How to Survive Your Murder

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying young adult horror novel from New York Times bestselling scream queen Danielle Valentine.

"This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun!" —R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street


Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial.

And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister’s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior.

Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each other’s best friends.

Until Claire was taken away from her.

On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.

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320 pages

Average rating: 7.11

35 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

ellieluvs2read
Mar 02, 2025
7/10 stars
3.5/5. What the absolute heck??????? This book made me so mad. First I was bored, then I was confused, now I’m just mad. This books ends on a cliffhanger but there’s no plans for a second one?! No way. Even the bonus scene was a cliffhanger!!! This book all around has my brain frazzled!
MaggieParedes
Feb 10, 2025
6/10 stars
I had high hopes for this one, and while I did enjoy some parts of the authors, writing style, this book was mostly boring for me.
Anonymous
Jul 18, 2024
8/10 stars
The book was great! Well written, the ending annoyed me lol!
Delaney_K02
Nov 13, 2023
9/10 stars
It was a good book. The plot was good, and it kept you guessing who the killer was.
Anonymous
Aug 19, 2023
4/10 stars
was way better until that ending. also there’s a really easy and obvious way to tell what’s going on like halfway through the book. the dialogue was cringey at times too

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