End of Story

by A. J. Finn, TBD (Read by)

Overview

For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”

So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective fever.”

“You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.”

Twenty years earlier—on New Year’s Eve 1999—Sebastian’s first wife and teenaged son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past?

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian’s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798212906296
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	02/20/2024
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

#1 New York Times bestselling author A. J. Finn is the author of the global phenomenon The Woman in the Window, which was published in more than forty languages and the basis for the hit film starring Amy Adams. 

Helen Laser is an award-winning NYC-based voice actor and artist. Helen narrates for Audible, Penguin Random House, Tantor, and Hachette, and is the voice of Annie's Homegrown. She has appeared on television, in award-winning films that have graced the festival circuit worldwide, and in various stage performances. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, a published writer, an appreciator of all things spooky, and likes to paint and play various instruments, including auto-harp, accordion, ukulele, and clarinet.

Marin Ireland is a voice artist who has won five Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for Best Female Narration in 2020. She is an award-winning actress known for her starring role in the Broadway show Reasons to Be Pretty, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She has appeared in a number of off-Broadway shows and television series, including Homeland, Unforgettable, The Killing, The Following, and others.

Editorial Reviews

Elegant, absorbing, full of Hitchcockian menace. Once again Finn reinvents the genre in spectacular style.”
— Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment

“A. J. Finn’s new novel is beautiful, intense, beguiling. I was mesmerized by End of Story.”
— Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True

“A thrillingly Gothic golden age mystery to lose yourself in." — Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Skies

“Literary magic – a mystery lover’s delight . . . Absorbing, stylish, and sparkling with quick wit . . . reminds you of something so utterly essential about a truly masterful mystery – that the end is just the beginning.”
— Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest

“Fans of detective fiction will be thrilled by Finn’s latest!”
— Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying

“There’s something irresistible about this made-for-the-movies tingler. Finn knows how to pleasurably wind us up.”  — USA Today on The Woman in the Window

“The rocket fuel propelling The Woman in the Window… is expertise. . . . Dear other books with unreliable narrators: This one will see you and raise you.”  — New York Times Book Review on The Woman in the Window

“Superior.” — New Yorker on The Woman in the Window

“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.”  — Washington Post on The Woman in the Window

“The Woman in the Window is a tour de force. A twisting, twisted odyssey inside one woman’s mind, her illusions, delusions, reality. It left my own mind reeling and my heart pounding. An absolutely gripping thriller.”  — Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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