This was my second Wendy Walker book and she did not disappoint. I flew through this book because it was such a page turner. Some parts were predictable but there were some surprises. I kept trying to figure them out and couldn’t. This is a must-read to add to your TBR list! Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy of Don’t Look for Me!

Holy sh*t, this BOOK!!!!! Wow! I literally couldn’t put this down. I started reading two days ago and picked it up today at about 40%... 4 hours later and I’m done! Molly Clarke is a broken woman, feeling unloved by her family and guilt for the death of her youngest child. When she disappears one night while driving through Hastings, her family is concerned... Until they find charges on her credit card at a local casino and a note signed by Molly telling her family she just had to walk away... but Nic, her oldest daughter, isn’t buying it and when a tip comes in she’s brought back to the town of Hastings to find her mother, dead or alive! The POV switches from Nic to Molly; the former going through her attempts at finding her mother and the latter discussing her experience with the man she knows as Mick and his daughter Alice. The twists in this book seriously had me re-reading the page thinking to myself “wait, WHAT??” and I think I actually said holy sh*t out loud at one point! I really enjoyed Wendy Walker’s other book, The Night Before and will now be adding all of her others to my TBR pile!! Fantastic job Ms. Walker!

I've never read Wendy Walker before, and I was NOT disappointed! If anyone remembers Under the Beetles Cellar by Mary Willis Walker, the pacing and tension are reminiscent of her great books. Love it, fan for life! Thank you!

This book was one crazy ride! It had many twists and turns that had me on the edge of my seat. Definitely one twisted read and I loved it! The vibe is dark. I LOVED that I didn’t figure out the ending! It’s refreshing not to figure out who did it or how it would end before the actual ending. Very well done, Miss Walker. The characters were pretty good. Some I felt for and some I wished they had gotten theirs. There’s a lot of emotional scenes. I did tear up at some of them. This was such a smashing and thrilling read! I was thoroughly engaged and didn’t stop reading till I got to the end. Fabulous! I look forward to reading more books by this author. I give this 5 stars.

A good mystery thriller that kept me guessing. There were enough twists that I didn’t figure it out immediately, and I finished reading it in one sitting because it was compelling enough.
I wish the end had given a better view of what the characters’ lives looked like, and a more detailed picture of how things were resolved. Overall I enjoyed the book.

Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker sucks the reader in from the very beginning. What happened to Molly Clarke? Did she just walk away from her family or has something more sinister happened? This book was a little creepy at times and had a few twists and turns. Overall, I liked it; I'm just not sure if the ending worked for me. I would definitely recommend this book to fans of the thriller/suspense genre. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Oh, my gosh! Wendy Walker’s book kept me on the edge of my seat. Just when I thought I knew who was behind the whole thing, another clue would pop up.
Molly Clarke has had a bad few years. She has to live with the fact that she hit and killed her young daughter with the car. Never mind that the police have cleared her completely, Molly feels guilty. All of this has impacted her relationships with her husband, son and other daughter.
Molly is on the road returning from watching her son’s game (he’s away at school), when she realizes she has waited too long to get gas. There’s a huge storm going on, and the power is out in the area, so the gas station is closed. Her cell is not working, and she is unsure about what to do, when a man and his daughter stop to check on her. Molly reluctantly accepts a ride — and the story begins.
You can’t go wrong with this book.

great book. good plot, interesting characters. interesting cover. never figured out the bad guy. recommend this book.

I absolutely loved this book. There were many unexpected twists to the plot that I just didn’t see coming. I will definitely look for more from this author!

I truly felt for Molly, the mother in this story.  Years ago she accidentally hit and killed her 9 year old daughter, Annie, five years prior, and nobody in her family has let her forget it.  Not her husband, her son Evan or her oldest daughter Nicole. So when she feels like running away and never returning I don't really blame her.  When she runs out of gas on her way home from her son's college she hitches a ride still with the feeling of leaving it all behind....until the doors lock when she gets inside the vehicle.

