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THIS WILL BE THE END OF ME
A novel
A mind-bending locked-room mystery where every suspect is the same man - and so is the corpse.
Joshua Hoffman is throwing a weekend-long party at his remote lakeside home with nine alternate versions of himself - other selves who made different choices at various crossroads in Joshua Hoffman's life and ended up in wildly different circumstances.
To distinguish themselves from one another, they adopt nicknames. Among them are: The Argentinian, who fled his dreary hometown for a life of luxury in South America; The Townie, who stayed behind to marry his high school crush; The Marksman, a single father struggling to raise his troubled daughter; The Director, a Hollywood filmmaker facing an embarrassing end to his career; and The Teacher, a man of faith and moral duty who unknowingly carries a dark secret.
Some of the Joshua Hoffmans have gained fame and fortune, others have embraced the stability of family life. But over the course of the weekend, all of them will uncover deep wells of existential doubt and unhappiness as they reckon with what might have been. And when one of the Joshua Hoffmans turns up dead - brutally strangled in an upstairs bedroom - the others must confront a horrifying truth: a killer is among them.
As the violence escalates and the bodies pile up - stabbed, drowned, and burned alive - paranoia tears the group apart. Which Joshua Hoffman wants to kill his other selves, and why? Desperate to survive until the end of the weekend, they interrogate, accuse, and attack each other. When every suspect looks just like the others, finding the murderer is next to impossible.
Jared Young's body of work spans books, magazines, and feature films. He is the author of the novel Into The Current, which was longlisted for the ReLit Award in 2016. As a creative director, his brand and campaign work has won international recognition. Jared also publishes Tolstoyan, a Substack newsletter about culture, literature, and philosophy. His essay "YOUTH," about the regrets of middle-age, recently went viral. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec, with his wife and two children.
To distinguish themselves from one another, they adopt nicknames. Among them are: The Argentinian, who fled his dreary hometown for a life of luxury in South America; The Townie, who stayed behind to marry his high school crush; The Marksman, a single father struggling to raise his troubled daughter; The Director, a Hollywood filmmaker facing an embarrassing end to his career; and The Teacher, a man of faith and moral duty who unknowingly carries a dark secret.
Some of the Joshua Hoffmans have gained fame and fortune, others have embraced the stability of family life. But over the course of the weekend, all of them will uncover deep wells of existential doubt and unhappiness as they reckon with what might have been. And when one of the Joshua Hoffmans turns up dead - brutally strangled in an upstairs bedroom - the others must confront a horrifying truth: a killer is among them.
As the violence escalates and the bodies pile up - stabbed, drowned, and burned alive - paranoia tears the group apart. Which Joshua Hoffman wants to kill his other selves, and why? Desperate to survive until the end of the weekend, they interrogate, accuse, and attack each other. When every suspect looks just like the others, finding the murderer is next to impossible.
Jared Young's body of work spans books, magazines, and feature films. He is the author of the novel Into The Current, which was longlisted for the ReLit Award in 2016. As a creative director, his brand and campaign work has won international recognition. Jared also publishes Tolstoyan, a Substack newsletter about culture, literature, and philosophy. His essay "YOUTH," about the regrets of middle-age, recently went viral. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec, with his wife and two children.
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