Launch Event for Five Funerals by Jeff Somers coming February 22, 2026, from Ruadán Books (https://ruadanbooks.com/product/five-funerals/)
Jeff Somers will be reading from his new novel FIVE FUNERALS and performing for treats.
Date: March 3, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Little City Books, 100 Bloomfield St, Hoboken, NJ 07030; 201-626-7323
SYNOPSIS:
The graduating class of Bishop Carlbus Prep has a secret.
The Outing Party is a tradition at Bishop Carlbus, a semi-illicit party hosted by a senior student after the annual Outing, a weekend field trip taken by the graduating class every year. In 1995, Amy Keaton was determined to host a legendary Outing Party, but everything goes wrong. Her classmates are rude. Someone seems to be sabotaging her plans. And as the night goes on, resentment and rage start driving everyone to extremes. The party spins out of control, and by the next morning Amy Keaton is dead, and twenty-five kids have a soul-crushing secret.
In 2015, six Bishop Carlbus Prep alumnus—Victor, Kate, Leo, Titus, Ida, and Winnie—gather for the funeral of their old high school classmate Zillah. They soon realize that they are now the sole surviving members of the Class of 1995—everyone else who attended Amy Keaton’s Outing Party is dead. And many of those deaths are bizarre and shocking. Sucked dry by leeches. Consumed by mice. Swept out to sea.
The survivors begin piecing together the events of the last two decades, and wonder: Is someone hunting them? Are they next?
And, maybe, do they deserve to be next?