

Thriller
You Belong Here
Repeat author
Early Release
by Megan Miranda
Quick take
Years after fleeing her alma mater in disgrace, a woman returns to campus in search of her vanished daughter.
Good to know
Slow build
Nonlinear timeline
Creepy
Academic
Synopsis
Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Her roots there were strong: Beckett’s parents taught at the college, and she never even imagined studying anywhere else—until a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again…
For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. But deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that the past isn’t the only dangerous thing in town…
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Eerie, dark academia vibes: think mysterious woods, creepy rituals, and students who are up to no good.
Plots that are twisty, complex, and hard to predict.
A crime novel with complicated relationships at its heart—between mothers and daughters, towns and colleges, or long-lost friends.