Thriller Book Club - Until Alison - Featuring Author Kate Russo

The night Alison was murdered, Rachel could have stopped it.

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"Kate Russo reminds us, both perfectly and painfully, of the angst, jealousy, and self-doubt of youth. The strength of Until Alison lies in her ability to bring fury and compassion to both the bullied and the bullies." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Tom Lake
When Rachel Nardelli finds out Alison Petrucci—her childhood rival—is found dead in Pleasant Pond, the same place the two girls had first said goodbye to each other back in eighth grade, the town of Waterbury is outraged by the fear of losing one of their own—the heir to Maine’s largest construction company. But it’s a little more complicated for Rachel. She saw Alison the night she died. Callous, she said something she shouldn’t have. She stirred up the past. The next morning, Alison was gone.
Plagued by the complicated memories around Alison, Rachel joins her journalism crew to investigate the M**der. But as she revisits their fraught relationship, she falls into a web of cruelties that threaten to undo everything she understood about her past. An explosive literary thriller from the acclaimed Kate Russo, Until Alison is a brilliantly incisive and resonant novel that is at once about class, gender, and the arbitrary nature of violence.

Acclaimed author Kate Russo has long wanted to write a novel about the horrors of junior high. Her new novel, UNTIL ALISON (G.P. Putnam’s Sons; On Sale: July 15, 2025) is a brilliantly incisive and resonant literary thriller that explores class, gender, and the arbitrary nature of violence and silence while presenting a coming-of-age story with two fascinating female protagonists and a M**der at its heart.

"Until Alison so vibrantly captures a particular time and place in life—with its nostalgia, its tension, its fine-tuned depiction of class. Kate Russo is a deft and compulsively readable storyteller." —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had and Same As It Ever Was
"Kate Russo reminds us, both perfectly and painfully, of the angst, jealousy, and self-doubt of youth. The strength of Until Alison lies in her ability to bring fury and compassion to both the bullied and the bullies." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Tom Lake

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