3.5 ⭐️

A great setting and a somewhat surprising ending , however , I just really didn’t like the characters - there seemed to be nothing redeeming about any of them .

Meghan’s family members receive a mysterious invitation for a weekend away…the catch? They are there to@find out who murdered her 10 years ago. Was it Cal, her boyfriend who did the time? Or has the killer been walking among them?

Buckle up for this chilling thriller!

Thrilling read with multiple twists! I always enjoy reading stories with multiple points of view and really enjoyed the flow of the story. Thisis a great fast read for mystery lovers. I am looking forward to reading more books by this author.

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This is the first book I’ve read by Georgina Cross and it definitely will not be the last. I’m not sure how I haven’t read anything by her before now, but I’m so glad #ThrillerBookLoversPromotions introduced her to me…I cannot wait to dig into her backlist!

This locked-room style thriller kept me engaged and flipping through the pages from start to finish. I love a story that involves secrets and family trauma and this one has that in spades! I loved that the story takes place over the course of one night, with flashbacks to fill in what happened all those years ago. It creates such a layered, tense story. I’m a big fan of atmospheric reads and this one definitely fit that bill – between the secluded house on the cliff, the raging storm – both outside and in – and not knowing who invited everyone to the house in the first place and why.

The story is told from multiple points of view – it made hearing each person’s side of the story add another layer to an already complex situation, plus it made you question who you could really trust. Again, these are all things I love when reading a thriller.

I had so many theories as to what direction this book was going to take at different points throughout the book and was quite shocked at some of the revelations that happen over the course of the story…and I couldn’t have loved it more. It truly kept me on edge the whole time!

This is a great book to add to you summer reading list…be sure to grab it when it releases on August 1st!

I loved Georgina Cross's Nanny Needed so I was very excited to get a chance to read this early. I read it in one sitting. Wrapped in a weighted blanket with the AC cranked. This author has a particular way of setting a scene that sucks you in and holds you weightless within the story. This one will delight both locked room mystery fans and psychological thriller junkies. The rainstorm. The house set on cliffs. The secrets within this family explode like confetti when they come face to face with Cal, the ex boyfriend of Meghan, oldest daughter and sister to Alice and Samantha ( Sam ) The ending was nearly hitchcokian in it's perfection. Rounding up to 4.5 ⭐! Thank you to NetGalley and Ballentine books for making this gem available as an ARC

I wasn’t sure how I felt about the ending. There were several twists, but I felt like they were underwhelming at best. This story had so much potential, but the ending just fell flat for me. It was a little too frenetic and scattered. I wish that a better ending could have been used. Decent book, but disappointing ending.

This is a mystery story taut with tension. It is told from multiple point of views reflecting on the past as well as focusing on the present. Ten years ago their lives are ripped apart with the death of teenage Meghan. She is a daughter, sister and friend. All the characters are keeping secrets and the author does a superb job of keeping the reader guessing who the murderer is. Readers will be surprised to the very end. The author created great characters and keeps the reader turning the pages with interesting dialogue.

This was such a fun read. I loved the story telling and the atmospheric vibe. I would read more by this author.

This was definitely a rollercoaster of a tale!

First, the fun part: wonderful characters, each a fully rounded person with a secret. The story-telling keeps you turning pages long after you should get up and take a break. It is atmospheric ('a dark and stormy night') and believable, for the most part.

Now for the disappointing part; by the end of the second chapter I had figured out who the villain was, and by the time I had reached the mid-point of the book, I was getting a tad bored. The Mom and youngest daughter were the first to reach the house on the cliff. Their descriptions of the house's desolate beauty and the terrifying loneliness of the location were lovely. But every single person who arrived after them also described the house on the cliff, its furnishings and the isolated location. It got redundant pretty fast. Several long stretches of characters reliving memories and rehashing the past also dragged the momentum of the action down to turtle speed in several spots.

Back to the fun; the ending, although it could be seen a mile away, was satisfying and tied all loose ends up in the neatest of bows (and I love being right!). Not a bad way to while away a rainy afternoon.

A family torn apart by tragedy are summoned by an anonymous host to a home by the sea where a storm soon rages and everyone is trapped together, forced to confront what happened that one night ten years ago.

A locked room thriller where everyone is suspect and secrets linger on the edges of paranoia, this story had me in its grip with each subsequent chapter. Told between the present and the past, a twisted image of a family emerges and I was possessed by the need to get to the end and find out what went wrong.

With a cast of unlikable characters that all have the potential to be the killer, I only saw half of the ending that was coming my way, and even then, it was more disturbing than I could have imagined.

I highly recommend this book to readers who like locked room, psychological thrillers, with a cast of characters who drop hints and suspicions that will have you flying through the pages of this book!

4.5✨'s

I read and reviewed a DRC of this book thanks to Random House Publishing Group-Ballantine via NetGalley. All honest opinions are my own.

This would have been 5 stars, but the writing style made it hard for me to get into. I really appreciated the plot though, and I wanted to know what happened. I had the same issue with Nanny Needed by the same author, so if you liked that book, you would like this one as well!

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Ballantine for the arc.

What did I just read? For one I really love locked room thrillers and this was perfect. I had theories on what was going to happen and I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. I really loved this!

