The Final Girl Support Group
Lynnette Tarkington survived the night that should have killed her, and she has spent the sixteen years since making sure it never happens again. She is a "final girl," one of a handful of women who lived through massacres so infamous they inspired hit horror movies, and for more than a decade she and five others have met in a quiet Los Angeles support group led by their therapist, Dr. Carol, to keep their trauma at bay.
Then one of the group fails to show, and Lynnette realizes with dread that someone is hunting them, someone who knows each woman's history intimately and is picking the survivors off one by one. Paranoid, heavily armed, and trusting no one, Lynnette goes on the run, convinced the threat is closer to the group than any of them wants to admit. To survive, these women will have to stop being victims and prove exactly why they were the ones left standing.
Grady Hendrix's The Final Girl Support Group is a fast, knowing thriller that loves and interrogates the slasher canon, from Halloween to Nightmare on Elm Street. Beneath the propulsive chase it asks a serious question about what our culture does to the women it turns into entertainment, and what survival really costs.
A guarded, hyper-vigilant final girl who becomes convinced someone is hunting her support group.
The audiobook is narrated by Adrienne King, who is widely recognized as the original final girl from the first Friday the 13th film.
The author was inspired by a scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors where a survivor of the first film leads a therapy session for other victims, which sparked his interest in the long-term aftermath of surviving a slasher movie.