Alex Finlay plunges readers into a heart-pounding thriller fueled by mystery and suspense, by masterfully weaving a tale of intrigue!

Ryan Richardson is still grappling with the shadows of his past. Five years after his girlfriend, Alison’s, disappearance, Ryan’s world is upended once again when her car resurfaces with an interesting new discovery.

Ryan is not the only one on the hunt for the truth on the missing girl! This most recent development propels the new young deputy sheriff Poppy on a relentless journey of her own.

Finlay’s signature storytelling unfolds through multiple perspectives, keeping readers on the edge of their seats with each twist and turn. If Something Happens to Me is a thrilling read you won’t want to miss!

Huge thank you to #netgalley and @minotaur_books for the advanced audiobook!

If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
I would like to thank McMillan Audiobooks, NetGalley, and Minotaur Books for allowing me to review this audiobook with an ARC copy.
The.narration was wonderful, it was a full cast narration. This publication will be released on 5/28/2024. Helen Laser, John Pirhalla, and Paul Daleh did a great job as narrators and distinguishing the voice of individual characters. The pacing was excellent and the story flowed well. The narration definitely made the novel experience exciting and alive.
The story was a very well written thriller. I am now a new Alex Finlay fan! The plot was so well executed and it kept you guessing throughout the whole book.
You have Ryan Richardson and a cast of small town heroes develop as they are thrust into a vengeful chase from Philadelphia to Leavenworth, Kansas and all over Europe. As Ryan relives a nightmare daily . Then his nightmare comes true when he sees the monster of his dreams in Italy while on a college trip abroad. Back in the US, there is a small town with a lot of secrets that no one wants exposed. Then a car is found submerged in the lake by podcasters, and nothing can stop the roller coaster that results.
This is a fast paced thriller with lots of detail and well developed characters. You don’t want to miss it!

Thank you Alex Finlay, Macmillan Audio, and Minotaur Books for my #gifted copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

I really enjoyed this one! Between the short chapters and multiple viewpoints, this book flew! I definitely recommend the audio for the multicast.

I can honestly say that this book kept me guessing for the first half on how everything was intertwined. I fully did not guess the first major twist.

In most thrillers, there is always a character that annoys me with their stupidity, and for me in this one, that was Ryan. But even he didn’t annoy me too much. Maybe because he was written as a teenager so well that I could actually see a teenager making the dumb choices he made.

The cryptic messages added such an interesting element and I almost wish we got more.

Can I say this was a fun thriller? It wasn’t anything that had me really nervous or too stressed, but it was a fun story to read. I might have to look into more thrillers involving mobsters now.

Overall, I enjoyed this one. Was it the most edge-of-your-seat thriller? No. But it was a light and enjoyable thriller to read!

This isn't my usual genre, so perhaps that affected my enjoyment. The writing is solid, and the author has a talent for crafting twisty plots. However, the story felt like it dragged on at times, and I didn't find it particularly captivating. Additionally, the author's opinions on social issues seemed heavily embedded in the characters, which didn't resonate with me. Overall, I'd rate this book 2.5 stars, rounded up to 3. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this book! It had a plot that had me hooked from the beginning. I liked Alison and Ryan's story and all of the backstory that leads to the quick and twisty ending. Alex Finlay is a must read author for me and this is just another book that is well done! There are multiple narrators on the audiobook for the different perspectives and it was so well done! Highly recommend this as an audiobook! Thank you Macmillan Audio for an early copy of this great book!

𝗠𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 4 ½ ⭐️✨
IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME
🤍𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: thriller
📖 336 pages
𝗘𝗺𝗼𝗷𝗶𝘀: 🎙️🏍️🇮🇹🚔🕵🏻‍♀️✉️🇫🇷🆘🔥💊🚙
𝗣𝘂𝗯 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: 5/28/2024

💙𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲💙

Thank you @netgalley @minotaurbooks for the #gifted copy!

IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME was captivating from start to finish! I found myself completely engrossed, reading at such a pace that I had to doublecheck the page count 😅 . The story features a wide array of characters & multiple POV, creating a complex web of suspense where trust is a scarce commodity & identifying the guilty party is a thrilling challenge.

The narrative is packed with relentless suspense, nonstop action, & unexpected twists. Each chapter, narrated from a different perspective, kept me equally invested, eager to see how the pieces fit together. The seamless shift between viewpoints added depth & intrigue, making it a compelling read that I highly recommend!

