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Gillian French

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Gillian French is the author of SHAW CONNOLLY LIVES TO TELL and RESTLESS BONES, both from Minotaur Books, and five novels for teens from various publishers: GRIT, THE DOOR TO JANUARY, THE LIES THEY TELL, THE MISSING SEASON, and SUGARING OFF. Her short fiction has placed in many competitions, including Writer's Digest and Zoetrope: All Story contests, and has been published in such magazines as Mystery Tribune. She holds a BA in English and lives in her native state of Maine with her husband and four sons, where she's perpetually at work on her next novel. ...more

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Average rating: 3.42 · 7,988 ratings · 1,585 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lies They Tell 3.34 avg rating — 2,935 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grit 3.57 avg rating — 1,794 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Season 3.24 avg rating — 1,377 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sugaring Off 3.51 avg rating — 725 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell 3.46 avg rating — 709 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Restless Bones (A Shaw Connolly Mystery, 2) 3.72 avg rating — 220 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Door to January 3.39 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weirdbook #36 by Douglas Draa (Editor), D.C. Lozar (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), L.F. Falconer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 14: New Books to Make Your Heart Race by Erin Dunn, Gillian French (Goodreads Author), Sandra Jackson-Opoku 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanitarium #30 by Barry Skelhorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terry Miller (Contributor), Nick Kimbro (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“‘You can feel him.’ I’m still looking, spotting the fallen tree, the reeds broken and crushed into a hollow around it, where there could be anything, any hidden thing. ‘Go ahead, close ’em. He’s just standing there.’

I shut my eyes. Kincaid sounds hushed, close to my ear, words running together like they do when he’s excited. ‘You can make out his head right there, under those branches, and his sh

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“sometimes it's hard to know when things stop being fun and turn into a habit”
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“She just freaks out when she fells like nobody sees her" -Bree

There's something so spot-on about that; absolute truth. -Clara”
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“What is known cannot be unknown". -Trace”
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