Jessa Maxwell

Stephanie Ewens

About The Author

Jessa Maxwell is the nationally bestselling author of The Golden Spoon, I Need You to Read This, and Dead of Summer. She is also the author and illustrator of five picture books for children. Her comics and cartoons have been published in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and her writing has been published in SlateMarie Claire, and many others. She now lives in Jamestown, Rhode Island, with her husband, two cats and three-legged dog. 

Books by Jessa Maxwell

Dead of Summer

A Novel

“If you like tense, gripping beach reads about rich people behaving badly—you’ve come to the right place.” —Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author

Years after her best friend mysteriously disappeared from a remote New England island, a young woman returns in sea...
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