Cricket Night
November 2024 (Independently Published)

In Cricket Night, a young adult novel by Craig Mallery and Andy Badeker (written under the name Mallery Badeker), a surprise holiday plunges four students at an elite New England prep school into an all-night whirlwind of parties, secrets, and survival. Set in 1985, Cricket Night is a coming-of-age thriller about what it’s like to grow up in a place far from home, with an “unflinching take on class, sexuality, and institutional corruption.”