HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR MURDER

Reliving the worst day of her life offers a teenager the chance to change her murdered sister’s fate.

Alice is your typical horror movie–loving high school student, an aspiring forensic pathologist in Omaha, Nebraska, who knows all the best movies and all the details of their gruesome murders. Her world is turned upside down on Halloween night, however, when cinematic gore enters real life, and she finds classmate Chloe in a corn maze with her arm cut off. Attempting to flee from the maze to get help, Alice then witnesses her sister, Claire, die at the hands of college student Owen Maddox. Now getting ready to serve as a witness at Maddox’s trial one year later, she has been inundated by people who think he’s innocent, including a look-alike of Sidney Prescott from the Scream franchise who gives her the worst gift possible. After being hit on the head, Alice is thrown back a year and forced to live through the day her sister died, but there is a catch: If Alice can solve the mystery of who attacked Chloe, everything she changes during that night will remain, offering her a chance to save her sister. This book offers readers strong pacing that parallels that of slasher films, with a dash of mystery and a pinch of meta-horror, making it hard to put down. Main characters are White, and there is some diversity in race and sexuality in the supporting cast.

A delightfully twisted story.