The Prank

A picture torn from Playboy magazine, a missing Swiss Army Knife, and a prank gone terribly wrong conspire to make Christmas 1968 a deadly holiday.

In a small Central New York town, two mismatched souls forge an unlikely and ill-advised friendship over the Christmas school break. One is a charming if volatile thirteen-year-old sociopath named Jimmy Steuben. The other is his seventh-grade English teacher, twenty-four-year-old Patti Finch. She's reeling in the aftermath of the accidental deat...