![]() ![]() What ends up happening is there is a hack at the university, and everything is exposed. It’s about a community and different families who are all part of a fictitious university town in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. What is it about, and where did the first nugget of inspiration come from? I’d love to start with your sharing a little about Reputation. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. ![]() ![]() Shepard spoke to Fortune about Reputation, her incredibly prolific career-and what it is about the books she writes that leaves readers begging for more. Like all of Shepard’s work, it is an inarguable page-turner filled with murder, intrigue, and female characters who are somehow simultaneously easy to adore and loathe. Reputation follows the goings-on in a university community after a hack lands everyone’s private business squarely in the public eye. If the title isn’t a dead giveaway, Reputation also involves another Shepard trademark: the often massive gulf between who a person pretends to be and who they really are. “I heard it called a ‘domestic thriller,’’’ Shepard says, defining her new book. Shepard’s stories have a few hallmarks: They are mysteries about women or teen girls usually taking place in Pennsylvania towns they often involve the spooky or sinister side of technology and whether these stories are being read or watched, they are filled with cliff-hangers so juicy you can’t turn away. ![]()
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