You Will Know Me

The national bestseller, one of the most acclaimed novels of 2016.

Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gym community just weeks before an all-important competition, everything the Knoxes have worked so hard for feels suddenly at risk.

As rumors swirl among the other parents, revealing hidden plots and allegiances, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself drawn, irresistibly, to the crime itself, and the dark corners it threatens to illuminate.

You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of desire, jealousy, and ambition.

Learn about the inspiration behind You Will Know Me at Entertainment Weekly.

Praise

A finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger Award, the Anthony Award, the Strand Critics Award and the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel of 2017.

You Will Know Me chosen one of Best Books of 2016 by NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Time Out NY, the Washington Post, Google, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.

“The twinned thrill and peril of teen-age sexuality… recurs in subtle ways throughout the book… [Abbott’s] prose, and her focus on teen-age desire, ambition, and secrecy, have a broad, cinematic appeal.“
— New Yorker

“Brilliant…Beneath the glittering carapace of Abbott's lush, skillful, subtle writing, it’s impossible to know what we’re supposed to think… All of this Abbott pulls off with breathtaking skill.“
— New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

“The underlying tension she sustains is so beautifully unbearable… Scene by scene and moment to moment, she keeps you on edge — the same way ‘Breaking Bad’ did, without the meth or machismo…un-put-downable… Abbott is a literary descendant of Richard Yates [and] John Cheever.”
— Chicago Tribune

Also, read Megan’s ”By the Book” in the New York Times Book Review.