Dear Future Me

By Deborah O'Connor

Book Overview

"This is a winner."--Publishers Weekly

"Suspenseful and thought-provoking. I will read whatever O'Connor writes next - she is the talent of a generation and this is the perfect book group thriller."- Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time and Just Another Missing Person

You never know what will happen when you try to rewrite the past...

In 2003, Mr. Danler's high school class got an assignment to write letters to their future selves. Twenty years later, they receive them in the mail.

Upon opening them, the students are shocked to find that their envelopes contain old secrets that threaten to expose the truth about the tragic death of one of their classmates. And when one letter makes the beautiful and successful Miranda jump off a cliff to her death, the small community is rocked to its core.

Stunned by what has happened and armed with a clue of her own, Miranda's best-friend Audrey decides to track down her old classmates to get to the bottom of Miranda's death. And in doing so, she sets off a chain of events that could expose the truth not just about one untimely death, but two.

From bestselling author Deborah O'Connor comes a searing thriller that exposes the grief, guilt, and secrets that riddle a small town, uncovering the far-reaching consequences of a decades-old tragedy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146423468X
• ISBN13: 9781464234682
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The past will always catch up!

I too had a letter to be opened twenty years after I graduated, so I thought the idea of this book was really cool. Mine did not lead to suicide, murder, or dark secrets revealed like the ones in this story did though. It does make for a thrilling read with the bits of letters from the various former students, comparing their hopes and dreams back when they were teens and how close or far it was to the reality in which they are actually in. And I loved traveling with Audrey as she went on the hunt for why Miranda (her best friend) would have killed herself after receiving that letter she wrote to her future self. I really liked Audrey! She did not get the dream mentioned in her letter and instead took care of her baby brother after their parents died when she was just 18 and Ned was 2. She remains optimistic and willing helps out with Miranda's kids. I would definitely want her as a friend! And it is quite the can of worms Audrey opens in finding the truth both about Miranda's death and Ben's that happened 20 years ago. It was nicely fast paced and so many red herrings and suspects that it was easy to keep reading. I will say, I did not expect that ending and twist but it makes sense how someone would go to those lengths, sad but true. I really good thriller that has a good mix of people who are decent no matter their circumstances, and others that will do anything to get what they want, or are driven to meet high standards at the cost of others. A nicely twisty story!