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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Jeff Hoffmann

Latest Title: Like it Never Happened
Like it Never Happened

Decades ago, four friends concealed a deadly secret–but not all lies stay buried in this psychological suspense for fans of Ashley Winstead and Alison Gaylin.

Thirty years ago, Tommy, Malcolm, Henry, and Kevin were best friends graduating high school, brothers almost, until the night they did something terrible. The decision to keep hidden what they did in that parking lot shattered their friendship and warped their lives. But when Kevin, struggling with a heroin addiction, drives his motorcycle into the side of a truck, the other three find themselves together again—at Kevin’s funeral.

When they meet Kevin’s wife Naomi at the wake, they can tell that she knows everything, and when they learn that she’s a reporter, they’re terrified. When she sends them to visit one of their victims from that night—at the nursing home where he’s been suffering for decades—they do as they’re told, even though they know it won’t stop there.

After watching her husband pay a steep price for keeping the friends’ secret, Naomi has crafted a plan to make Tommy, Malcolm, and Henry pay their fair share. When the three men decide to fight back, they’re forced to decide just how far they’ll go this time.

About Jeff Hoffmann

Jeff Hoffmann’s second novel, “Like It Never Happened,” is being released March 5, 2024. His debut novel was “Other People’s Children,” and his writing has appeared in The Sun, Booth, Harpur Palate and Publishers Weekly. He was the winner of the Madison Review’s Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize. He is a passionate proponent of the Oxford comma, a mediocre men’s league hockey player and a fair-weather fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. He was raised in St. Louis and now lives in Elmhurst, Ill., with his wife and two children.

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Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Dashiell Hammett Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

12:15 pm

Presentation End Time:

1:05 pm

Signing Time:

1:15 pm