On one fateful night in 1992, the lives of two seventeen-year-olds 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 serial predator who strikes every May 1st in midwestern small towns.
A year later, Jules is struggling with trauma and guilt, tormented by one question: Why was I spared? Quinn is newly released from juvenile detention and returns home to fresh 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 collide, two mysteries edge closer to the truth. All the while, the May Day Killer is still out there—and the clock is racing toward another May 1st.
The Anniversary is an utterly compelling story of the hunt for a serial killer. But it’s also a heartfelt—and heartrending—novel about fate, innocence lost, and two souls who find that sometimes being broken is the only way for the light to get in.
Once a year, on May 1, a brutal attack occurs. For ten consecutive years, fear grips a small town as a serial predator strikes again and again. It all begins in 1992, when the man who becomes known as the May Day Killer changes two lives forever.
For Quinn Riley, a teenager who tries to break up a fight, one terrible decision leads to an arrest and consequences that will follow him for years. For Jules Delaney, survival comes at a steep price after she becomes one of the killer’s victims. Though their experiences are very different, both are forever marked by the events of that fateful day.
As the years pass, Quinn’s and Jules’s lives continue to intersect, particularly as each May 1 anniversary approaches. Along the way, long-buried secrets begin to surface, and new mysteries emerge. With another anniversary drawing near, tensions rise and the stakes grow higher.
Will the May Day Killer finally be identified and brought to justice, or will he continue to terrorize the communities that have lived in fear for a decade?
Alex Finlay delivers a suspenseful thriller filled with twists, secrets, and mounting tension. The annual countdown to May 1 creates a sense of dread that keeps the pages turning, while the intertwined stories of Quinn and Jules add emotional depth to the mystery. The Anniversary is an engaging, fast-paced read that will keep thriller fans guessing until the very end.
Alex Finlay is the author of the 2021 breakout novel, Every Last Fear, the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller, The Night Shift, and the 2023 LibraryReads Hall of Fame recipient, What Have We Done. His work has been an Indie Next pick, a LibraryReads selection, an Amazon Editor’s Best Thriller, as well as a Cosmopolitan, CNN, Newsweek, E!, BuzzFeed, Business Week, Goodreads, Parade, PopSugar, Scribd, and Reader’s Digest best or most anticipated thrillers of the year. Alex’s novels have been translated into twenty-one languages and are sold around the world. All of his novels have been optioned for film and television, and Every Last Fear is in development for a major limited series.
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