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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.

‘Winstead does an expert job keeping the reader guessing whodunit. Suspense fans will eagerly await her next.’ - Publisher’s Weekly

‘Tense, twisty, and packed with shocks…a terrific read.’ - Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark

‘An addictive and riveting psychological thriller. Put this one at the very top of your 2021 reading list.’ - Liv Constantine, internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

‘An astonishingly sure-footed debut, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife is the definition of compulsive reading. The last page will give you nightmares.’ - Amy Gentry, bestselling author of Good as Gone, Last Woman Standing, and Bad Habits

‘Twisty and compulsively readable, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife will have you turning pages late into the night, not just to figure out who murdered beloved Heather Shelby, but to see whether friendships forged under fire can ever be resurrected again.’ - Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight