The Children on the Hill

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What this book is about

Vi grew up in the 1970s at Hillside Inn — her brilliant grandmother's psychiatric hospital — where the children she met there were her only friends, including a new girl named Iris whose origins no one would explain. Decades later, Vi is a true-crime podcaster investigating a series of murders that seem connected to a monster out of her childhood. Jennifer McMahon's horror novel builds its dread from the specific terror of a child discovering that the adults she trusted were doing something wrong in a place that was supposed to heal people.