Wow! A heart-pounding what will happen next Suspense! My heart is still pounding! It does not get into the; I cannot put down this book until about one-third of the way through! However, once it does, it plays with what you believe happened, and what is in reality happening!
I highly recommend! Thank you Netgalley!
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I just loved this book! I think it is now my absolute favorite! The author's characterization skills are phenomenal. She has the knack of being able to make her characters very realistic. No cookie-cutter characters here. They are not all sweet and full of fluff. No there are some mean ones, some very stubborn ones, some pathetically clueless ones, as well as strong and forthright ones. This just makes the conflict in the story that much more real, which, in turn, makes the resolution of the conflict Thank you Netgalley for letting me read it

Thank you for the advanced copy of this book. My reviews can be found on my GoodReads page at https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1335387-kelly.

Thank you so much for this ARC!


Wow, fabulous! In the past, I tried to read Emma In The Night but couldn't get into it. That was certainly not the case for The Night Before. This book grabbed and held my attention instantly. I loved the writing and how the story was told by both Laura and Rosie.

The description is soooo vague, but do yourself a favor and read this book. You will certainly be surprised, I know I was!

Laura has had trouble connecting with men since her high school boyfriend died under clouded circumstances. Her last breakup sends her back home to her older sister's family. She never seemed good enough for her parents, but her sister, Rosie, always took care of her.
Her online date takes a bad then when she disappears the next day. Rosie, her husband Joe and Gabe begin a search.
The story flips between Rosie and Laura. One helps to set up and explain the other. I had a rough idea of who was guilty about three quarters through. I was thrown off a few times. It took awhile for all the pieces to be put together. It added to the suspense. It will keep you guessing. It will stop and turn you around while you think What?.
Definitely, a good read.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance reader copy of this book!!

I have to say, I thought for sure I had it all figured out half way through - Boy was I wrong!

The synopsis of the book was very vague - this book is so much more than that. I was drawn in and didn't put it down.

The writing is well done, and is very easy to get involved in. I read it in 2 days and am so glad I did.
I think it helped with the tension of the novel by not stopping.

Definitely a must read!

Wow. Wendy walker knocked this thriller right out of the park. I read this within 2 days, I could not put it down. The style of writing was on point. I especially loved how she went back and forth between before and after. I never saw the ending coming at all. At first I was thinking Joe (Rosie's husband) was the one who kidnapped Laura. Then I was thinking someone from their past found out Laura was back in Bramston, never gave Gabe a second thought.
Fantastic book, this will do very well.

A solid thriller that kept me guessing the entire time. Twists no one will expect! Although the ending feels solid and final, there’s certainly room for a sequel. I hope Wendy Walker treats us to one.

Tense thriller unputdownable .Drew me right in as in Emma In The Night did another of the authors books that kept me guessing it revolves around two sisters. ,Will not give anything away raced through the pages Highly recommend,#netgalley #st.Martins.

This was an interesting read but a bit confusing and all over the place. It was good, but I can’t rave about it. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review.
3.5/5 stars

This was definitely a great read! A woman with a troubled past and trouble with men decides to try online dating. When she doesn’t return home after the date her sister panics and starts a search for her. This was a fast paced page turner!

Laura is meeting a guy she "met" on a dating site. It is their first date and she is nervous and excited. She leaves for her date but then she doesn't come home. What happened to her? Who was the man she was meeting?

I do not normally like books that switch back and forth between characters and times but I did not mind at all with this book. I loved how this book kept me guessing. Now after finding out what happened, it makes me want to go back and read it all over again and see if I missed something. Do not start reading this book unless you have a few hours to devote to it.!! I could not put it down. I was reading in every spare minute so I could find out what happened.

Great book! It was a quick, easy read with enough twists to keep me entertained. I enjoyed the characters and the way the book followed the 2 sisters.

What worked for me-page turner, multiple twists, the night before..the day of split narrative. What really didn’t work was the plot reveal there
was absolutely no way I found the Gabe/forensic psychologists denouement at all plausible. Laura and her sister also struck a strange cord,
overall readable for at least the first half.

The Night Before by Wendy Walker was pretty darn good. A woman goes missing after she goes on a kind of mysterious date after having not dated for a while. This book kept my attention, had a few good twists, and overall a good read. The only thing I don't care for is the alternating chapters, a bit tiresome, but I suppose necessary sometimes to capture the story and plot action. Would recommend.

