First published 2026
Barb never left Seaside after her best friend Lorelei was murdered twenty-five years ago. She writes for the local paper and secretly pens gossip about reality TV stars, including Trophy Wives, a Canadian show. The killer known as The Carnival Killer confessed to murdering Lorelei after she spent an evening with a drifter named Sam at Wonderland amusement park and the drive-in. Now he has recanted his confession. Nicolette, Barb's other best friend, fled town after the murder and reinvented herself as Cole Lennox, a star on Trophy Wives married to a wealthy man in Toronto. She never returned to Seaside. When another young woman's body washes ashore just as Wonderland prepares to reopen, both women must face what really happened that night twenty-five years ago. The truth threatens to destroy not only their carefully built lives but the entire town of Seaside.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: deception, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Canada, Seaside, Toronto, Wonderland
Period: 25 Years Ago
368 pages · Hardcover · Minotaur Books
Content warnings: death, murder