I have read all of Chris Pavone's books and really liked them all. This is a good mystery and very different from what I have read from him before. I found the start of the book to be very interesting. The main character is the wife of a business man. They have recently wed and are on their honeymoon when the husband disappears. The wife is franticly searching for him but encounters many obstacles. They are in Lisbon with a language barrier that doesn't help the situation. She realizes that she really doesn't know her husband and that is when the story gets really good.
This is a good book for anyone that enjoys a good mystery.

Ariel Pryce hasn't been married long, so when her husband suggests that she accompany him on a business trip to Lisbon, she agrees. It is to be somewhat of a honeymoon and the first night lives up to that promise. A great meal, a lovely hotel and a night of passion. But when Ariel wakes up the next morning, her husband isn't in the room. At first she thinks he must be walking or eating breakfast but when he doesn't return and she notices belongings he should have with him still in the room, she starts to worry.

She goes to the police but they think she is an overanxious wife. She tries the American Embassy but the same thing happens. Unsure where to turn, she is given a cell phone on the street by a stranger and then it rings. John has been kidnapped and the ransom is three million in cash within two days.

Ariel doesn't know what to do. She and John are middle class and don't have anything like that kind of money. She calls her first husband who is wealthy but he isn't willing to help. Finally, she is forced to make a call she hoped she would never have to make to the man with whom she shares a dark secret but who is the only person she knows who has that kind of money.

Chris Pavone is a thriller writer whose work has been awarded most of the awards in this genre. In this clever mystery, each chapter starts with the time and the day which increases the tension as Ariel's deadline to pay the ransom inches closer and closer. I listened to this book and the narrator's declaration of the time as each chapter started increased the tension. There are many twists and turns which I didn't see coming and a very satisfactory ending. This book is recommended for mystery and thriller fans.

A fantastic summer read that I think readers of all ages would thoroughly enjoy. I highly recommend this book, especially if you want something to keep you full wondering what will happen next. Great book overall

I tried SO HARD to get into this book and I simply could not. I could not care about the main characters nor the story line.

This was a great read! I really enjoyed it. There was a lot of surprises and twists and turns. And that ending! Wow!! The audiobook version was terrific and really brought the story to life.

I could not get enough of this audiobook! I wanted to speed it up because I was obsessed with the storyline but I wanted to slow it down to savor it. Ariel finds herself in a sticky situation where she realizes that she may not know as much as she thinks she does about her husband and their life together, but it will not stop her from trying to figure it out. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a copy of this book for an honest review.

I have tried twice to get into this one; first when I initially received an arc audiobook and then again over a year later. I love thrillers and suspense stories but for some reason just have not been able to get into this one. I’ll give it another chance at some point but for now I have several others that have more of my interest and attention.

I loved the beginning of this book. It was exciting and gave me Taken vibes for a second. But then it just kept going and going. By the end I felt exhausted. The only thing that kept me going was that genuinely shocking things would happen and I would want to know more. The audiobook definitely made it so I finished this one, if I had been reading it I probably would have gotten tired and stopped before the end.

When Ariel wakes up in Lisbon her husband is missing and she knows something is very wrong. But when she goes to the US Embassy and the local police, they are suspicious of her for not knowing much about him or what his business is in Lisbon. Then she gets a ransom demand and a warning not to tell anyone so Ariel is on her own. This is a fast-paced thriller that kept me guessing until the last page.

Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, and her husband is gone. John is missing and Ariel immediately tries to piece together where he could be and why is he gone? She reached out to the Hotel, the embassy and gets no where. Just dead ends at every turn. Ariel can’t understand how she know so little about her husband. This story has twists and turns. How does Ariel get things figured out? Can she get the right answers and find her way home? Who can she trust? This was a fast paced listen. January LaVoy is an excellent narrator. I want to thank Netgalley & Macmillan Audio for my copy for an honest review. It was my pleasure to listen and review Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone.

I enjoyed the narration of this book, and it began well. However, sometimes during times of high anxiety I cannot deal with the additional stresses of a main character who has things going so terribly wrong at every turn! I did not finish, but put it back on my TBR to try at a different time when in a different frame of mind! For readers who do not experience high anxiety, this should be a great read!

