Riverstone Books and Mystery Lovers Bookshop are excited to bring you Alex Finlay! He will be joining us to talk about his upcoming release, The Anniversary.
Doors will open at 5:30pm, the event will start at 6:00pm.
Every Book Bundle and Book Bundle+1 ticket will include one, signed, hardcover copy of The Anniversary and will be available for pick-up at check-in for the event. General admission tickets do not include a book.
Additional copies will be available for sale at the event plus a limited number of copies of previous titles.
For those who wish, you will be able to get your book personalized after the event. You may get up to three books signed and one book personalized. This can include books book brought from home. All books purchased from Riverstone at the event will be pre-signed.
Your email confirmation will serve as your ticket. You may print it out and bring it or show us the confirmation on your phone at check-in.
Event tickets are non-refundable within 7 days before the event (5/9 and later).
Ticketholders unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their books at either store location or have it shipped to them for $5.95. We will hold books for up to 4 weeks after the event. After 4 weeks, unclaimed books will no longer be available. We will send out an email to absentees to coordinate which store you would like to pick it up at or if you would like it shipped.
This ticketed event will take place at the Hampton Community Center (3200 Lochner Wy, Allison Park, PA 15101). The facility has a large parking lot.
About the book:
Every May 1st, a serial killer stalks a small town. Every year he comes for them . . .
On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other.
Jules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer—a predator who strikes every May 1st and then vanishes without a trace. Quinn, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested the same night after trying to break up a fight and nearly killing someone.
By morning, their lives are forever connected.
A year later, Jules is haunted by trauma and guilt, tormented by one question: Why was she spared? Quinn is newly released from juvenile detention and returns home to devastating news—the unsolved murder of his mother.
Over the next decade, their lives are revisited on a single day each year: May 1st.
As the years pass, secrets surface, lies unravel, and the paths of Jules and Quinn draw closer together. Two mysteries edge toward the truth—what really happened the night Jules was attacked, and who murdered Quinn’s mother? All the while, the May Day Killer is still out there.
And the clock is racing toward another anniversary.
Twisty, high-concept, and emotionally charged, The Anniversary is an addictive murder mystery and nail-biting thriller—but it’s also a tender, heartrending story about fate, innocence lost, and two people bound by a single day. With its masterful structure and propulsive tension, The Anniversary reaffirms Alex Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today.
About the author:
Alex Finlay is the bestselling author of several acclaimed novels, including the 2025 instant national bestseller, Parents Weekend. His work regularly appears on best-of-the-year lists and has been translated into twenty-seven languages and sold around the world. Alex’s books have been optioned or in development for film and television, including Parents Weekend, which was recently acquired for adaptation to the screen. Alex is a director of the thriller/mystery section of the Leopardi Writing Conference in Italy, and a board member of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. He lives in Washington, D.C.