Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Give Me Your Hand a "spectacular thriller." This is FRESH AIR. Megan Abbott has made a name for herself as a suspense writer who likes to make a study of closed ...

“Did someone do something to you?” Kit asks her friend Diane in the first chapter of Megan Abbott’s new novel, Give Me Your Hand. “Did someone hurt you?” The 17-year-olds are doing their ...

In her fiction, though, Abbott is often more interested in female murderers. Her newest book, “Give Me Your Hand,” traces the relationship between two talented chemists, Kit and Diane ...