Marisha Pessl

When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.

Beatrice Hartley and her friends were the cool kids at Darrow-Harker School. The shocking death of Jim-- their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend-- changed everything. A year after graduation the group returns to Wincroft, and Beatrice has questions about Jim's death. A mysterious man knocks on the door and announces that time for them has become stuck. They are in the Neverworld Wake, where fears are physical and memories come alive. Only one...