Four friends solve the decades-old murder of their best friend with the help of a drug that can not only bring them back to the past, but change it.

THE MIDNIGHT CLUB
by Margot Harrison
Graydon House, September 2024
(via Context Literary Agency)

Sonia Toller will never forget the night in college when her brilliant, troubled friend Jennet drowned. And she will never forgive herself for what she was doing that night: kissing Jennet’s boyfriend.

So when she receives an invitation to an exclusive reunion in her Vermont college town, twenty-five years after Jennet’s death, she seizes on it as a chance to get her derailed life back on track. The circle of college friends reunites to find out what really happened to Jennet that May night in 1989.

They have one extraordinary advantage: their host has found a method to not only help them remember, but re-experience, what they forgot. It’s called sog, smells like pine, and local kids have been using it for decades to see the past in glorious detail.

But every one of the reunited friends has something to hide, Sonia most of all. Unsettling, unearthed memories support their host’s theory—that Jennet was murdered.

Maybe even by one of their own.

Margot Harrison has an impressive TikTok following of thousands of readers, mostly people there for Gen X nostalgia (retro book reviews, childhood memories). She is the author of the YA novels Only She Came Back (Hachette 2023), We Made It All Up (Hachette 2022), The Glare (Hachette 2020), and The Killer In Me (Hachette 2016). This is her first adult novel.