Lastly, I need to thank people who spend time with me in real life, and sometimes suffer for it. First to my college pals, Amanda, Mel, Erin, and Debbie, who listened to a rambling diatribe about lobotomies on our way to see the Royal Shakespeare Company. I also need to include the people who deal with me on a daily basis—whether it’s a good day or a bad one.

And finally, thanks to my family and boyfriend, who understand that a writing cave is a solitary place and love me anyway.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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MINDY MCGINNIS is the author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust and is an assistant YA librarian who lives in Ohio. She graduated from Otterbein University magna cum laude with a BA in English literature and religion. Mindy has visited historic insane asylums, but they let her leave. You can visit her online at www.mindymcginnis.com.

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BOOKS BY MINDY MCGINNIS

In a Handful of Dust

Not a Drop to Drink

A Madness So Discreet

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Cover art © 2015 by Brooke Shaden

Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons

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Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McGinnis, Mindy.

A madness so discreet / Mindy McGinnis. — First edition.

          pages      cm

Summary: Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio, where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.

ISBN 978-0-06-232086-5 (hardcover)

EPub Edition © September 2015 ISBN 9780062320889

[1. Criminal investigation—Fiction.  2. Physicians—Fiction.  3. Ohio—History—19th century—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.M4784747Mad   2015

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[Fic]—dc23

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