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October 24, 2022

FACE THE NIGHT is a BookLife Prize Semi-Finalist

Face the Night is a BookLife Prize Semi-Finalist

The 2022 BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly announced their semi-finalists this morning and Alan Lastufka‘s debut novel, Face the Night, was on the list!

For the semi-finalist round, twenty-five titles were chosen from the thousands of novels BookLife reviews each year. Five titles were chosen from each of the five genre categories. Face the Night was among the five Mystery/Thriller titles selected.

The BookLife Prize winner will be announced December 16th.

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