Another YA (imo) novel where the main story (taking place 10 years prior) concerns 17-year olds in a small town. These kids are in their 20s now, Christmas is coming and Madeleine Miller’s bookstore is busy. A pod-cast creator and star has come to town to interview the people involved in that old cold case murder which is what happened 10 years prior. Madeleine was the only surviver.

Christmas Presents  
by Lisa Unger 
10/24/2023
Read by Jennifer Pickens, 5h 39m
Rating: 4/10 (generally poor),  mystery-romance, thriller (YA) 

The results of the case back then were that one young man, Evan Handy, went to jail and he was declared the perpetrator of the murders that night and, by default,  of the three other girls who went missing during that general time period.  (There are many who question this, but could Evan be innocent?)

The major players, Madeleine especially, have to relive the horror in interviews, so the story goes back and forth between time periods.  In the original events Madeleine is the sole survivor, out of a group of ten or so.  Her father was the sheriff then but is now very diminished but at home with a caretaker . Madeline has not made a good life for her in the intervening years, she dropped out of college and now works in a bookstore and as a stripper at night.