This was a great work of fiction. This author is an up and coming mystery writer who’s doing a great job! The pace is good, writing is great, and the characters are brilliant.

I enjoyed this book! This author is an auto-buy for me. She hooks you right away and keep you guessing throughout the book. I liked the characters and relationships with one another. Having two timelines sometimes caused me to pause to think about who a certain character was. Overall, a good book!

A bit of a mystery, lots of family drama, questionable death and love sums up the entire book. I enjoyed the book and it is a quick read. However, I liked her book “The Last Thing He Told Me” better. Thank you #NetGalley, #SimonElement, #LauraDave and #TheNightWeLostHIm for the ebook for my honest review.

Laura Dave delivers another emotional page-turner in The Night We Lost Him, blending mystery and family drama with her signature heart. The story follows a woman trying to piece together the truth about her husband’s disappearance, uncovering secrets that challenge everything she thought she knew about their life together. With beautifully written characters and just the right amount of suspense, the book explores love, trust, and the cost of loyalty. It’s a gripping, heartfelt read that keeps you thinking long after the last page.

I enjoyed this one, but I will say The Last Think He Told Me was one of my favorites.

Nora and Sam work to unravel the mystery of their father’s death at his cliffside cottage. They begin to unravel a mystery that no one saw coming, as secrets from their father’s past are revealed.

There were a lot of great quotes in this one that I had to jot down while reading. They struck me hard.

“Because they keep saying that to me, that he is ‘with me.’ It sometimes helps to hear that, and it sometimes reminds me how alone I feel since losing him. Like I had this invisible safety net underneath me my entire life and now it’s just gone.”

“He doesn’t want to know what he is starting to know about himself, because he doesn’t want to do the uncomfortable work that comes when you accept something needs to change, the uncomfortable work that comes with knowing that change means showing up for yourself in a new way.”

“Fidelity is who you tell your stories to.”

“If you’re looking for answers you can’t find, you need to change the question.”

The Night We Lost Him - Laura Dave

This book delivers a layered, slow-burn family mystery with emotional weight. The sibling dynamics are heartfelt. The dialogue is sharp. And the reveal lands with just the right mix of shock and reflection.

If you enjoy stories about uncovering family secrets and exploring grief, identity, and forgiveness, this one’s worth your time.

⭐ Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC I received in exchange for my honest review. ⭐

A wonderful read!
This novel drew me in from the very first page and kept me hooked until the end. The characters were vibrant and relatable, the writing was engaging, and the story had just the right balance of heart and humor. Highly recommend!
Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. I really liked the past and present in the story. It adds to the suspense. There’s also romantic twists that I didn’t see coming and really liked.

The novel centers on Nora, the daughter of a self-made hotel magnate, Liam Noone, whose sudden death from a cliffside fall is ruled an accident. However, Nora and her estranged half-brother, Sam, suspect foul play, leading them to form an uneasy alliance to uncover the truth behind their father's demise.

As Nora and Sam delve into Liam's past, they begin to piece together the complexities of his life and the carefully separated worlds he maintained with his three ex-wives. The narrative skillfully alternates between the present-day investigation and flashbacks into Liam's life, gradually revealing a fifty-year-old secret that irrevocably alters Nora and Sam's understanding of their father and their family.

Unfortunately, this one didn’t quite work for me. I found the pacing slow and struggled to connect with the characters. That said, Laura Dave’s fans may enjoy the subtle emotion and tension woven through the book. It’s a quieter story, but the dynamics and pacing was a miss for me personally.

Intriguing family drama with mystery woman you want to idenrify from the beginning. Heavier on the drama than thrill for this one. I enjoyed the read and drama involving a man with separate lives and insecure connections to his children due to his secret. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

Thank you to NetGalley for an Advance Digital Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Ms. Dave has done it again! Nora Noone's father "fell" off the cliff outside his home. Nora and one of her brothers don't believe that he commited suicide, and go searching for answers. In the end, they find the truth about their father, as well as themselves. I really enjoyed this book!

I absolutely loved this book! Laura Dave has such a gift for blending mystery with deep, emotional family drama, which is the kind of storytelling that completely pulls me in. I was hooked from the beginning and was so interested in how things would unfold. It was mildly twisty and turny, but it’s the way she writes relationships that really gets me. I feel everything the characters feel. So good!!

Thanks to the publisher for the e-arc :)

This was a fast read for me. While there was a mystery component, it was a pretty slow burn. The payoff did make sense at the end. I think the most interesting portion of this book was the parallel between Nora and her father. While Nora's father went made many, many mistakes to get to the love of his life, Nora seems to learn from those mistakes by the end (and the parallels to the grade school first loves were profound).

Slow burn mystery that was just enough to keep me guessing! The characters didn’t have a ton of depth but I loved how short and sweet the book was. Great on audio. Highly recommend and will be reading others in her backlist.

I received an advance review copy for free from the publisher via Netgalley and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I couldn't finish this book. I just didn't care about any of the characters. I understand writing about flawed people, but please give them a likeable quality or two.

I had a really hard time with this one grasping my attention and I felt like I was forcing myself to read it. I got about 20% in and decided that this was just not the book for me

Super fast read. A layered story about family and past lives all of this while Nora and Sam, estranged siblings, are trying to find out what happened to their father the night he died.

This was a heartfelt and emotional read. The story follows Anna, who is searching for her missing brother while uncovering family secrets along the way. The plot is filled with tension and twists as Anna tries to piece together what happened, while fighting with her feelings of guilt and loss. I really connected with the characters, especially Anna’s determination to find the truth. The book had a great balance of suspense and emotional depth, and I found it hard to put down. It’s a moving story about family, loss, and finding closure.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave. As a fan of Laura Dave’s work, I was eager to dive into her latest novel—this being the third book of hers I’ve read. While I appreciated certain elements, such as the sibling dynamic and their quest to uncover the truth behind their father's mysterious death, the story didn’t fully live up to my expectations. The plot felt a bit slower than I anticipated, and at times, I found it lacking the gripping suspense that made her previous books so engaging. Overall, while it was a solid read, it didn’t quite leave the same impact as her other works.