One of the best creepy thrillers I've read! I will be recommending this to my followers when it's published. The story keeps you guessing throughout, yet gives enough clues to make you feel like you could solve it on your own (answer: you can't).

It's rare for an author to throw a twist in a psychological thriller that I don't see coming. So I just want to start this review off by saying props to Wendy Walker for that. Molly Clarke is coming home from her son's football game at boarding school when her car runs out of gas. But Molly never makes it home. After accidentally killing her youngest daughter, her disappearance on the fifth anniversary of Annie's death makes her family wonder if she just decided to leave. But her oldest child Nicole has her doubts. The thing is, Molly is still alive, and she becomes increasingly concerned that her abduction wasn't the endgame for her kidnapper, and that taking Nicole too is the next step. The story is told in alternating chapters by Molly and Nicole, and everyone in the town where Molly disappeared is keeping a secret, many of which involve another young woman that looks like Nicole. The question is, can Molly and Nicole work their ends of the mystery before anything happens to either of them? While this wasn't the most suspenseful thriller I've ever read, it definitely makes things interested, and as mentioned above, throws in something most readers won't see coming at all.

This book grabs you from page one and never lets you go!
It was a twisted kind of story! I enjoyed it! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy

I’m always in for a provocative fast paced thriller! Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker was just that. However, this story, although had great flow lacked credibility. The story seemed very far fetched. Nicole the elder child of a family that experienced a horrible tragedy goes looking for her mother who under circumstances was “believed” to have walked away. Nicole in doing so solves the crime. Nicole articulately knows more than the Chief of . Police.of the town and puts it all the pieces together and ultimately solves the crime. As the ending unfolds the capture after being drugged on homemade cyanide, makes a temporary recovery, and another missing character appears. It was ridiculous!

Have you ever read a book and felt hungover after finishing it? Or felt like you want to pick up another book but you’re just not quite ready or done processing what emotional distress the previous book put you through?

Well, this one did it for me. “Don’t Look For Me” by Wendy Walker has left me speechless.

I’m giving this one a 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5. From the very beginning I was hooked. With every chapter and every event/detail, it left me with a “wtf just happened” feeling. The ending is one you never see coming and I absolutely LOVE that about a book. Call me crazy but I’m all about a book that leaves me guessing the WHOLE time and then surprises me with the ending. This book is so chilling, twisted, and original. A nail-biter, emotional, heart-pounder kidnapping story that reels you in from the very beginning.

This is my first Wendy Walker book and I highly suggest picking a copy up of this when it’s released in September 2020 because she did not disappoint.

Huge thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC and opportunity to give a review.

Synopsis: The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together. They called it a “walk away.” It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke?

Put on your parachute, jump off the plane, but make sure you have on your safety gear because the winds are going to propel you side to side. This unsettling page turner is an easy read and the pages will fly by with a whiplash inducing final ending. Molly Clarke accidentally kills her 9 year old child with her car and can never forgive herself, nor can her family forgive her. When she vanishes after leaving her son's game at a private school, a suspicious note materializes . Did she run away or is some other macabre forces at work? Her daughter, refusing to believe that she is gone, travels to the town where she disappeared, and begins to unravel the story as a new lead appears.I must admit that there were some discrepancies and issues of plausibility that bothered me but that did not affect my overall enjoyment of the book. Wendy Walker has a chart-buster with this novel.

We meet Molly Clarke when she's on the verge of a breakdown. She's responsible for her youngest daughter's death, her two older children want no part of her and her husband is probably having an affair. But what happens when she really does disappear? Another page-turning thriller from Wendy Walker that will make it impossible to put the book down.

This novel was enthralling from the first page. It read like an episode of Criminal Minds that could not be put down. The situations were realistic and the characters were relatable. The pieces fit together slowly but surely and the final twist was unexpected and satisfying. A great read!

Fast paced and thrilling. First time I've read a book by Wendy Walker and it will not be my last. Pick this up if you're looking for a great thriller novel.

Don't Look for Me has two things that make it an above average thriller. First, the creepy small town where most of the action takes place is not in the South. (Do you know how rare that is? It seems to be an unwritten thriller rule: small town creepiness needed? Pick a state south of the Mason Dixon line to put it in!) So, huge kudos to Wendy Walker for making me terrified of Connecticut (no, seriously)

Second, and most importantly, huge kudos to Wendy Walker for creating the creepiest, scariest, most murderous (if not now, soon) child I've read about in ages. Alice is hella scary and only gets more so as the book goes on. If the ending doesn't give you chills, I don't know what will.

