First published 2023
Alice Lawrence sits in a courthouse bathroom, preparing to testify against her sister's killer. Claire died in a corn maze exactly one year ago, and Alice watched it happen. The trial has torn her family apart. Her parents divorced. She lives in a cramped apartment that reeks of bologna. Everyone questions what she really saw that Halloween night. A figure dressed like Sidney Prescott attacks Alice in the bathroom. She wakes up on Halloween night one year earlier. Claire is alive again. The murder hasn't happened yet. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and identify the real killer. Claire was everything Alice wasn't. Beautiful, popular, the star of every school play. Alice preferred horror movies to parties and dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist. But the sisters were best friends despite their differences. Now Alice must use everything she knows about that terrible night to change the outcome. The killer is still out there, and Alice has only hours to stop him from claiming another victim.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: second-chance, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Corn Maze, Courthouse
Period: Halloween, One Year Ago
304 pages · Paperback · PENGUIN US
Content warnings: death, murder