![]() And they may harm one another, but they, you know, when there's an outsider they kind of close ranks. It's the family that keeps everybody's secrets, and they protect one another. I mean, I'm always interested in sort of closed societies because, in some ways, it's like the classic crime story of the mob, right. Is this a natural for a mystery? What got you into this?ĪBBOTT: I think it is. Gymnastics when we think of that world, we think insular. And like in any insular community, there's theories and rumors, and it shakes everyone up just at this moment before this rather important competition. And it sort of rocks the community and sort of speculation abounds. ![]() And she's about to go to the next stage of being elite gymnastics when the coach - his niece's boyfriend is - dies in a hit-and-run accident. ![]() MEGAN ABBOTT: It's a tight-knit gymnastics community and everyone sort of has hitched themselves to Devon, the central gymnast star. Her latest, called "You Will Know Me," takes place in the glittery and mysterious world of competitive gymnastics, where a 13-year-old star and her family are pursuing Olympic dreams. ![]() Megan Abbott is the queen of teenage noir, crime novels that center in the worlds of girls and their parents and extreme sports. ![]()
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