Not Quite Dead Yet

A Novel

Author Holly Jackson On Tour
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.

The stunning hardcover of Not Quite Dead features a custom-stamped case, beautiful endpapers, and a premium dust jacket!

“This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller-coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!”—Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.

Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.

Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.

She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:

Jet is going to solve her own murder.
“[Holly Jackson’s] new book, about a woman who has to solve her own murder, is full of the writer's signature twists and turns.”People

“[A] page-turning thriller.”Southern Living

“The adult debut from megapopular YA thriller author Holly Jackson, . . . Not Quite Dead Yet has one of the most intriguing hooks of the year.”Paste

“Holly Jackson’s adult debut is a countdown thriller with teeth.”Crime Reads

“I absolutely loved it: twisty, edgy, and with her Jackson’s trademark voice. It deserves to fly.”—Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

“A thrilling, twisting, heartbreaker,. Holly Jackson’s adult debut is fresh, fun, and impossible to put down.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

“I felt all the emotions while reading Not Quite Dead Yet. It’s funny, touching, heartbreaking, thrilling, and totally addictive, a. An original and unique thriller that I’ll be thinking about for a long time.”—Claire Douglas, author of The Wrong Sister

Not Quite Dead Yet is everything I love about Holly Jackson’s novels dialled up to eleven—a searingly clever premise, of course absolutely unputdownable, interspersed with her trademark humour, and with a protagonist in Jet that you can’t help rooting for. An instant classic.”—Amy McCulloch, author of Breathless and Runner 13

“This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!”—Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid

“Propulsive, unputdownable and unexpectedly heart wrenching, Not Quite Dead Yet is a masterclass in thriller writing and an example of storytelling at its finest.”—Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient
Holly Jackson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, an international sensation with millions of copies sold worldwide as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller and instant classic, Five Survive, and her forthcoming novel, The Reappearance of Rachel Price. She graduated from the University of Nottingham, where she studied literary linguistics and creative writing, with a master’s degree in English. She enjoys playing video games and watching true-crime documentaries so she can pretend to be a detective. She lives in London. View titles by Holly Jackson

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.

The stunning hardcover of Not Quite Dead features a custom-stamped case, beautiful endpapers, and a premium dust jacket!

“This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller-coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!”—Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.

Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.

Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.

She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:

Jet is going to solve her own murder.

Reviews

“[Holly Jackson’s] new book, about a woman who has to solve her own murder, is full of the writer's signature twists and turns.”People

“[A] page-turning thriller.”Southern Living

“The adult debut from megapopular YA thriller author Holly Jackson, . . . Not Quite Dead Yet has one of the most intriguing hooks of the year.”Paste

“Holly Jackson’s adult debut is a countdown thriller with teeth.”Crime Reads

“I absolutely loved it: twisty, edgy, and with her Jackson’s trademark voice. It deserves to fly.”—Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

“A thrilling, twisting, heartbreaker,. Holly Jackson’s adult debut is fresh, fun, and impossible to put down.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

“I felt all the emotions while reading Not Quite Dead Yet. It’s funny, touching, heartbreaking, thrilling, and totally addictive, a. An original and unique thriller that I’ll be thinking about for a long time.”—Claire Douglas, author of The Wrong Sister

Not Quite Dead Yet is everything I love about Holly Jackson’s novels dialled up to eleven—a searingly clever premise, of course absolutely unputdownable, interspersed with her trademark humour, and with a protagonist in Jet that you can’t help rooting for. An instant classic.”—Amy McCulloch, author of Breathless and Runner 13

“This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!”—Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid

“Propulsive, unputdownable and unexpectedly heart wrenching, Not Quite Dead Yet is a masterclass in thriller writing and an example of storytelling at its finest.”—Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient

Author

Holly Jackson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, an international sensation with millions of copies sold worldwide as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller and instant classic, Five Survive, and her forthcoming novel, The Reappearance of Rachel Price. She graduated from the University of Nottingham, where she studied literary linguistics and creative writing, with a master’s degree in English. She enjoys playing video games and watching true-crime documentaries so she can pretend to be a detective. She lives in London. View titles by Holly Jackson
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