This started off well; seemed perfectly creepy, with a woman who disappeared during a storm and got into a stranger's vehicle and I was intrigued but by about 80% into it I had lost interest and just skimmed to see what happened. The plot got more convoluted as it went on and the depressing, woe-is-me attitude of both main characters, Nic and her mother, got tiresome after awhile. They also both made incredibly stupid decisions that are hard to overlook and garner any sympathy. My library owns several books by this author and they seem to do fairly well so I think most readers of this type of fiction will enjoy this, but it just wasn't to my taste.

Molly is reeling following the accidental death of her daughter- an accident she caused. Coming home from her son’s ball game, she vanished during a storm. Her car abandoned Her husband and daughter attempt to find her. The police are not helping matters, thinking she left on her own. Meanwhile, a young girl is living in an abandoned house with her father. Her mother has also vanished. Lots of twists in this clever mystery.

After five pain-filled and difficult years, Molly is still struggling to deal with the death of her youngest child. The death of a child is every parent's worst fear, but imagine how much worse it would be if the parent was responsible for the death. Every time that Molly looks at her husband, cheers for her son's field hockey team, or tries to talk to her oldest daughter she sees accusations and blame in their eyes. Who could blame Molly if she just decided to walk away from it all? When Molly never shows up at home after her weekly visit to cheer at her son's field hockey game, everyone assumes that is exactly what happened. She must have just walked away to find a new life, or did she? Would she really leave her remaining children behind? What really happened to Molly?

I loved this fast paced domestic thriller! How well do we really know our loved ones? This book had very strong characters and the twists and turns never stopped! Loved the suspenseful story line, very nicely done!
I highly recommend this book.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

"...when a series of actions come together to create a tragedy, that's what it's called - an accident."

When a tragic accident happens, Molly Clarke and her family's life is turned upside down. She tries to find ways to keep her family together but despite her efforts, her family life is crumbling around her. What would it be like to just leave it all behind? To walk away and never return?

On a stormy night returning from her son's ball game, the thought crosses Molly's mind. Then, she disappears. After a heated exchange the morning Molly vanished, her daughter Nicole wishes she could take back the hurtful words she said to her mother that very morning. Words that now cannot be taken back. Her mother was missing. After days with no leads as to her mother's whereabouts, Nic sets out to find out if her mother truly left their family not wanting to be found, or were there too many things that were just not adding up?

This was my first time reading a book by Wendy Walker and it was an extremely enjoyable read! It was chilling, suspenseful, and had me on the edge of my seat. I loved the mother and daughter's perspectives of the tragic events as they were unfolding and it kept me sucked in the entire time. I couldn't wait to turn the next page to read what happened next!

Thank you, Wendy Walker, St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the ARC!

Molly Clarke is living with knowing that she was the cause of her daughters death. Now her husband can't even look at her and her other two children blame her. She is tempted to just walk away from it all. While making the decision, she is picked up by a stranger and her life is suddenly in jeopardy. Will everyone believe that she just walked away or will anyone come looking for her? This is a very suspenseful book that will keep you guessing on what will happen.

It’s a dark and stormy night and you have run out or gas. Do you accept help from a passerby?
This mom accepted and the story begins. This story will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Definitely not predictable!!

Walker produced another enthralling read. Molly is a broken woman and her family Is shattered after the death of Annie, the youngest daughter. Molly decides to walk away one night. She gets picked up by a man and a child and vanishes. Her oldest daughter Nic comes looking for her and discovers more than she bargained for. It's a chilling read once it's revealed what's really going. The end surprised me as I wasn't expecting one character to do certain things. It's a great thriller and kept me turning the pages to find out what happened.

Don’t Look for Me is a thriller that had me guessing until the end! The characters are well-developed and it is interesting to see how each family member resolves a family drama that happened 5 years before because of the current situation in the novel. The pace is steady throughout the book and picks up at the end. Very well written and entertaining to the conclusion.

Wow! Great book! First book I have read by this author and I loved it! Suspenseful read from beginning to end. Until the “bad guy” was revealed, really didn’t expect that twist. I would definitely recommend this book. I received an advance reader copy of this book but that did not have any impact whatsoever on my opinion of this book! I don't like to post spoilers so I try to only post "generic" comments. This book is well worth the time you will spend reading it.

Molly Clarke’s life is changed after a tragic accident. One stormy night after she runs out of gas, she momentarily thinks about walking away and starting over. What will happen when she actually disappears and everyone thinks she just walked away?

Don’t Look For Me was an emotional roller coaster. At times, I had to take a break from reading because it was so heart wrecking. I loved how the story was told from two points of view and switched between Molly and her daughter. Throughout the book, I considered that all of the male characters were guilty at one point or another. It was full of so many twists and surprises in the best way. I haven’t been reading many thrillers lately but this one definitely pulled me back in.

If you want spoilers about this book …. well read around… I feel like everyone else has told the story which is disappointing as this book is definitvely worth reading without pre-concise ideas.

Wendy Walker is a great writer, i feel though that she cast similar storylines of a shattered main character who disappears after having survived a dramatic event, leaving behing broken family ties. Comes around a second protagonist, a family member improvising herself an investigator, following clues and bad advice to find the main character again.
Yes the circumstances are a little different from Wendy Walker previous books ( “The night Before” and “All is not forgotten”) but the structure i reckon very similar.

More suspense than thriller “Dont Look for me” is engaging. Wendy Walker uses the alternating POV of the protagonist and of the investigator.
Unfortunately the perpetrator gets figured out half way through the book, however the storyline keeps the reader engaged to unveil the reasons behind the act. The account is well written and keep the reader committed to the end of the book.
I personally found the end a little too sweet and too well tied together.
‘Dont look for me” is definitively a suspenseful page turner. A great choice for a summer/pool read.

