First published 2017
Andy runs from the law across state lines in 1990. Kerri pours drinks in New York bars and drowns her genius in alcohol. Nate talks to his dead friend Peter from inside an Arkham asylum. Thirteen years have passed since the Blyton Summer Detective Club solved their final case in 1977, but the nightmares never stopped. The four friends who once chased mysteries through the mining town of Blyton Hills now carry deeper scars than teenage adventures should leave behind. When they finally reunite, they must return to the Zoinx River Valley where everything went wrong. This time the monsters waiting for them won't be unmasked to reveal some greedy adult in a costume. The real creatures they face will test whether their broken adult selves can survive what their younger versions barely escaped.
Genres: adventure, mystery, horror, contemporary
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Arkham, Blyton Hills, Blyton Summer Detective Club, New York, Zoinx River Valley
Period: 1977, 1990
322 pages · Hardcover · Doubleday
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness