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Also by Alex Finlay:

The Anniversary, May 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Parents Weekend, April 2026
Trade Paperback
Parents Weekend, May 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
If Something Happens to Me, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
What Have We Done, December 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
What Have We Done, March 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
What Have We Done, March 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Night Shift, December 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Night Shift, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Every Last Fear, December 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Every Last Fear, March 2021
Hardcover / e-Book

PARENTS WEEKEND
By: Alex Finlay

Minotaur Books
May 2025
On Sale: May 6, 2025
320 pages
ISBN: 1250360722
EAN: 9781250360724
Kindle: B0DBVV6PMG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Psychological

From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.

In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up at dinner.

At first, everyone thinks that they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise.

Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them—come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within?

Told through multiple points of view in past and present—and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift—Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days we all remember in the dorms when our friends become our family.