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In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

by Ashley Winstead

A reunion shaped by an unsolved murder

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A reunion shaped by an unsolved murder

A decade after Heather Shelby’s murder fractured a close-knit group at Duquette University, six former friends return to campus with different relationships to the past. Jessica Miller arrives intent on controlling how she is seen, while someone else is determined to uncover the killer. The novel moves between the reunion and the events surrounding Heather’s death, bringing long-held secrets into a story about friendship under strain. Its psychological-suspense framework also gives ambition, obsession, love, and the desire to measure one’s life against others a place alongside the murder mystery.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy psychological thrillers centered on an unsolved murder and a group of former friends.
  • Those interested in college-reunion settings, secrets, and stories that move across two timelines.
  • Readers drawn to fiction about friendship, ambition, obsession, and social comparison.

Themes

Friendship and fractured loyaltiesAmbition and social comparisonObsession and secrecyAn unsolved murder

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Book overview

[A] mordant debut novel....examines what it means to covet the lives of others, no matter the cost.--The New York Times

Tense, twisty, and packed with shocks.--Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Survive The Night

Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see--confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby's murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she'd been closest to since freshman year.

But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather's murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night--and the years' worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.

Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won't be able to put down.

Beautiful writing, juicy secrets, complex female characters, and drumbeat suspense--what more could you want from a debut thriller?--Andrea Bartz, author of Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here

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