Nerve

When reporter Taylor Sullivan is sent to her hometown to cover a recent murder, all she wants is to write the story and avoid Ben Caldwell, her childhood best friend. The town holds too many memories she’s tried to forget.

Then another teenager dies.

Taylor can’t just write the story and leave—she has to find out who’s behind it. But the locals don’t make it easy. One detective harasses her, the other refuses to intervene. At the elite private school that Taylor remembers all too well, students whisper about who’s next—who’s pretty enough to die. The school principal is hiding something. And the killer is only getting bolder.

As the victims shift from teenagers to adults close to the investigation, Taylor is in danger. She knows that in a town like this, trusting the wrong person doesn’t just shatter you—it can kill you.

Taut, haunting, and richly atmospheric, NERVE is more than a whodunnit—it’s a portrait of what it means to be a woman in a world that would rather keep you quiet. The question is: will Taylor write the truth, even about what happened all those years ago?

Just don’t read it home alone.

For readers of Chelsea Bieker, Tana French, and Gillian Flynn.