This book follows a date gone wrong. With so many dating apps out there, do you really know who you are talking to?

This thriller follows Laura’s first date with a man from a dating app. With split time, we are able to follow the date night with Laura, and try to figure out why she never came home from the date.
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While we follow Laura’s date, we also get to follow Laura’s sister Rosie and watch her collect clues about her sisters disappearance. As she starts getting closer to figuring out the truth, will she get put in harms way too?

I could not put this book down. I HAD to figure out what happened to Laura. This book is filled with attachment issues and family secrets that add a whole layer to the plot.

Laura has spent her life looking for love and feeling that she is unlovable. Many of her adult issues stem from her childhood when her father left the family for another woman and when her high school boyfriend was murdered while they were together. Did she kill him or was it really the crazy, homeless man who lived in the woods? Laura herself doesn’t have all the answers to that question which has contributed to her psychological fragility. After a breakup with a man she’d been dating, she moves home to live with her sister and brother-in-law. They encourage her to try dating again and help her to create an online dating profile. She doesn’t come home after her first date with a man named Jonathan Fields. The race is on to find her and find out as much as possible about this man. Did Laura flip out and do something to him? Did he do something to harm her? That part of the story is told from Laura’s perspective while on the date and through her sister Rosie’s perspective as she frantically searches for her sister.

This book is well written and grabs your attention early on and doesn’t let go until the end. The author does a really good job of making you look at each character and think they could be guilty. Pick up a copy! I hope you enjoy the journey to finding the truth!

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

What a ride! This thriller will take you through a story from various perspectives. This story is about a childhood trauma following a group of friends into adulthood, affecting current decisions and relationships. You will be drawn into this book quickly and won't be able to put it down until it's over. I highly recommend this book and am so glad I had the opportunity to read an ARC through Netgalley.
This book did not disappoint-5 STARS!

A taut, psychologically thrilling and twisting storyline from start to finish! Readers won't know who to believe and what the truth might be. Laura is Rosie's sister, and has always had a pattern of behavior when it comes to men, pinpointing back to the time in high school, when her boyfriend was murdered in her presence. A shadow has followed Laura ever since and no one has truly known what the truth of the matter was. After a deciding he needs a break from her recent relationship, Laura comes to live with Rosie and her husband Joe, back in her childhood home town. In recent days she decides to try her hand at dating again and doesn't come home after her first date. The frantic rush is on to find Laura and discover what may have happened the night before. Readers will find themselves up until all hours of the night, flipping pages feverishly to find out what happens and who is to be believed. Filled with twists, the characters and story will have you doubting what you truly believe happened and how secrets from the past can follow and haunt you.

The last few pages of this one were a lot more intense than I predicted. What a crazy, twisty read this was! I love a good thriller, especially when I it has me thinking I’ve got it all figured out only to throw me off the path completely.

This is a story of an emotionally broken woman who is looking for a man who is willing to love her even when she believes she’s unlovable. All her life, Laura Lochner has looked for love in the wrong places and has decided it’s time for a change. She decides to look for love using a dating website. Her fear of finding the wrong man is constantly in her mind but knows she will one day find the one.

Her decision to meet up with Jonathan Fields, a man she men online, will trigger a series of events which make this book extremely difficult to put down. When Laura doesn’t return home, her sister Rosie begins to worry about what might have happened. Do to Laura’s past; Rosie begins to feel concern not only for Laura but for the man named Jonathan Fields.

A fast paced read with some great twists. Excellent.

Loved this thriller, fast paced and really kept me engaged throughout. Definitely will be looking out for this author in the future. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book!

4* Be Careful Stars

This was a fast paced well written eerie thriller.

The story of the disappearance of Laura alternates between 3 timelines, the night of her blind date, the days after and her therapy session’s months before she left her Wall Street Job and moved into her sister Rosie’s house in Connecticut, which also happened to be the suburb where they both grew up. The chapters are short which makes for a page turning read.

Just when you think you have it all figured out you are thrown a twist two which keeps you guessing until the end. The characters were interesting, some likeable and some not.

I would recommend this book to lovers of a good thriller, with interesting characters and red herrings that will have you guessing and entertained to the end.

Many thanks to St Martin’s Press and NetGalley for my copy to read and review.

TheNight Before was my first book to read by Wendy Walker. I absolutely loved it. The book was fast-paced with many twists. The subject of internet dating is very current and immediately captured me. This book will intrigue you if you are considering internet dating. I highly recommend.

Love a good fast paced thriller and this one did not disappoint. Lots of twists and turns throughout the book. I feel like I have read enough thrillers, I can usually figure out the twist halfway through. However, this one had me guessing until the very end. Very well written with good developed characters. Highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

The Night Before has been on my TBR list for several months and it did not disappoint! It takes a lot for a thriller to deliver shock that you don’t see coming, but The Night Before did it with ease. The less you know going into this one, the better! Highly recommend!