Secrets, lies and accusations abound in this book. The Chilsom's eldest daughter has been dead for ten years. She was killed and her boyfriend was sent to prison for her murder. But what her family thought they knew happened that night would be wrong. Very wrong and this is what makes this book a psychological thriller. Thank you Netgalley and Publisher, Random House Ballantine Batman for an arc of this book. This review is my honest opinion.

Full of the usual locked room mystery cliches, One Night has a lot of the usual tropes of the mystery genre. It does have a lot going for it. It starts strong. Georgina Cross has a strong narrative voice that immediately hooks you in, even if the middle of the story struggles a little, you're still going to find yourself wanting to know whodunnit. Even if there was a downed tree preventing them all from leaving.

It's a great first outing and I can't wait to see what else we get from her.

Thank you for the galley!.

I had no idea what to expect when I started One Night. It was the first from Georgina Cross for me. Maybe 4 chapters in, I had my guess as to who was orchestrating everything. I was right.

That said, I was still able to enjoy the story, and Cross managed to throw a decent twist in at the end!

One Night is a locked-door story. A family is mourning and looking for answers years after their daughters death. The eldest of 3, Meghan was popular and (apparently) a master manipulator. Her high school boyfriend went to jail for 10 years for her murder, but he maintains his innocence. The family all receives anonymous invites to a remote home, and OF COURSE there’s a big storm and OF COURSE they lose power and cell service and OF COURSE a tree blocks the road.

All those cliches aside, it was an enjoyable story. I think I’ve just read too many similar plot lines!

One Night would be a tamer option for fans of Ruth Ware’s One by One and the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series!

“One Night” is a good mystery about a grieving family trying to find the truth about who killed their oldest daughter 10 years prior. With dual timelines uncovering the truth, the story unfolds perfectly. I enjoyed the book but found it a bit boring and slightly predictable at points. Still a good read but not a big page turner.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in advance of publication.

3.5 stars

This is a fast-paced mystery/thriller that kept me engaged and curious, and the payoff was worth the journey.

The Chisolms are comprised of two ex-spouses, a current wife/stepmom, and three daughters, the oldest of whom was murdered about a decade ago. All of these folks - along with the deceased's alleged killer (who has just completed his related sentence) and a weird guy called Uncle Geoff who isn't really anyone's uncle - show up to a beautiful vacation home on the Oregon coast so they can be mysteriously terrorized together (and by each other). It's not the kind of trip anyone wants to be on, but it is fun to read about from the outside.

All kinds of disturbing "clues" begin to appear, and the characters start to put some of the pieces together. What's most interesting for readers is that we get to see into many of their heads both in the present moment and 10 years ago when the central event that binds them occurred. There's a bit of a locked door vibe happening thanks to some inclement weather, and this becomes more sinister as the whole group starts to wonder if they know the truth at all or have been misled intentionally by others or unintentionally by their own emotions and desires.

The reveals at the end are pretty solid, so readers who come in annoyed that they have solved the case in the first chapter (looks side to side, slowly raises hand) need not worry. There's nothing WAY out there happening, but there are some nice twists.

This is my first book by this author, and while it's not necessarily in the group of absolute standout thrillers or mysteries I've read this year, it's a solid and worthwhile read. I'm very interested in the audio and how all of these characters are handled in that format!

A family who suffered the loss of their daughter Meghan 10 years earlier all receive an invitation to meet at a beach house. No one knows who it’s from, but they all have their suspicions. We hear from various points of view, including Sam, the younger daughter, Alice, the middle daughter, and Maureen, the mother. There’s also Paul, their dad, with his new wife Rebecca, and a close family friend, Geoff. The attendees are shocked when they learn that the organizer had invited Cal, the man who was sentenced for Meghan's murder..
A horrible storm has kicked up, and they’re unable to leave. Power flickers on and off, and the night lasts years long for each of them. Due to the storm, Cal has been knocked unconscious and his health is declining with each hour. Maureen wants to smother him. Sam wants to save him to hear what he has to say. Everyone has conflicting feelings about the unconscious man dying on the floor.
Clues are found, and fingers are pointed. No one can escape until the storm abates. Everyone has hidden feelings towards someone else, and the forced closeness is making them talk. So what happened to Meghan? Who’s behind this slow torture the family has found themselves in?
This is a quick-paced, continually guessing game of a plot that kept me wondering until the final pages.
Thanks to Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine, Bantam for an ARC in exchange for my honest review. The publishing date is August 1, 2023.

One Night has a very interesting premise--the family of a teenage girl murdered ten years ago is mysteriously summoned to a beautiful and isolated house on the Oregon coast to learn what really happened on the night of her murder. Although the victim's ex-boyfriend was convicted of her murder, it's not clear whether he really was the murderer, as everyone is keeping secrets about that night. The book goes back and forth in time, sharing the perspective of the different characters, to finally arrive at the truth.

I enjoyed this book! The characters were well-drawn, if not particularly likeable, and the author did a good job of doling out the answers about what really happened. And there were lots of exciting twists and turns along the way!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is my first by the author. I really enjoyed all the different point of views. Faces with the decision I am not sure what I would do. I also didn’t expect the killer to be who it was.