⚠️ bullying, suicide

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲:
◽️ podcasts
◽️ multiple POV
◽️ suspense & twists

𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁: For 5 years, Ryan Richardson has been haunted by a night of terror, where his girlfriend Ali was abducted. Despite suspicion & online harassment, he's rebuilt his life, studying law under a new identity. A call from his father about Ali's car resurfaces the past, leading Ryan on a journey across continents. As he delves into the mystery, unexpected allies emerge, hinting at salvation from unexpected places. From Italy to the UK to Paris, Ryan's quest for truth uncovers a web of intrigue linking distant locales & unlikely figures.

I’m so disappointed by how disappointed I was by this book. I really had to force myself to power through it. I could not find it in myself to care at all. Too many POVs - most of whom were pretty unlikeable. A pretty predictable storyline. I just never really felt convinced that I should care about what was happening.

I received a free audiobook copy from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

High schooler Ryan and his girlfriend Ali are victims of a baffling crime: Ryan is beaten to unconsciousness and Ali is abducted from his car and goes missing. Her car is found years later, but her body is not in it: instead, two unidentified male bodies are inside, as well as some preserved clues. Ali is still missing, and Ryan, after changing his name, is pulled back into the case that has haunted him since his teen years. Is Ali still alive? Who are the dead dudes? Lots of red herrings, strange coincidences, and imagination stretching are in this interesting mystery.

This isn't a terrible book, in fact the premise is quite intriguing. Unfortunately, the twist is revealed way too early, and I mentally checked out shortly after. I don't know if the story could have progressed without the early reveal, but maybe that's the problem. Like I said, not a bad book, just a little... disorganized? I guess? Give it a try though, the story itself is pretty cool.

I was so pleasantly surprised at the multiple layers of this thriller, while being very easy to follow. This book sucked me right in and I couldn't put the book down!

I recommend this book for everyone and hope to read more from Alex Finlay in the future.

This is my second book by this author and won’t be my last. This story is action packed, fast paced and full of twists. A must read for fans of this genre. I really enjoyed the narration also. Thank you to the author, publisher NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

4.5 stars
This was my first book by Alex Finlay and it did not disappoint.
New cop Poppy is put on the cold case of a missing high school girl Alison when her car is found in a lake. Her then boyfriend Ryan has been accused of her disappearance since he was with her when she disappeared, sticking to a crazy story that a man missing his pinkie fingers took her. When the car is found, Ryan's dad calls him to tell him while he is on a trip in Italy. He then sees the man with no pinkies and follows him to get some much needed answers. He needs to know what happened to Alison.
This book really took me a minute to get into because there are a few different POVs that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Along with Poppy and Ryan, we have Michael. Poppy and Ryan's overlap because Poppy is working the case and Ryan was involved, but the Michael POV really threw me. I don't want to give anything away about Michael because it was really a jaw dropping twist (to me anyways) but the way all the POVs ended up weaving together was so clever.
There were a lot of characters to keep track of which is another reason it took me a minute to get into the book. I think a lot of times with multiple POVs, the characters are together so we only get one set of characters to remember, but with this one there were 3 separate character groups to remember. Not all the characters were super likeable, but they weren't supposed to be. So while I didn't like some of the characters, they all did their job in the story really well. I think my favorite character was Poppy. She was a new cop starting her job with this big break in a cold case. She was determined not to sweep anything under the rug no matter who was responsible.
The pacing of the story was great with the different POVs. I was always eagerly awaiting what would happen next with each POV and the entire story was pretty action packed. There was a lot of info that connected with the other POVs, so you need to pay close attention.
There were 3 narrators for the audiobook which brought the story to another level. Even the 2 male POV narrators were different. Each of them did a great job portraying their part of the story and really bringing their parts to life.

I was so excited to read Alex Finlay's latest, and If Something Happens to Me was such an amazing book - I thought about it for days after finishing it! Told from different character perspectives, what seem like several different stories seamlessly come together as one for a gripping finale. I don't usually love crime boss thrillers, but this one was spectacular. Finlay does an amazing job creating each character uniquely, and drafting a realistic and believable plot. I cannot recommend this one enough! The narration was spectacular.

Alex Finlay does it again in another suspense novel that will have readers struggling to put down this book! The interwoven tale between the characters brought things together in a way that I never saw coming. If Something Happens to Me is a whirlwind story that spans from America to Europe and back, told from multiple viewpoints, and leaving readers guessing until the last moments!

Ryan Richardson is now in law school, enjoying a tour of Europe with classmates, doing his best to enjoy his life and forget about his teenage past - specifically the disappearance of his girlfriend Ali. Ryan had been ripped from the car Ali was driving one night several years ago, he heard her screams, and then everything went dark...and neither the car nor Ali were ever found. Naturally, Ryan was the first suspect in Ali's disappearance, and though he was never charged, the aftermath of being the suspicious boyfriend never left Ryan.

