Parents Weekend: A Novel [Hardcover]

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the bestselling author ofIf Something Happens to Me, comes one of the years most anticipated thrillers.

In the glow of their childrens exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kidsfive residents of Campisi Hallnever show up to dinner.

At first, everyone thinks theyre just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours tick 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 StellaThe Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths soon call themcome from very different families. What drew them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them perilor a threat to the friend group from within?

Told from each familys point of viewand marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller fromEvery Last FearandThe Night ShiftParents Weekendexplores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days in the dorms when friends become family.

ALEX FINLAY is the bestselling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the 2024 national bestseller,If Something Happens to Me. His work regularly appears on best-of-the-year lists and has been translated into twenty-five languages and sold around the world. Nearly all of Alexs books have been optioned or are in development for film and television. His May 2025 release,Parents Weekend, has already been scooped up by Hollywood for adaptlã’