In My Dreams I Hold a Knife: A Novel

Ashley Winstead

Mar 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Vanessa Johansson

About this audiobook

Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see-confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby's murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she'd been closest to since freshman year. But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather's murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night-and the years' worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden. Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive story.

Ratings and reviews

I had to try to ignore the “Jesus Freaks” comment in one of the earlier chapters to give this a fair review…. But it was interesting. The story caught me by surprise and was pretty funny in some moments. A little dark at times but wasn’t dominating the entire plot.

About the author

Ashley Winstead directs communications for a national philanthropy. She holds a PhD in contemporary American literature and a BA in English and art history. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Vanessa Johansson is a film/theater actress and voice-over artist who graduated from Carnegie Mellon and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, she has recorded approximately sixty audiobooks.