The plot hinges on a lot of things that make no sense if you think too much about them, but Don't Look for Me is well written and totally sucks you in with its story of a disappearance and the small town that has many, many secrets. So come for the mystery, stay for the most frightening child, Alice, and enjoy! I sure did!

I was already a Wendy Walker fan, but this book was amazing! I devoured it so quickly and enjoyed every minute. Highly recommend this book and her other books.

Sometimes when I read a book I have notes or highlighted passages - things I want to talk about or remember to bring up in my review. This time around, I was so engrossed in the book, I honestly remember taking one mental note, and this was towards the beginning of the book. That’s it.

Don’t Look For Me was everything you could ask for in a thriller. It had the creepy atmosphere, the sleepy town full of secrets, interesting characters, and little pieces of information scattered throughout. It literally starts in the middle of a raging storm. Honestly, we’re thrown right into the story and I loved it.

Molly Clarke is driving home in the middle of a storm thinking of the cold house she’s driving back to and different her family has become since tragedy hit them. The guilt of that tragedy is nearly unbearable and has weighed down on each member differently, especially Molly, to the point where they’re nearly unrecognizable. A once-warm home full of love and laughter is now cold and quiet. Her husband pretends he’s asleep to avoid her. Her daughter rarely makes it home at night. Their last conversation had been awful, the hurtful words still ringing loudly in her head. And that’s when she runs out of gas. In the middle of a storm, miles away from a home she’s not sure she wants to go back to.

That’s the last anyone sees or hears from Molly Clarke. They find her car on the side of the road, her phone inside it, and a letter telling her family she’s gone. One more tragedy for the Clarke family. Except Nicole, Molly’s eldest daughter, can’t accept it. She can’t. She knows her mom would never do something like this. Everyone insists this happens, that Molly just doesn’t want to be found.

“But Nic knew things they didn’t, things she’d said to drive her mother away.
This was her fault and now she had to make it right. She had to find her mother.”

The story alternates between Molly and Nicole’s points of view and each side is just as engaging and compelling. I couldn’t put the book down. At one point, I thought I knew what was going on. I was actually pretty bummed I had figured it out so quickly.

Except I hadn’t. I remember shutting my book at the twist.

This book had me doubting everyone. Everyone is lying. Everyone is hiding something in this small town where everyone seems to know everyone else. The book was creepy and engaging, suspenseful and wonderfully paced. Even the parts that were supposed to drag on didn’t really.

One thing I really loved was how wonderfully real the characters were. No one is perfect and the relationships between these imperfect individuals (especially the familial ones - Nic’s little interactions with her brother were some of my favorite bits to read) were genuine. Which made it all the more terrifying. Yet, as much as I loved the characters, I also really wanted more of them. I understand how keeping us in the dark was necessary but some characters weren’t as fleshed out as others and I really wanted that.

So why four stars? I felt that the last final twist was just a bit too contrived. It felt more like a dramatic telenovela sort of twist than a plausible book one. I think the book tried to be too twisty in its back and forth and I wasn’t a big fan.

My other issue, if you can call it that, is that I probably won’t reread the book. There are some thrillers or books I can read and reread and pick up new things I missed or enjoy characterizations and stories outside of the main story. Without the twists and turns, it’s not as engaging a read. I still highly highly recommend it. I was engrossed from start to finish and I know most others will be too.

Please note that I received an advance review copy for free in exchange for my honest opinion.

Molly Clark drove the car that hit and killed her nine year old daughter. Her family began disintegrating that day. It is now five years later and she is driving home from her son’s football game in a severe storm. She runs out of gas and leaves the car to walk a short distance to a gas station. While walking she mentally speculates on the benefits of not going home, but simply disappearing and leaving behind all her unhappiness. Shortly thereafter a truck stops and the driver and his daughter offer her a ride to town. This is basically the beginning of the psychological thriller about a missing woman and her rebellious daughter’s attempts to find her. No one is what they appear to be and even Molly shows strength one would not expect her to have. Good reading. Thanks to Net Galley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC for an honest review.

Wendy Walker’s new thriller, Don’t Look for Me, is masterpiece of twists and turns you won’t see coming! Her characters are well developed and drive the story from the first page. Plenty of red herrings will keep you guessing. Five stars! This book is not to be missed!