A break in the case - Ali's car has been found. With two deceased men in the car, and no sign of Ali. Now all of these years of wondering what happened lead to even more questions for Ryan, and the feeling there was much more going on with Ali than he knew.

While in Italy, Ryan is stunned to recognize the man who pulled him out of the car that night, a man he could never put a face to before, and this realization puts Ryan into a race for the truth and discovering what really happened that night. He will soon find out that Ali's disappearance does in fact have many more layers to it than he could have ever imagined.

Always a fan of Finlay, I am thankful to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the opportunity to receive this eAudiobook ARC. It did not disappoint with it's fast-paced story and fantastic narration. Highly recommend!

I have enjoyed this author’s previous works so I knew I needed to read this one. I listened to the audiobook for a little more than half and I liked it. The narrators did an excellent job and I think it helped me keep the people/locations straight since this book took place in multiple cities with several narrators. As I often do if I have the option I switched to kindle at the halfway point because I was done waiting for the resolution. I didn’t see every twist coming but I did see most of them. The people in this one at first seem completely separate but by the end you can see the threads that tie them together. Ryan is in law school on a school trip to Europe. He’s changed his last name because while he wasn’t charged so many people believed he killed his high school girlfriend who disappeared after being with him and still has never been found. But not everyone has forgot who he is and his pasts may find him even on another continent. Poppy is home from military service and got a job as a deputy, not something she expected, but she’s excited to start. On her first day the car Alison had been in when she disappeared is found but instead of her body there are bodies of two men in the car. This mystery was not bad although it was a little over the top at times I found it to be a fun and wild ride.

I think overall, this book had too many moving parts. There were so many moments that a reveal would happen and I'd be thinking "okay, now what?" not "oh my gosh I have to keep going." I won't say alll the things involved in the book that made it feel overwhelmed with plot points and characters. I'll just say that WAY too much happened and WAY too many twists occurred in the span of a 7 hour audiobook.

Wow really good. I had a hard time stopping to do other things. I like audiobooks that have more than one person reading. This book had several. The plot was great, easy to follow and I liked the characters. I got this free as a preview from NetGalley. Many thanks to them , McMillan audio of course the author.

The beginning of this one had me a bit confused because so much was going on & there were so many characters being introduced I felt like I couldn't keep it straight. Everything definitely came together & now I understand why it was set up like it was!

This book had multiple moments where my mouth was hanging open because I did not see the twists coming AT ALL. Once I got into it-- I just couldn't stop!

Hometown mysteries were girls go missing & the boyfriend being the suspect gets me. The only problem is that the boyfriend was cleared & now the man that haunts his dreams, the man that took his girlfriend all those years ago, has found him.

Read this one if you're into: hometown mysteries, the past coming back to haunt you, mobsters, & twists that you never saw coming

Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for sending me an early copy of this audiobook! All opinions are my own!

I wasn't sure what to expect with this book, and I still came out of it surprised at the end. It was full of twists and turns in every single chapter, and I can honestly say there wasn't a single moment that I was bored. It left me absolutely intrigued to the point that I read it much faster than I normally would because I simply needed to know what was going to happen so that I could stop thinking about it!

I think my favorite part of this book is how many different story lines are woven together. At first I was worried that it wasn't going to come together well enough at the end, but I think it was really expertly done, and I greatly enjoyed watching things fall into place.

This was an absolutely wild ride, and I would highly recommend it to any thriller/mystery lover out there!

This was a great listen. It had multiple point of views, and I really enjoyed each one and it took a while before they all came together to tie in and it was done seamlessly so I enjoyed the mystery. I enjoyed all the little hints along the way, it was very well written, and then it all tied in at the end, Thanks NetGalley that was a really nice listen and very well written book

I really liked this book, but I admit, I kind of lost my place in the middle of it. It started out really strong, but then I started mixing up the characters and perspectives. Once I got past the slow parts in the middle, it took off again. I had the story figured out quite early, but it was still an enjoyable book! The characters were interesting, but I did have trouble with Ryan’s character. The narrator for his character sounded extremely young to me, so it was hard for me to believe he was in his twenties. To me, he sounded like 16-year-old. I think it would have been easier to keep my attention had the narrator for Ryan sounded a bit older. I think for me, this book would be better read as opposed to an audiobook, but that’s just my personal opinion!

Huge thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for sending me this ARC for review! All of my reviews are given honestly!