Publication Date: June 24, 2025
When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself.
Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the “second sight” foretold by family legend and fulfill her destiny. Instead, the swamp serves up dangers greater than the gators lurking on Halfway Creek. Little Francie Farrow vanishes—and Jennifer’s father goes to prison.
Twenty years later, Jennifer has almost shed the label of Paul Jones’s daughter when her past comes barreling back. Inspired by True Events, a TV series that solves the unsolvable, is recreating that fateful summer. As the series plays out, Jennifer wonders: Did the show finally find Francie Farrow? And is Jennifer’s father truly guilty?
Someone else wants answers even more than Jennifer does, and they won’t let her forget it.
As the series nears its finale and the long-awaited truth, Jennifer must come to terms with who her family is…and what that makes her.
After two decades, a true crime television show is telling the story that changed Jennifer’s life.
The disappearance of young Francie Farrow that fateful summer and the subsequent arrest of Jennifer’s father left many unanswered questions that the television crew aims to resolve.
With The Final Episode, author Lori Roy packs plenty of twists in a well-constructed crime thriller. The storyline unfolds alongside episodes that recreate events from the past, alternating with Jennifer’s first-person narrative.
As the truth emerges, all eyes are focused on seeking clues to verify what really happened to Francie. The spotlight shines on young friendships examined through adult perspectives.
The Final Episode sets the stage for secrets to unravel in a shocking but oh-so-satisfying way.
Lori Roy’s debut novel, Bent Road, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Her work has been twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book and has been included on various “best of” and summer reading lists. Until She Comes Home was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
Let Me Die in His Footsteps was included among the top fiction books of 2015 by Books-A-Million and named one of the best fifteen mystery novels of 2015 by Oline Cogdill. The novel also received the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, making Roy the first woman to receive an Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel—and only the third person ever to have done so.
Roy lives with her family in West Central Florida.