Thanks to netgalley for the advance copy.

Thus was a really good book. Well written, easy to read. I loved the story, it was kind of creepy....but really had me guessing.
I highly recommend it!

An unexpected twist is always welcome when reading a fast-paced thriller such as this one. Wendy Walker does a fantastic job of writing from the point-of-view of her main characters in this book including that of Molly and her daughter Nic. The Clarke family has never gotten over the death of the youngest daughter that day that Mom Molly accidentally killed her with the family vehicle. Although it was an accident, the two remaining children and Molly's husband treat her like absolute trash. It's no wonder Molly ran away from her own family. But did she? Clues in a small town all point to Molly picking up and leaving, but Molly's side of the story tells otherwise. This book is absolutely heart-stopping and will have you reading into the wee hours of the night. Every page is 100% worth it.

Thank you to Netgalley, Wendy Walker, and St. Martin's Press for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Don't Look For Me by Wendy Walker is a novel sure to keep readers in suspense, hungry for more as they keep turning pages. The perfect mystery full of twists and turns, this pyschological thriller was such a great read.

After everything she has been through in the last several years, Molly Clarke wonders what it would be like to escape from the pain and leave everything she has ever known. When her car runs out of gas on the way home from her son's football game, right in the middle of an awful storm, she wonders for a quick second if it was a sign. A sign to leave it all behind because she knew everyone would be better off without her. However, desperate to get out of the darkness that filled Hasting's, the small town she found herself stuck in, she jumps at the first opportunity she gets to catch a ride with someone. However, the occupants of this car are not what they seem, and though Molly can't exactly put her finger on it, she's worried. Worried for her life.

I have been getting into thrillers recently, and this novel did not disappoint me one bit! I found myself captivated by Mick, or Reyes, and I wanted to learn more about what was going on inside his head. Walker did a great job portraying each of the characters in all of their goodness and badness, and the entire plot was fluid and cohesive. Once I got into this book, I couldn't put it down! The plot twists that Walker weaved throughout the book absolutely got to me, and I was shocked at how the story turned on several occasions.

I would highly recommend Don't Look For Me to anyone looking for a great thriller to read. I cannot wait to see where this book goes once it is published later this year.

Molly didn’t have the best relationship with her husband or adult children however she loved them dearly. An accident years before that resulted in the death of their younger sister had torn this family apart. When Molly turns up missing her family initially write her off as someone who walked away from the sorrows of their lives, after all a note was left saying this. But did Molly actually write this note? This book follows Molly who is being held captive to parent a small child she does not know, and her daughter who has come back to the town she was last seen in because she feels something isn’t quite right. These characters are wonderfully developed and the story told was fantastic. There were many plot twists and turns and suspense. I highly recommend this read.

🎤 Sing 🎶 Along....
The Appleseed 🍏 Song....
“Oh the Lord is good to me.
And so I thank the lord.
For giving me the things I need:
The sun and the rain and the appleseed;
The Lord is good to me”.

“Oh the earth is good to me.
And so I thank the earth,
For giving me the things I need:
The sun and the rain and the appleseed;
The earth is good to me”.

“The guilt will never leave me. I will never leave my family”.....
The above little quote rhymes
with the Johnny Appleseed song....
🎶THE EARTH IS GOOD TO ME!
The guilt will never leave me - the earth is good to me - the guilt will never leave me -
AND...
Wendy Walker was good to me!
I enjoyed this page turning ‘creepy-is-as-creepy-is’ story.

🧩🚙☕️📱🌲🥛🥪🍏🥾☔️🧩

“The car abandoned just before the gas station.
Out of gas.
Nothing inside but her cell phone, attached to the charger. Every field, every home, everywhere searched and searched.
Then, two days later, a credit card used at a nearby casino resort.
And her clothes, still wet, found in the hotel room—along with the note.
The note which explained everything—and nothing”.

A walk-away theory:
“Most adult women who disappear were trying to leave their lives behind”.
Hm??? 🧩

I say no more!
🍏🍏🍏🍏🍏


Thank you, Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Wendy Walker ( for my enjoyment of the first book I’ve read by you)
Terrific physiological thriller escape from coronavirus worries!

I like this one as it explores the bonds of family trust al but with twists and turns to keep you guessing . It was filled with twist and keeps you on the edge of your seat