Eight friends went on a trip. Only six came back. Now a killer has one night to make sure the survivors pay for what they did . . . so that zero make it out alive.
Sadie, Will, Isla, Anthony, Emily, and Charlie are survivors. They were the six (out of eight) to return from a ski holiday turned nightmare two years ago. Although… nobody knows exactly what happened; the details hushed up via the wealth and connections of Sadie’s rich parents.
When an exclusive private island with a mansion for rent goes viral on social media, their graduating class persuades Sadie to rent it for the weekend. The six arrive first via helicopter and wait for the rest of their classmates to join them via boat the next day.
But nobody ever comes.
Cut off from the rest of the world with no cell service and no means off the island, paranoia and terror mount as they start to be picked off one by one by an unseen killer. Their past has finally caught up with them, and they’ll need to figure out who is killing them before they all wind up dead.
A 2026 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2027 Lincoln Award Nominee
A Junior Library Guild Fall 2025 Selection
“This psychological thriller will leave the reader gasping for air”
— Booklist starred review
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⭐️ “This psychological thriller will leave the reader gasping for air”
― Booklist (starred review)“Cranking up the tension and sense of creeping dread... [THIS IS WHERE WE DIE is] a chilling and suspense-filled tragedy.”
― Kirkus“[THIS IS WHERE WE DIE] is full of twists and red herrings, with a satisfying conclusion readers won’t see coming... This fast-paced mystery belongs on library shelves.”
― School Library Journal“[A] cutting thriller... Themes of revenge, heightened by passionate emotion and complex relationship dynamics, contribute to the novel’s mounting tension and... claustrophobic atmosphere.”
― Publishers Weekly“An absolutely wild ride, a modern take on Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None like you've never read.”
― Liz Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas series“A devious, page-turning thriller full of terrible teens doing terrible things.”
― Alexa Donne, Edgar Award–nominated author of Pretty Dead Queens & The Ivies
“Wickedly funny, delightfully chilling… I devoured it in one sitting and immediately added it back to my TBR to read again.”
― Dana Mele, author of People Like Us and Summer’s Edge
“A locked room thriller at its finest. This twisted slasher tale…had me questioning absolutely everything and everyone.”
― Trish Lundy, author of The One That Got Away with Murder
“Delightfully twisty and deliciously twisted…with breathtaking pacing, high-stakes drama, and dark humor that made me laugh out loud even when I still had the chills from a gruesome reveal the page before. I’m already itching to read this again.”
― Meredith Adamo, author of Not Like Other Girls
“A stunningly fresh and modern twist on the locked room murder mystery that will leave readers reeling. I inhaled this dark, chilling, and incredibly suspenseful read in one sitting.”
― Kelsea Yu, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of It’s Only a Game and Bound Feet
“An unputdownable, whip-smart take on Agatha Christie.”
― MK Pagano, author of Girls Who Burn -
A 2026 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2027 Lincoln Award Nominee
A Junior Library Guild Fall 2025 Selection
A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction 2025
A 2026 TAYSHAS Reading List Book -
ISBN: 9781728293424
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication date: July 1, 2025
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years