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Night of the Mallrats

by Nicolina Torres

A return to the mall—and to 1994

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A return to the mall—and to 1994

Thirty years after their high school days, Colleen and her former clique reunite inside the condemned Beechnut Mall for one last night. The gathering takes a startling turn when they are transported to the mall in its 1990s heyday, on the night Beth Packard disappeared. Their effort to uncover what happened to Beth brings them face to face with the gaps between memory and truth, as well as secrets within their own group. Nicolina Torres combines a slasher-horror setting with a time-travel mystery, using the mall’s return to its past to connect a missing-person case with the friends’ shared history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of slasher horror and time-travel mysteries
  • Readers interested in stories about former friends revisiting their past
  • Those drawn to 1990s mall settings and missing-person mysteries

Themes

Friendship and shared historyMemory, secrets, and betrayalDisappearance and murderNostalgia and the past

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Book overview

"Readers Beware"-- Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black

"This was non-stop spooky joy." Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Awards(R) winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

Five friends travel back to the 1990s to solve the brutal murder and disappearance of two of their high school peers in this thrilling debut novel from a promising new voice in horror--a murderous, nightmarish romp that is nostalgic, terrifying, and impossible to put down.

Shop 'til you drop . . . dead

Colleen's life feels as hollow as the abandoned Beechnut Mall--the 90s hangout where neon lights and endless laughter defined her teens thirty years before. When her old high school clique reassembles for one last night of rebellion inside the now condemned building, she joins them, never expecting the mall to give something back. The reunited friends do not know that inside its darkened halls, the past is waiting, and it's not all Glamour Shots, Beanie Babies, and Lisa Frank.

Faced with their lost youth, they are drawn back into the mystery of Beth Packard--a schoolmate who vanished in 1994--and without warning, they find themselves transported to the mall in its heyday on the very night Beth disappeared. Thrust back three decades, the former mallrats must unravel the secrets hidden beneath memories, lies, and betrayals before time snaps shut around them. But each step closer to the truth of Beth's disappearance brings them within reach of exposing ugly, fatal truths about each other.

Haunting, wistful, pulse-pounding fun, Night of the Mallrats is a time-travel thriller that asks a question with an unforgettable answer: What really happened to Beth Packard?

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