In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley Winstead.
I buddy read this book with one of the members in my book group, Between The Chapters, on Goodreads.
Synopsis
Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has been invited back to her university for a reunion and she is obsessed with dazzling everyone with her beauty and success. This time when they see her, it has to be perfect because she is perfect. 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 there’s more at stake than the delicious envy of her peers—not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. In fact, someone has orchestrated the whole weekend to trap the real killer. As the weekend unfolds and they get closer to the truth, the group finds there was more than murder hidden amongst them on campus.
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 millennial thriller you won’t be able to put down. A solidly written, well paced thriller genre read.
My Review
This book is definitely a page turning, suspenseful read with a story told through the use of multiple narrators and dual timelines. This book kept me guessing and trying to figure out who the killer was and made me suspicious of several possible guilty unreliable narrators. The narrators are clearly identified for the reader, so there is not an issue with knowing who the protagonist is in the current chapter you are reading.
The ending threw in an extra plot twist and I can't say too much so as not to spoil the ending for when you read it.
My Rating: 4/5
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Book Details
Author: Ashley Winstead.
Publisher: Harper Collins.
Publication Date: August 3, 2021.
Genre: Thriller. Suspense. Mystery. Fiction. Psychological Thriller. Crime.
Edition: Paperback.
Pages: 368.