Always the first to die

R. J. Jacobs

Book - 2022

"For fans of Riley Sager with a classic slasher twist, Always the First to Die follows a former horror movie actress as she returns to the set of her most iconic film, only to find that the strange circumstances begin to resemble the plot of her most famous film. After her husband's death, Lexi has refused to return to the Pinecrest Estate on the Florida Keys, too many hard memories on that strip of land. Memories of meeting her husband on the set of an iconic horror movie. Of being cast as an extra, of watching herself get killed on screen. And of scoffing at the rumors of the Pinecrest Estate "curse," until she witnessed a cast member die that very summer. But when her daughter sneaks away to visit her grandfather, leg...endary horror movie director Rick Plummer, Lexi is forced to face her past. That's when a Category Four hurricane changes course, and hits the southern coast. Unable to get through to her daughter, Lexi drives to the Keys in the wake of the storm. What she finds is an island without cell service, without power, and with limited police presence. A desolate bit of land, with only a few remaining behind: the horror director, the starlet once cast as the final girl, the young teenager searching for clues of her father, the mother determined to get off the island, and...the person picking them off one-by-one. Soon enough Lexi's life begins to resemble Rick's most famous horror film, and she must risk her life to save her daughter before someone, or something, destroys them all"--

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Subjects
Genres
Horror fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels
Published
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark [2022].
Language
English
Main Author
R. J. Jacobs (author)
Item Description
Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 281-287).
Physical Description
287 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781728254074
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

As a teenager more than 25 years ago, widowed librarian Lexi Kennedy, the narrator of this solid mystery from Jacobs (And Then You Were Gone), had a bit part in Breathless, an iconic horror film directed by Rick Plummer at his Pinecrest Estate in Key West, Fla. Lexi met her future husband, Cam, who was Rick's son, on the set. The reputation that Breathless gained of being cursed after several people died during filming only added to the movie's popularity. Now estranged from Rick, whom she blames for Cam's death, Lexi is appalled because Rick is filming a sequel. Despite Lexi forbidding it, her 17-year-old daughter, Quinn, sneaks away to be in the movie being shot at Rick's estate. Lexi tears out in the middle of the night to go to Quinn's rescue. Jacobs makes good use of traditional horror tropes--things that go bump in the night, dark rooms, a creepy mansion, and no phone service--while convincingly showing Florida before and after a category-four hurricane. Horror film buffs will want to check this one out. Agent: Rachel Ekstrom, Folio Literary Management. (Sept.)

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