You're Only Dead

**FINALIST FOR THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS FICTION AWARD** **Recommended****reading by _Nylon, Buzzfeed, Vulture, Lit Hub, Chicago Review of Books_ and _Chicago Reader_** **"****With this novel, Hunter establishes herself as an unforgettable voice in American letters. Her work here, as ever, is un

When a mysterious gunman takes a class hostage, the rest of Mia's school is evacuated. But Mia is determined to stay behind. She knows it's a life or death situation but there's something she fears more than dying. Mia thinks she might know who the gunman is, and, if she's right, then she may be the

John Tait finds his wife and son missing when he returns from a business trip to his home in a peaceful Northumberland village. Anxiety turns to fear and dread when he receives a late-night phone call, one that re-awakens memories of terrible events ten years earlier in Slovakia and Ukraine. On a st