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The Anniversary

Alex Finlay · Mystery & Thriller

37 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

psychological thrillerrevenge plottwist endingtrauma recovery
psychological thrillerdomestic thriller
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus

#284 All Time

About this book

Today became an anniversary they would never celebrate. One fateful night in 1992, Jules and Quinn’s lives are changed and intertwined forever. Quinn Riley, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested after he innocently tries to break up a fight but ends up nearly killing someone. Jules Delaney, high school royalty, survives an attack by the elusive and terrifying May Day Killer—a predator who strikes every May 1st in small Midwestern towns. A year later, Jules is struggling with trauma and guilt, tormented by the question: Why was I spared? Quinn is newly released from juvenile detention and returns home to fresh heartbreak: the unsolved murder of his mother. Over the next decade, their lives are revisited on a single day each year, May 1st. As secrets unravel and the paths of Quinn and Jules converge, two mysteries edge closer to the truth. All the while, the May Day Kil

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