After Nightfall

by A. J. Banner

Overview

From the bestselling author of The Good Neighbor comes a gripping thriller about an engagement party gone fatally awry.

Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone’s evening. After an awful night, your friend’s battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff.

Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare. She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she can’t shake the image of her friend lying dead on the beach. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did she take a purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers, Marissa digs deep into the events of the party. But what she remembers happening after nightfall now carries sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she investigates, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her friends, the man she once trusted, and even herself.

Bestselling author A. J. Banner keeps readers on a razor-sharp edge in this intricately plotted novel of psychological suspense…in which nothing is as it seems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781503949249
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Born in India and raised in North America, A. J. Banner received degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous novels of psychological suspense include The Good Neighbor and The Twilight Wife, a USA Today bestseller. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and six rescued cats. Visit www.ajbanner.com.

Editorial Reviews

06/18/2018
Marissa Parlette, the narrator of this gripping psychological thriller from Banner (The Twilight Wife), is upset to see Lauren Eklund, her best friend from childhood with whom she’s had a fraught recent past, blatantly flirting with her fiancé, Nathan Black, at Nathan’s 40th birthday party at his clifftop house in Tranquil Cove, an upscale community on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. The next morning, Marissa is shocked to find Lauren’s body at the bottom of the cliff. When Lauren’s death is ruled suspicious, Marissa begins looking for who might have had motive to push her off it. Marissa soon becomes suspicious of just about everyone connected to Lauren, including Nathan. She’s frustrated when the lead detective refuses to share with her information germane to the investigation, or to provide feedback on the information she shares with him. At her peril, Marissa persists in searching for the truth. Well-laid clues allow the reader to sleuth along with the dogged Marissa. Agent: Paige Wheeler, Creative Media Agency. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

[A] gripping psychological thriller…Well-laid clues allow the reader to sleuth along…” —Publishers Weekly

“[A] compelling psychological suspense with a strong Pacific Northwest setting.” —The Seattle Times

“In After Nightfall, A. J. Banner has created an elegant and taut psychological thriller that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat until the final page.” —Authorlink

“After Nightfall is a chilling drama…Well-fleshed out characters keep the reader wondering just what is going on…” —New York Journal of Books

“A fast-paced, suspenseful whodunit that will keep you reading long into the night. If you love a well-written, intelligent, psychological thriller, this is the book for you! I highly recommend it.” —Book Review Crew

“We tore through the pages of After Nightfall, a masterful thriller that's twisty in the very best way. A. J. Banner will keep you guessing until the final sentence, with an ending so shocking you’ll be gasping for breath.” —Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, bestselling authors of The Good Widow

“After Nightfall is a chilling and fast-paced whodunit with a cast of characters who will keep you guessing who to trust until the very end. Get ready for a twisty, suspenseful read. A. J. Banner has done it again!” —Kaira Rouda, USA Today bestselling author of Best Day Ever

“Gripping and arresting! After Nightfall is a stellar psychological thriller. Banner had me second-guessing every character throughout the entire novel. I literally couldn’t figure out who’d done it until the reveal. And it was shocking. Love that!” —Kerry Lonsdale, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

“Moody and beautifully atmospheric, After Nightfall is a psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the final page, the final sentence even, a heart-stopping revelation. I highly recommend it!” —Barbara Taylor Sissel, bestselling author of Faultlines and The Truth We Bury

“After Nightfall is a moody, haunting thriller that masterfully explores the complex dynamics of fractured families, fractured marriages, and fractured friendships. This book grabbed me from the opening scene and kept me frantically turning pages until the shocking final chapter. A. J. Banner’s best book yet!” —Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author of The Party

“A. J. Banner keeps the pages turning with this twisty thriller that strikes right at the heart of our closest relationships.” —Wendy Walker, bestselling author of Emma in the Night

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