Thank You St Martin Press and Wendy Walker for the ARC in exchange for my unbiaised review. I really appreciate the opportunity.

This was a pretty fast-paced story of a wife & mother who disappears one night into a storm & her daughter’s search to find her. It has dual narrators, the mother & the daughter, & it goes back & forth giving you glimpses of both characters’ psyches as they struggle to deal with both a past tragedy & the present. I didn’t particularly care for the mother’s voice, but the daughter’s was better—hers just felt more realistic. I was going to give it 3 stars but I rounded up for a twist that I so didn’t see coming—it literally made me gasp!

Holy mother of plot twists! If I could choose three words to describe this book it would be Captivating, Anticipating, and a Page-Turner. I have been guessing at what happened to Molly, who took her? And through all of my guessing, I thought that this book was going to be predictable, it was not at all. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the book and almost stayed up all night finishing this book.

Don't Look For Me by Wendy Walker made me want more of the story. What happens following the conclusion?! This thriller went beyond my expectations. I was sucked in after the first chapter. I fell in love with the characters and the story of grief the family went through. I believe this is going to be a best seller for Wendy Walker.

Thank you Wendy Walker, St. Martins Press, and NetGalley for letting me read an ARC of this book for an honest review.

Molly is out of gas. And due to the impending hurricane, the gas station has closed up shop. There is nowhere for Molly to go, but at the same time, would anyone really care if she never came home? The police have decided she left on her own accord. She doesn’t want to be found. But her daughter Nic isn’t so sure, and feels an obligation to find her especially after the awful last words she had spoken to her mother.

Wendy Walker is my Jam. That is all. Seriously though, Wendy Walker writes a damn good book and this one was no exception. I flew through this because I needed to know what the story was here. I was pretty sure I had it figured out (I was wrong, but only partly.) This had all the things I love in a thriller, but also had some family drama which really added to the story. The characters were so well done, realistic, and had very normal responses to the trauma they had faced. That said, I just wanted to cry for Molly and tell her it wasn’t her fault. I don’t want to say too much about Alice because I don’t want to give spoilers, but man that poor little girl. If you have loved Walkers other books, or even if you haven’t read them yet, you need to pick this one up!

Thank you to @stmartinspress for my gifted copy of this book!

Unique premise and well-drawn characters, with plenty of "left turns" along the way to keep the reader intrigued. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and would recommend it to all readers searching for top-rate writing. Perfect summer read!

*I received this book as an ARC from the author/publisher in return for my honest review.*

WOW! What a good book. I had not read any Wendy Walkers before but that is about to change quickly. Net Galley gave me an advanced copy so that i would give them an honest review. Molly supports her children, she drives to soccer, and school plays, She’s a good mum until she accidentally kills her youngest child. Life is not the same, how could it be ever? Until one, rainy night, Molly walks away from her life. But what about the guy in the pickup truck who gave her a ride? And why is thee a 9 yo named Alice riding along with him when the weather is so rotten? Why did Molly’s family quit looking? Truly a page turner. Read this in one go, just make sure you can sleep in the next day. I think this would be a perfect book for book clubs focusing in on mother/daughter relationships and guilt,

WOW! Just finished this and it blew my mind! So many tangled threads and it took until the very end to undo them! This was a masterful work by a masterful author. I thought I had it all figured out until the end, but I was so wrong! Would definitely recommend and would recommend this author!

Unpredictable! Riveting! Shuddersome!

This has definitely become my favorite Wendy Walker novel! You know the saying, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone"? Well in Wendy Walker's latest novel Don't Look for Me we see this lesson all too well.

Molly Clarke and her family have suffered a terrible loss. Molly is responsible for her youngest daughter's death, and everyone is struggling to move forward. While it was a tragic accident, Molly blames herself, her oldest daughter Nicole feels just as much guilt from not preventing the accident. Nicole, being the oldest was responsible for watching her siblings that day, and if only she had stopped Annie from running out into that road. Nicole's guilt has not only caused her to spiral out of control, but she can't help but push her mother further and further away.

When Molly is making the trip back home from watching her son's college football game, she runs out of gas in the middle of a storm. She finds the closest gas station is boarded up for the night. Molly begins to contemplate her options, feeling discouraged and alone in life, she takes off walking. It's not long before someone offers to help by giving Molly a ride into town. Molly has no idea that this simple act of kindness will turn into the worst kind of nightmare.

When Molly doesn't come home after Evan's football game, and days go by, a search is underway in the small town of Hastings where she was last seen by a passing motorist and her car was found. When two weeks pass, and there is still no sign of Molly, Nicole sets out for the town of Hastings to do a little investigating of her own. As Nicole starts to understand the last actions of her mother before she went missing, and more about the town's locals, she fears the worst, that her mother never left this town. If she's still there, then where is she?

Gosh... I mean... how do you hold back with a novel like this? There's just so much I want to tell you all, but I won't, I've said too much... really. Let's just say that Wendy put the PSYCHO in psychological thriller with this one. Okay, that's it... I won't say anymore. Just add it to your TBR already, better yet, add it to your shopping cart! Pre-order today! Available in stores on September 15, 2020!

I want to thank NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Wendy Walker for allowing me the opportunity to read this novel in exchange for my review.

I received this book free of charge from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I have not read any of Wendy Walker's books before. That will change. This one had me guessing right up until the end.

On a dark and stormy night, Molly runs out of gas in a small town. She tried to walk back to a gas station that is closed. She is picked up by a man and a young girl. What happens next.. whoa.

Nicole is Molly's daughter is convinced that her mom didn't just walk away from her life. Even if there was a note saying that they shouldn't look for her.

The story goes back and forth between Molly and Nicole. It works well. It kept me guessing on where it was going.

This story will not disappoint.