Karen M. McManus, born in 1969 in Massachusetts, is an American writer of young-adult mysteries. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and of Northeastern University, she published her first novel, “One of Us Is Lying”, in 2017; it spent 160 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted for television in 2021. Two sequels followed, “One of Us Is Next” (2020) and “One of Us Is Back” (2023), alongside standalone thrillers — “Two Can Keep a Secret”, “The Cousins”, “You’ll Be the Death of Me”, “Nothing More to Tell” and “Such Charming Liars”. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages.
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Karen M. McManus, born in 1969 in Massachusetts, is an American writer of young-adult mysteries. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and of Northeastern University, she published her first novel, “One of Us Is Lying”, in 2017; it spent 160 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted for television in 2021. Two sequels followed, “One of Us Is Next” (2020) and “One of Us Is Back” (2023), alongside standalone thrillers — “Two Can Keep a Secret”, “The Cousins”, “You’ll Be the Death of Me”, “Nothing More to Tell” and “Such Charming Liars”. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages.
