The Lost Night The Lost Night

The Lost Night

    • 3.6 • 39 Ratings
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Publisher Description

I Know What You Did Last Summer meets The Girl on the Train’ (Marie Claire) from the author of We Were Never Here, a Reese's Book Club pick

The feeling of dread when you can’t remember what you did last night is taken a terrifying step further

Edie was once the shining star in her 20-something circle in New York’s coolest neighbourhood. Like Andy Warhol’s muse, the seductive, beguiling and mercurial party girl had the social world in her thrall. Every girl wanted to be Edie, every boy wanted her, and she and her clique treated their slice of the city like a playground.

When Edie committed suicide at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could quite believe it. An overwhelming mix of grief, shock and resentment drove each of her ‘devoted’ friends into their own corner and, for years, that’s where they stayed.

Ten years later a chilling chance reunion forces Edie's best friend to wonder if there was more to her death. When a deeply unsettling video from that wild and terrible, hazy night emerges she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered – and, worse, if she herself was involved.

As Lindsay turns detective on her own life, revisiting events everyone would rather forget and interrogating her own fractured memory, she is forced to confront the demons of her past. In a shocking twist, the truth emerges of what really happened that night ...

‘Andrea Bartz casts a nostalgic, misty haze over this story about a meticulous-minded woman playing detective with her own life. If you’ve ever woken up unsure of what happened the night before and then proceeded to do it again…oh my, this is your book.’ Caroline Kepnes, bestselling author of You and Providence

‘Bartz has crafted a terrifying and delicious narrative in the vein of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins. A compulsively readable journey into the dark corners of memory.’ Jo Piazza, bestselling coauthor of The Knockoff

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2019
1 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Australia
SELLER
Simon and Schuster Australia Pty Ltd.
SIZE
4.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Dolfinbuddy ,

The Lost Night

Full of twists and turns. I had trouble when my mind told me to stop reading, but I wanted to keep going. The end of this tale was better than I expected!

rhitc ,

Lost girl

Author
American journalist. Debut novel. Being adapted for television by Mila Kunis's production company.

Plot
It's 10 years since Lindsay's one time bestie Edie died of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound in a bohemian Brooklyn building popular with early twenty-somethings. Lindsay now has a successful career in publishing. Sarah, an old friend from back in the day, comes back to town and raises grave questions in Lindsay, who had a significant problem with substances at the time, about what really happened that night. (Hint: not what she thought)

Characters
Lindsay is more like a teenager than a thirty something with a career. The other characters felt cliched to varying degrees too.

Narrative
Third person Lindsay's POV

Prose
Too many words, too little story progression

Bottom line
It was okay, if predictable. Ms Bartz's recently published sophomore effort The Herd is supposed to be better. I'm in no hurry to find out.

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