Survive the Night by Riley Sager6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Michelle Brower, Aevitas Creative Management. Fans of Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying will be pleased. Sager excels at playing with reader expectations and in concocting plausible, gut-wrenching twists. Her tendency to create movies in her mind makes her perceptions unreliable, even to herself. Charlie soon suspects Josh has been lying to her about who he is. Wracked with guilt and self-loathing, Charlie resolves to leave in the middle of the semester, and finds a ride home to Ohio with Josh Baxter, a janitor employed by Olyphant driving to the state to tend to his ill father. She was stabbed multiple times and one of her teeth was removed, the hallmark of a two-time murderer dubbed the Campus Killer. Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, most recently Survive the Night and The House Across the Lake. A day after Charlie let Maddy walk back from a bar to their dorm on her own after an argument, Maddy’s corpse was found. Charlie Jordan blames herself for the death of Maddy, her best friend and roommate at New Jersey’s Olyphant University. Thriller Award finalist Sager ( Home Before Dark) elevates a standard suspense trope-a young woman trapped in a car with a stranger she fears is a serial killer-in this stellar nail-biter set in 1991. ![]()
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Come to the edge by christina haag6/30/2023 ![]() NYC truly belonged to those who lived it in the 70’s and 80’s and I feel we now visit it, crushing theater tickets with our UGG’s and eating pizza on the sidewalk to celebrate when it was free and glittering. “Come to the Edge,” by the amazing actress and author CHRISTINA HAAG, is a chance to dive into that special “adventure” time in NYC where a late-night jaunt in Central Park wasn’t scary but necessary and treasured, a whole life change could be felt walking a few blocks and special spots in the city felt like personal monuments. The book is a fascinating, truly visually detailed, and emotionally sparkling stunner. Remember those books from years ago where page by page you could “choose your own adventure”? The book and beautiful woman I am spotlighting now is the adventure, I, and many other girlie girls, would love to choose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Sam starts receiving threatening notes, they know they’re on the path to uncovering a murderer. But are they digging through the past or digging their own future grave? Sam can’t resist trying to find out more about the kid who died and who now seems to guide their investigation. Yet the past keeps roaring back-in Sam’s memories and in the form of a thirty-year-old suspicious death that took place in Sam’s new home. They’re certain they don’t have much time left.īut Sam's life seems to be on the upswing after meeting several new friends and a potential love interest in Shep, their next-door neighbor. Now, as Sam’s own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haunts them. Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives-of kids who died before they turned nineteen. In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary autistic teen realizes they must not only solve a 30-year-old mystery but also face the demons lurking in their past in order to live a satisfying life. Here’s something rare-a suspenseful story that also feels like a hug.” -Sarah Glenn Marsh, author of the Reign of the Fallen series “Look no further for your next favorite read, because The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester has it all: a gripping murder mystery that will keep you turning pages, ghosts, romance, and a treasure trove of queer characters with depth and heart. An Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction Nominee ![]() |