Every Last Fear: A Novel

Explosive! A knife-edged thriller that explores the true meaning of family, including love, loyalty, and lies." Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author They found the bodies on a Tuesday. So begins Every Last Fear, a twisty and breathtaking novel from Alex Finlay that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire familyhis mom, his dad, his little brother and sisterhave been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certainand they wont tell Matt why. The tragedy makes headlines everywhere because this isnt the first time the Pine family has been thrust into the media spotlight. Matts older brother, Dannycurrently serving a life sentence for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Charlottewas the subject of a viral true crime documentary suggesting that Danny was wrongfully convicted. Though the country has rallied behind Danny, Matt holds a secret about his brother that hes never told anyone: the night Charlotte was killed Matt saw something that makes him believe his brother is guilty of the crime. When Matt returns to his small hometown to bury his parents and siblings, hes faced with a hostile community that was villainized by the documentary, a frenzied media, and memories hed hoped to leave behind forever. Now, as the deaths in Mexico appear increasingly suspicious and connected to Dannys case, Matt must unearth the truth behind the crime that sent his brother to prisonputting his own life in periland forcing him to confront his every last fear. Told through multiple points-of-view and alternating between past and present, Alex Finlay's Every Last Fear is not only a page-turning thriller, its also a poignant story about a family managing heartbreak and tragedy, and living through a fame they never wanted.