When Molly doesn't come home, her daughter and husband go to Hastings Pass where her car is found not far from the little town.  After a search, Molly is classified as a walk-away. Thankfully Nicole doesn't buy it especially after she receives a phone call from a lady that claims she saw her mom that night.  Giving her a detailed description of the vehicle sparks new hope inside Nicole. Unfortunately her dad was already distancing himself from Molly so life was business as usual, and he didn't go back to help Nicole follow the new lead.  Gosh I disliked the dad/husband so much! So what if your marriage is spiraling! You don't have to act like it's just another day when your wife is missing.

The chapters alternate on days.  For Molly it's how long she's been away from her family, and for Nicole it's how many days her mom has been missing.

I will say there are a lot of players and it was hard to keep up with at first.  I can't say anymore or that would be spoiling it! Grab your copy September 15, 2020!

Thank you St. Martin's Press, Wendy Walker and NetGalley for the ARC.

Book Rating: 4/5

For the grand finale this would pair nicely with The Collection Cabernet Sauvignon.

This was a good one! 😍 it might be my favourite of hers! This one was thrilling and heartbreaking all at once.

It was also a different kind of thriller in terms of the plot which I found so refreshing!

Comes out this September!

A compelling quick mystery. Told in alternating, parallel voices. A bit implausible but well written, creepy and exciting.

This is chock-full of red herrings. I had no idea who the bad guy was, kept me guessing the entire time. The twist fell a bit flat for me. I hope this goes through a good copy/line edit before being published.

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of the ARC.

Exceptionally unique and unputdownable. Highly enjoyable with twists that won’t let you sit down the book. Must read!

A very well written psychological thriller about a mother unloved by her family decides to walk away and the events that follow. Told in the perspective of the mother and the daughter with red herrings along the way. The guilt of each character is dealt nicely after good research. The final twist was unexpected. A must read for fans of psychological thrillers. Recommended.

Wendy Walker knows how it is done. This book is excellent. It is faced paced and twisty and turny. He held my attention and I was reading the book while making supper. Wonderfully written, sucked in from the get go. Will definitely continue to read this authors books.

I was given this book in exchange for my honest review

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley.
This is a mystery/thriller about a woman, a mother, who is kidnapped and locked in a room at a deserted home. When she went missing, her family thought perhaps she had run away. She had accidentally killed one of her daughters some years before by accidentally running her over with her car. Her relationships with her other daughter and her son had become strained. Meanwhile, she suspected her husband of having an affair with another woman.
The woman's daughter decide to try to find her. She encounters all kinds of people, law enforcement officials and other citizens of a nearby town. All of these people are possible connections to the disappearance of the mother and the disappearance of another woman some time before.
The book has a fast pace and is suspenseful. But the characters were plentiful and not presented in any kind of depth. It became confusing. Further, the premise of the book, and much of the activity in it, was not very believable.

Thank you for the publishers for providing me an advanced copy of this book.

The story follows a mom who accidentally has killed her child. Five years later she finds herself miles from home, car out of gas, having a mental breakdown. She accepts a ride from strangers ... and disappears.

The book progresses from here ... what happened?

People walk away from their lives every day. Especially when the pain at home is unbearable. But is that what happened to Molly Clarke?

When her car is found abandoned on the side of a road, out of gas, during a storm, the police and her family search everywhere for her. False leads and suspicious people make the search difficult. 

A note is found at the only hotel telling her family not to look for her. But her daughter is not buying it. She is determined to find her mother. Believing there is no way she would abandon them. 

Everyone in this little town is sketchy. I didn't believe any of them. The suspense in this thriller built layer by layer until I was reading at warp speed!

This was a heartbreaking story of loss, guilt, insanity and what women will do to survive.

The question is what did happen to Molly Clarke? And will her daughter live to find out?

One very well done book!

NetGalley/ September 15th, 2020 by St. Martin's Press

Wendy Walker has had a lot of success of late but this novel is far from her best work. The premise was hardly believable even though almost anything now has some credibility because the world has become absurd. I found myself leafing through to finish some sections that were very repetitive. The characters were scantily drawn and I could not empathize. Only Alice, the nine year old seemed real. When it finally ended, I felt relief I was at the end of this so called thriller.