"Russo’s sophomore novel and thriller debut is a thought-provoking and incisive treatise on the sum of a life’s choices, the crippling and long-term effects of bullying, and the general dangers of being a woman . . . [F]or readers who enjoy intense suspense novels with unreliable narrators, such as those by Stacey Willingham and Paula Hawkins." —Booklist
"Until Alison so vibrantly captures a particular time and place in life—with its nostalgia, its tension, its fine-tuned depiction of class. Kate Russo is a deft and compulsively readable storyteller." —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had and Same As It Ever Was
"Kate Russo reminds us, both perfectly and painfully, of the angst, jealousy, and self-doubt of youth. The strength of Until Alison lies in her ability to bring fury and compassion to both the bullied and the bullies." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Tom Lake
"Until Alison is a powerful and wrenching mystery that claws through the polite facade of the traditional campus novel. Kate Russo has delivered a fierce and furious story about the cruelty of youth that is empowering, heartbreaking, and thrilling in equal measure." —Ivy Pochoda, award-winning author of Sing Her Down and Ecstasy
"Is silence violence? That’s the question that propels Kate Russo’s gripping and incisive new novel set on a perfectly rendered college campus. Suffused with sexuality and the potent brew of class and gender, Until Alison expertly explores the moral complexity at the heart of a missing girl case." —Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year
"Instantly earning a place in the canon of dead girl college campus novels, Kate Russo’s Until Alison is a chillingly readable tale about adolescent cruelty, popularity, and class. When the body of her former classmate, Alison, is discovered at a local swimming hole, Rachel Nardelli embarks on a reluctant exhumation of their friendship, capturing in forensic detail the horrors of eighth-grade rivalry, and how far teenagers will go in the name of self-preservation. Exposing the tension between the crimes we commit in our youth and the people we become as adults, Until Alison is a masterclass in middle school angst." —Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines
"The perfect challenge to the sepia-toned escapism of your standard campus murder-mystery. The cruelties and compromises of youth and the menace of rape culture are under the magnifying glass in this bold, confronting thriller." —Kate Weinberg, author of The Truants and There’s Nothing Wrong with Her
