Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben-with a Serial-esque podcast twist-an absorbing, addictive story of psychological suspense from the writer from the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning Brenna Spector series.

For thirteen days in 1976, adolescent murderers April Cooper and Gabriel LeRoy terrorized Southern California’s Inland Empire, getting rid of a dozen victims before about Under no circumstances Look Back: A Book perishing themselves in a fire… or did they? A lot more than 40 years later, twentysomething podcast producer Quentin Garrison blames his stressed upbringing over the murders. And after a shocking message from a resource, he has cause to believe Apr Cooper may be alive. In the mean time, New York City film columnist Robin Diamond is dealing with rising doubts about her spouse and terrifying threats from internet trolls. But that’s nothing compared to the outrageous telephone call she gets from Quentin… and a brutal house invasion that makes her query everything she ever thought in. Is usually Robin’s beloved mother a mass murderer? Is there anyone she can trust?

Told through the eye of these destroyed from the Inland Empire Killings-including Robin, Quentin, and a fifteen-year-old Apr Cooper-Never Look Back asks the issue:

How well carry out we really understand our parents, our partners-and ourselves?