Angeles Times Magazine and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016.Born in the Detroit area she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-14 she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss.She is also the author of a nonfiction book The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir and the editor of A Hell of a Woman an anthology of female crime fiction.