After Laura's boyfriend abruptly breaks up with her, he returns her childhood hometown to live with her sister and her family. Her sister, Rosie married her childhood friend, Joe and they have baby Mason. Laura, Rosie, Joe and Gabe all hung around together while growing up. Laura did a profile on a dating site and has a date with someone she has never met before. The next morning, Rosie discovers Laura did not return home from her date. The next few days are spent trying to find out what happened to Laura and who was the date that she never really identified. From there, the story takes on many twists, turns and surprises. This is an unputdownable page-turner that kept me engrossed from the first page. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC of this very captivating book.

After hearing wonderful things about Wendy Walker’s precious books, I was so looking forward to sinking my teeth into her latest, The Night Before. It was an entertaining and quick read, and while I enjoyed it, it left me wanting more from what I can clearly tell is a great storyteller. This one fell a little short for me, mainly because it reminded me of so many other thrillers I’ve read, so it almost felt like I was reading it for a second time. Was it entertaining and twisty and gripping? Sure! I think it will do really well and people will thoroughly enjoy it. Was it super original in an otherwise “tropey” genre? Not exactly. But you know, sometimes you just really want a thriller that you can fly through that entertains without tons of anxiety. This is that book. While this one didn’t exactly blow me away, I’m definitely looking forward to reading Wendy Walker’s other stories.

Thank you so much to NetGalley for the free advance copy in exchange for review!

I went into this book at bedtime, thinking I would read for a short while then go to sleep. Next thing I know it’s 2 a.m. and I have to force myself to put the book down. What.a.ride! 🙌🏼
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Twelve hours earlier, she was...

Hopeful.

Excited.

Safe.

Now she's gone.
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That synopsis was all the info I had going into the book. I was intrigued and completely hooked from page one. This is a gripping, white knuckled roller coaster ride of twists and turns. Just when I thought I had it figured out the author threw another twist at me. Fast paced and intense, this is a fun ride. If you love psychological suspense and thrillers told with an unreliable narrator, then this is the book for you! Thank you @stmartinspress for this advance reader in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this thriller. I had me guessing right to the end. I felt it had the right amount of characters and suspense. It reminds us that so many things in our past determine how we will deal with situations we face. I will definitely be reading more from this author. Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Laura has moved back home to live with her sister and husband after a bad break up. Laura finally decides to go on a date off of a match online but she never comes home. The writer does a great job of breaking her night up into hourly flashbacks of her night while flashing to the present on that hour. Each chapter had more and more clues and made everyone look guilty! It kept me guessing until the end! Great read!

I've been in a bit of a mystery/thriller funk recently that had me actually thinking that maybe I'm not actually a huge mystery/thriller fan. Sure, I liked Gone Girl and The Kind Worth Killing is one of my favorite books, but maybe they were just flukes? So I was definitely hoping this one would break me out of that funk.

It kind of did? I will say I overall enjoyed this one and finished it pretty quickly. I was also pleasantly surprised by some of the twists and turns; some certainly seemed predictable at first glance, but ended up being not so straightforward. The author does a good job keeping you on your toes once the reveals start coming. However, I wish the characters had been a bit more compelling; even the main character's backstory could be a bit more fleshed out throughout. The story also felt like a lot of build-up with a very quick resolution and a somewhat unsatisfying ending that just felt incomplete for some reason.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

This was really good! It truly was a real page turner. It kept me guessing for most of the book. Things started to be more clear though shortly before the 'big' reveal. I felt like I kind of put it together a little bit earlier than I should have. Because of that, when the big reveal happened, it didn't feel like a major surprise. But, all in all, still a really good read. Would definitely recommend it to anyone.

I would rate this is a bit higher than my 3 stars but it doesn't quite get up there with my 4's so i'm leaving this as a 3. The story circulates around Laura who goes on a blind date and doesn't return home. It then jumps timelines between the night before, current, and the past. We get tidbits from Laura's point of view and that of her sister. We are introduced to pieces of Laura's past and begin to wonder if she is the victim or possibly the aggressor.

I found this thriller to have a decent amount of twists and turns to keep me engaged and absorbed with finding out what happened to Laura and how all the pieces would tie together.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to review this novel for my unbiased opinion.

This twisty turny thriller will have you questioning what you think you know almost to the very end. An interesting look at what effects childhood trauma or neglect can do to a person’s mind.

It seems like Laura can never do anything right. Her whole life has been fraught with bad decisions, and know the only man who ever told her that he loves her, Kevin, has cut her off too. She heads to her childhood home, hoping somehow things will change, and knowing that her sister Rosie and brother-in-law Joe will take her in. She's learned a lot from Kevin, and even though he no longer wants to be with her, she feels like she might be able to move on. She goes on a dating website and ends up planning a date with a man she found in there. Could this be the start of a new life for her? Or will her history with men repeat itself?? Well written psychological story with all the twists and turns! #NetGalley came thru again!