PARENTS WEEKEND by Outlier Alex Finlay Review
- D. P. Lyle
- 3 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Pub Date: 5-6-25
It’s parents weekend at a prestigious university in the San Francisco Bay Area. A much anticipated time for family and student celebrations. The beautiful and the powerful gather. A woman high up the US State Department, complete with her no nonsense security detail; a philandering doctor and his wife; a high-powered attorney fresh off a high-profile and controversial verdict, and other members of privileged society. A student drowns under odd circumstances, casting a chill over the festivities. Worse, five students fail to show up for the parent-student dinner. As the police, the FBI, and other agencies search for the students, family secrets and intrigues float to the surface. Who can you trust, who should you fear? What will the privileged do to protect themselves, and their own? PARENTS WEEKEND is fast-paced, clever, and hits all the right notes. Do not miss this one.
Alex Finlay is the bestselling author of the 2021 breakout novel, Every Last Fear, the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery and Thriller, The Night Shift, the 2023 Library Reads Hall of Fame recipient, What Have We Done, and his latest release, the USA Today bestseller, If Something Happens to Me. Alex’s novels are regularly on "best of the year" lists, have been translated into twenty-five languages, and have been optioned for film or television. Every Last Fear is in development for a major limited series, and his upcoming May 2025 release, Parents Weekend has already been acquired for film. Alex lives in Washington, DC and Virginia.
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Bestselling author Alex Finlay offers this course on practical tips to make your manuscript sing. Early in his writing career, Alex interviewed nearly 100 bestselling writers – Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Lisa Gardner, among others – about their “rules” of writing. Along the way, he realized that many literary legends identified some of the same rules. This course distills those bestsellers’ rules into 10 practical tips – things you can do to immediately improve your manuscript. This course is not about “big picture” advice, but small, yet important, things you can implement right away to add a final professional touch, and ensure your manuscript is ready for an agent or editor’s eyes.
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