From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year's most anticipated thrillers.
In the glow of their children's exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up at dinner.
At first, everyone thinks that they're just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise.
Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them—come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within?
Told through multiple points of view in past and present—and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift—Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days we all remember in the dorms when our friends become our family.
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781250360731
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781250360731
- File size: 3976 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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December 1, 2024
Finlay (If Something Happens to Me) returns with a thriller set in Northern California at a small private college, where families are visiting for parents' weekend. When five students inexplicably go missing, the police are called in. FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear, which is in development for a TV series, makes a cameo. With a 100K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.
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April 1, 2025
This popcorn thriller from one of the genre's best is a twisty, dark tale about the power of social media and the consequences of family trauma. It's Parents Weekend at SCU, and the festivities are set to begin with a dinner for the students and their families. When friends Stella, Libby, Mark, Blane, and Felix don't show up for dinner as expected, there are several legitimate possibilities for their absence. But their parents immediately know something isn't right and notify the authorities, who are already on high alert after a student was found dead earlier in the week. Assigned to the case, FBI agent Sarah Keller quickly discovers that everyone involved has a secret, and each family has something to hide. Finlay (If Something Happens to Me, 2024) has a gift for intertwining many story lines and characters in a cohesive, compelling way. The tropes used here don't feel stale, and plenty of surprises and red herrings will keep readers interested. Fans won't want to miss Finlay's latest.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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