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EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD

Jenny Hollander

A twisty thriller debut for fans of Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive and Riley Sager's Final Girls.

It's been eight years since Charlie Colbert witnessed the horrific events of what the tabloids dubbed "Scarlet Christmas." That's how she was named in the police reports - a witness, though Charlie knows she was far more than that. But thanks to a cocktail of therapy, work, and severed relationships, Charlie has finally moved on: she's the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, fiancée to the heir to a publishing dynasty. Even the press have finally stopped harassing her. But Charlie shouldn't have let her guard down. Suddenly, "Scarlet Christmas" -- named for the bloody scene paramedics stumbled across on Christmas Eve at the prestigious Carroll University -- is being adapted for film, with Charlie's classmates promising the public that this time, they'll get to find out what really happened. With everything at stake, Charlie must decide how far she'll go to stop the past that haunts her from colliding with her shiny present. Jenny Hollander is the director of content strategy at Marie Claire, where she oversees the brand's daily coverage, in addition to its digital goals, revenue streams, and #ReadWithMC, its book club. Originally from London, she moved to New York in 2012 to attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and never left. Prior to Marie Claire, she spent five years at Bustle overseeing news and politics coverage.

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Book Published 2024-02-06 by St. Martin's Press

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Fans of Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive will love this tautly-constructed thriller in which a woman's fate rests on answering the one question that has always eluded her: what is she capable of in her darkest moments? For accomplished journalist Charlie Colbert, no truth is more dangerous than the one that hides in her own mind, no relationship more troubled than the one she has with herself. Hollander paints an engrossing tale of a woman coming to terms not only with the ghosts of her past but her own true nature. A nail-biting ride that will keep readers turning pages long into the night.

Jenny Hollander's Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead is a propulsive read, rife with tension from page one. The timely storyline seamlessly shifts between past and present, each timeline pushing the other forward, making this a book I struggled to put down. If you liked The Luckiest Girl Alive, you'll love Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead!

Witty, tightly plotted, knife-sharp, and utterly immersive, EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD had me flaking on plans to squeeze in one more chapter. Fans of Jessica Knoll and Megan Miranda, meet your new favorite author.

Jenny Hollander's Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead is exactly the kind of thriller I love. It's a deliciously conflicting feeling to wonder when the shiny perfection of a new life built over a terrible secret will begin to tarnish, and in her first novel, Hollander doles out the suspense as masterfully as any veteran author. Honestly, this book had me at "Scarlet Christmas." A dark and dazzling debut.

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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead has a creeping sense of dread, a slow, almost torturous, drip-feeding of information, and a highly likeable, yet unsettlingly unreliable narrator. It all builds to one of most chilling and interesting reads of the year. Highly recommended.

Jenny Hollander's debut novel plays with memory to deftly unpack the dangerous ways our minds trick when obsession and a lack of control collide. At once twisty and propulsive, Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead keeps readers guessing as the protagonist parties, falls in love, and establishes her journalism career in New York City until a mass tragedy upends it all - and, years later, the truth threatens to both ruin her life and set her free. If you loved Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive and Andrea Bartz's The Lost Night, this book is for you!

Totally gripping. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead grabbed me from the start, and didn't let go until I had finished the last page. Each character is unique and so clear that, by the end of the book, I felt as if I knew them all, and that I had been there with them throughout the story.

Jenny Hollander has written an intoxicatingly sharp thriller. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead deftly explores trauma and the dark things we believe ourselves capable of. I never wanted to stop reading it, and I can't wait for Hollander's next novel.

My favourite debut of the year. Clever, pacy and utterly compelling.

Relentlessly twisty and bitingly sharp, Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead is guaranteed to keep you up past your bedtime. With an undercurrent of smart, dark humor, a chilling mystery at its core, and long-buried secrets resurfacing, this electrifying debut will grip readers and not let go. Voicey, unpredictable, and wholly addictive.