The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
on April 14, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Family Life / Siblings, Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Women
Pages: 320
Format: eBook, Hardcover
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“She said if you are looking for answers you can’t find, you need to change the question.”
Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant family man who kept his finances flush and his families carefully separated. To Nora, he was a father who often loved her from afar, notably, a cliffside cottage perched on the California coast from which he fell to his death. The authorities rule the death accidental, but Nora and her estranged brother Sam have other ideas. As Nora and Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their father’s past and uncover a family secret that changes everything.
I went into this completely blind and wow!! It is definitely slower on the mystery aspect and I wouldn’t call it a thriller at all. I would manage your expectations going in on this one. This was much more of a family drama with mystery subplot and I think that might be why this novel wasn’t rated too highly? I just believe this novel is being marketed wrong and we need to pivot QUICKLY because I thought it was wonderful. I personally found this to be such a beautiful story about navigating grief and super complicated family dynamics with a couple of love stories woven in.
4.5 stars for this one! Laura Dave hit it out of the park again. This isn’t as action packed as her prior book, The Last Thing He Told Me, but more of a slow burn, a careful thoughtful unraveling of family secrets. The writing is superb and I loved the format with periodic glimpses into the past. I loved the messy relationships between this disjointed family.
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