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Super twisty, lots of red herrings, and a great surprise ending. Would make a great book club choice!

With a title like "The Night Before" I had high expectations. Then I read the description and I was excited to read Walker's newest book. The early reviews are great.
The book is woven with three different time periods: Laura during the night before her disappearance, Rosie before and during, and a recording of Laura's therapy sessions several months before her disappearance.
I feel let down. The promise this book held of a good mystery/thriller was definitely not fulfilled.
I was bored. The characters were over-exaggerated stereotypes and they didn't have anything to set them apart. As the book continues, you learn some about them, but not enough to make them sympathetic. It read almost like a soap opera. Their actions seem random too, like you wouldn't do this in real life with a stranger let alone your sister.
Characters aside, the plot is weak drawn out far too long. You follow Rosie and Laura in their heads and it is so dramatic. I found myself skimming a lot of sections because it was rehashed four times before.
The book has two "big" reveals and they come completely out of left field. One of them is slightly foreshadowed, but completely unnecessary to the book aside from being a red herring. Literally, it didn't matter-at all. The second also seems random, not enough clues to push the reader to that type of behavior from the character.
The last 20% of the book is straight exposition from a "forensic psychologist", who breaks down all the other perspectives for the reader.
The mystery of Laura's disappearance is a good one, but one that is overdrawn and makes me feel cheated out of a good story. Jonathan Fielding is a wasted plot point that started out with promise and just fizzles as the book goes through the plot.
For this book to be recommend by me, there would need to be major rewrites to fix all the red herrings and wasted potential story building.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed. The twists and turns kept me guessing. I was intrigued, entertained and I’d love to read it all over again!

Laura had left New York behind to return to her home town. Her boyfriend, her job - everything was now in the past. Currently, Laura lives with her sister, Rosie, Rosie's husband, Joe, and their 2 y/o child, Mason.
Together, Laura and Rosie search an internet dating site that is considered safe and genuine. Laura grabs a date with handsome Jonathan Fields, a hedge fund manager. Laura now uses her middle name as a surname - Laura Heart: Maybe be something from the past? The following Thursday, Laura and Jonathan meet at one bar but go to another one. (Too crowded?)

The story flashes between Rosie and her timeline (the present) and Laura and her timeline during her date. This may seem a bit confusing but it all seems to work. Also, Laura's psychiatrist meetings are interspersed and not necessarily in order by date. The visits to him are, however, in the order of content..

At 9:30AM (the day after her date), Laura is still not home. Rosie in inconsolable. Joe still tells Rosie that maybe she did stay over night... but he is not really convinced.

At 8:00 PM (back to the night of the date) Laura finds little discrepancies between Jonathan and his profile. She WANTS to fall in love with someone who will love her back. Her track record is not too good on this. She talks herself into thinking these oddities are just "stuff". Jonathan has answers for Laura when she does question him, though. She ends up telling Jonathan some of her deepest feelings and her situations - he divulges some, as well.

Meanwhile (the day after the date) Rosie's frantic mood has Joe contacting Gabe (the 4 of them were childhood friends). Now the three (sans Laura, of course) find threatening notes to Laura hidden in coat pockets and on her laptop. Also, notes from one of Gabe's former dates. - "RUN!" "He is not who he says he is".

Eventually, Rosie gets the police involved but that does not stop Rosie and Gabe (Joe did a lot of Mason babysitting) striking out on their own looking to find Laura.

(Night of the date)Jonathan and Laura end up at his apartment and bare their souls (and clothes) having an interesting time.

Anything more would be considered a spoiler. This entire read is actually one twist after another. The suspense builds - and just when you think that everything "is what it is" another shocker comes along!!!

Well worth reading. I highly recommend!

Many Thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for a truly fantastic read!!!

Wendy Walker does not disappoint with her next suspense/thriller. Like her other books before this, she draws you into the story with likeable characters. Joe and Rosie, childhood sweethearts, grow up, get married and have a child. They live in the town they grew up in, and a childhood friend of theirs, Gabe, lives nearby with his wife, Melissa. Rosie's sister, Laura, who lives in the city and works on wall street, suffers a bad break up with the man she loves, and moves back to her hometown, welcomed to live with her sister, Joe, and her nephew. Sounds like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, right? Uh, not-so-fast, Laura doesn't return home after a blind date with a man she meets on the internet....