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Case Closed

Bonus: Parents Weekend

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been following along this season, you’ve likely just finished listening to ⁠The Night Shift⁠ by Alex Finlay. In this bonus episode, you’ll get to hear an exclusive excerpt from ⁠Parents Weekend⁠, Alex's newest audiobook. You can buy Parents Weekend⁠⁠ in full here.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Case Closed. If you've been following along this season, you've likely just finished

0:11.3

listening to The Night Shift by Alex Finlay, narrated by Katie McLean, Brittany Presley, Gary Teetaman, and Devin

0:19.8

Hales.

0:22.0

Loved what you heard?

0:29.5

Today we have an early excerpt from Alex's newest audiobook, Parents Weekend, On Sale Now.

0:30.9

Take a listen.

0:37.6

Prologue They run, run with a primal fear knowing that if they slow down, all five of them will die.

0:47.5

It's hard to think in this fog of terror.

0:50.4

Earlier this week, their biggest fears were a mom finding his stash of edibles,

0:55.2

a dad finding those condoms in her dorm room nightstand,

0:58.7

a mom finding her fake ID,

1:01.0

a dad finding his crumpled exam with the D circled in red.

1:05.6

But now, with sand in their shoes, waves crashing, the bonfire burning in the distance,

1:12.5

they leave those trivialities behind, and they run.

1:16.9

They reach the narrow path to the sea cave, link hands in a chain as they navigate the perilous

1:22.1

waves and jagged rocks into the hollow.

1:25.3

Huddled in the gloom, they stay still as stone. Thoughts swirling. They wonder what

1:32.6

clues the police will find. A group chat, the social media posts, the video of the horror

1:39.7

that brought them here. Another wave breaks. Another flashlight beam gets closer. Another whimper escapes a

1:47.8

hand clutching a mouth. What clues will they find? Or will they find nothing but their cold,

1:55.4

lifeless bodies? Friday. Three days earlier.

2:05.2

Chapter 1

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