Megan Abbott Signs in San Diego

Dare Me is a chilling contemporary noir tale of dark passions and their consequences.  A new cheer coach changes a high school variety team’s power structure, and “lieutenant” Abby Hanlon revels in receiving special attention from the coach while dealing with the fallout from her BFF’s being deposed as the squad’s Queen Bee. Megan builds the story like the central cast of cheerleaders build their precarious 2-2-1 pyramid, with the players each only able to see their own contribution, and readers holding their breath, aware that disaster is only a hairsbreadth away. Particularly recommended to fans of Laura Lippman’s The Power of Three.  – Maryelizabeth

About the Author

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Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, and The End of Everything.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Detroit Noir, Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, Storyglossia, Queens Noir and The Speed Chronicles.

Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. This year, she is teaching at the Crime Fiction Academy at New York City's Center for Fiction.

She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated for many awards, including three Edgar® Awards, Hammett Prize, the Macavity, Anthony and Barry Awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pushcart Prize.