I’ve enjoyed all of Chris Pavone’s novels, but this one (in addition to being the usual edge-of-your-seat wild ride) had a little something extra.

Generally I’m not a fan of novels that center around a rape/sexual assault plot line. This is especially true if the book is written by a man. But while this is a very tough read in some ways, the subject was handled so well (probably the best I’ve seen by a male writer), and it has a very satisfying revenge arc.

I do wish (and here’s a huge trigger warning)that Pavone hadn’t chosen to use on-page, graphically described rape. It’s very difficult to read, likely quite triggering for a lot of women, and the story would not suffer at all from this event taking place off page.

That, however, is my one complaint, and I’m in awe of how well Pavone did with the subject matter in general. Since I complain a lot about the way male writers write female characters and especially the way they write from the perspective of female characters, I ought to give credit when a male author goes the other direction and actually writes from the perspective of a woman like a person who, y’know, actually knows and listens to women. That, to me, is what makes this one stand out from Pavone’s other novels, all of which are smart, fun thrillers like this one as well.

If you like revenge plots (and for anything with a rape-driven central story I basically insist on it), this is a sharp, satisfying one. You can guess a lot of what’s happening if you’re paying close attention relatively early in the book, but there’s plenty of elements to keep you guessing right up to the epilogue, and a few correct guesses on my part about where the story might be going didn’t hamper my enjoyment of it at all.

This is terrific in audiobook format, with a great narrator and pacing, and the story lends itself well to audio also.

DNF. Another thriller with a great premise that was wayyyy too long! Without the self-inserted pontification from the author, this would have been shorter and I would have liked it more. A thriller with a message is always fun, but there were less on-the-nose ways too pull this off, IMO. It was clumsy, and the narrator strikes me as a ham-handed character forced to be unlikeable to make the author's storytelling job easier. Easier does not mean better. Think I will skip his future releases.

I had both the physical and audiobook formats of TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON, and ended up sticking to the audio version, narrated by January LaVoy, which is one of my favorite narrators. She did a fantastic job at really capturing the tone and narrative of the characters.

This story follows a woman named Ariel who accompanies her husband on a business trip, only to discover him missing when she wakes up one morning.

*many thanks to Macmillan Audio and netgalley for the gifted copy for review

I liked reading this book.. Tho it seems like I have read one with a similar plot not too long ago. It was slow reading the first several chapters, and seemed easy to anticipate

Two days to find your husband but only six months to make him yours. This is almost too fast-paced and I got a bit tired of it. The ending, however. Worth reading every word.

I started this book on audiobook however I found it confusing and it wasn’t keeping my interest. I switched over to the ebook and almost immediately I was all caught up, interested and engrossed. I felt the intensity, the sense of urgency and I flew through the pages, loving every minute of this story!

Usually, vacations are for resting and relaxing and enjoying a change of scenery. But in the audio edition of Two Nights in Lisbon by author Chris Pavone, a relaxing vacation quickly turns terrifying for an American in Portugal when she suddenly finds herself alone and in trouble...

Full review published on NightsAndWeekends.com - and aired on Shelf Discovery

1.5 rounded up.

I will keep this one short and sweet since this book was not for me.

Like other thrillers, readers will notice potholes and question how characters knew information or how something was missed, etc., but this story had so many holes you could mistake it for cheese. I ended up needing to finish the book to see if my guess was correct, otherwise I would’ve put it down less than half way through.

There’s not a character in this book worth liking as they’re all whiny and never seem to make an informed decision. It’s very much like watching a scary movie and wanting to yell at the TV screen because the characters run into the dark house where the killer is hiding.

Big sigh, bigger eye rolls.

I could write a lot more, but they’d be straight up spoilers.

Big thank you to Grand Central Publishing for the ARC.

Content warnings: rape, kidnapping, drugs, gaslighting, and more but they would be spoilers

Great read and I enjoyed the narrator. Kept my interest throughout the entire story. Would definitely recommend.