This novel is the story of a cold case, of the disappearance of a troubled young woman.

Twenty years later her despised step-brother Bobby receives a call from a girl claiming to be his sister's daughter. She has a piece of jewellery to prove it. But her university accommodation phone number turns out to be fake. What could be going on?

Át first, it seems things are going fine for Bobby Kirby: despite a difficult early life he has a job, wants for nothing, has a loving wife, and a child. When cracks suddenly appear in this picture however, Bobby feels intensely motivated to get to the bottom of what really happened to his sister.

This story simultaneously follows the days leading up to the sister's, Brooke's, disappearance. From both sides of the story, a violent, dysfunctional demimonde of drugs, violence and deprivation open up - alongside a whiff of real evil literally hiding in the shadows for Bobby.

No one proves to be quite what they seem as the story progresses, and no one completely innocent either, with Bobby being confronted with realities even earlier interventions did not touch.

Sometimes the sheer baseness in the way way some of the characters in this book behave in family settings just comes across as truly dreary. From that perspective the redemption of one or two characters seemed a little unrealistic

This is not a neat whodunit, the novel leaves loose ends in its wake, which some may well say would better reflect the messiness of real life, though some of these loose ends were also somewhat unsatisfying, at least for this reader.

Unfortunately, this was a DNF for me. I did not connect with the main character, and I did not enjoy reading from his perspective. This book was just not for me. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

What a suspenseful psychological thriller with familial drama and a heart-pounding mystery!

I absolutely loved this novel and appreciated the writing style of the author. The twists and turns in this story had me rubbing my neck from all the whiplash….but in a good way. I was captivated by the way the story was written in a dual timeline / dual POV, traipsing back and forth between present day and the past. It felt like the story was a gripping but slow unraveling of what really happened that night, all those years ago.

This was a super good atmospheric read for me, enoying the chilling setting while wrapped warmly in my blanket. I was left turning page after page and had to take a break a few times to regroup and start again. As the mystery unfurls and we get more and more details, the struggling family dynamics are put to the test and we learn more about Brooke, her supposed daughter Lily and her step-brother Robert. These characters were well developed and I was really able to put myself in their shoes. I think the ending could have been a titch better, so I took off one star for that.

Currently on KU for FREE, so if you’re looking for a dark atmospheric read with familial drama and want to be in the winter season setting, this one id for you!

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Certainly love the premise, Brooke, a young woman disappears into a snowy night. 20-yeara later, her stepbrother is paid a visit by a woman claiming to be Brooke's daughter. Domestic suspense from an author I've enjoyed for years.

This was very atmospheric and suspenseful! I really enjoyed it and have already recommended to several of my reader friends!

This one started a little slow for me but then really picked up and got my attention. I love the alternating timelines and they way the author moved through the transitions so seamlessly. I loved the layers to this story. Several times, I thought I had it figured out and it would twist again and surprise me. It completely was not what I expected - but the author does a perfect job of bringing all the storylines together. I will definitely recommend this to thriller lovers.

I struggled with getting going but overall this was a good book! The book opens up in the past on a snowy winter night and switches to present day through separate point of views. This is one my favorite formats to read.

All Who Wander is a dark, twisty, familial thriller that will keep you coming back.

I loved the characters of Brooks and Bobby and their sibling relationship and how it played into the intense mystery in a small town that this book takes you . It’s an intense but good mystery
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review book

Brooke and Bobby are brought up in the most dysfunctional of families. The mother a former sex worker had abandoned her in the past with her violent alcoholic dad and only returned home, with Bobby, her half brother when she was dying of cancer. Struggling with her nursing studies, Brooke is well into drugs and has an abusive boyfriend. One winters night there is a crisis and she jumps in her car to drive north and leave it all behind. She is never seen or heard of again, and is suspected to be the victim of a now dead serial killer. Spool on twenty years and Bobby is a respected university professor with a wife and son. But suddenly his perfect life falls apart. He has a visit from a young woman claiming to be Brooke's daughter. He is wary and starts to look into what the police know about her disappearance. There is plenty of action and some gruesome violence. A rattling read.

This was a much more intense mystery than I anticipated - and I loved it! Brooke and Bobby are half siblings in a broken, unloving family. One night, Brooke disappears and is never heard from again. Bobby has struggled with his past and questions about Brooke’s disappearance, but he’s built a good life - successful college teacher, husband and father. But then Lily shows up claiming to be Brooke’s daughter and things start to go off the rails. A highly entertaining story!

Joe Clifford is becoming one of my top ten authers. All Who Wander is set in wintery upstate New York. It is 1998 and Brook, a young troubled woman decides to run from spiraling circumstances that could land her in prison or worse. Driving in the freezing and story NY State winter, Brook is never seen again.
In the present, Brooks younger half-brother, Robert is visited by someone claiming to be Brook's daughter. So starts Robert on his quest to discover what happened to Brook. But, in the hands of Joe Clifford, there is much, much more to come. He has a brilliant ability to write a character's inner dialog and psychological unraveling when the haze of denial and avoidance clear a road to the truth. With Joe Clifford, it basically never is what it seems. Hiw writing is that good. Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read this advanced copy of All Who Wander in exchange for my honest review.

Robert’s sister, Brooke, has been missing for nearly 20 years. So, when a young lady shows up claiming to be Brooke’s daughter, Robert knows he must reopen old wounds and a past he is not ready to face.

This story kept me on my toes. I knew something was hinky about Robert/Bobby and the disappearance of his sister Brooke. And there is more than one issue with her disappearance, there are multiple issues. And this novel just keeps building and building and THEN…You will have to read this to find out! And trust me! It is worth your time!

I am a huge fan of this author. All of his books are just a little bit different than the usual thriller. And this one is right up there with it. Now, I did feel the ending is a bit abrupt. But, my understanding is…there is going to be a sequel…I AM HERE FOR IT!

Need a good domestic, psychological thriller…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

I received this novel for a honest review.

At this point, I'm going to read anything Joe Clifford writes. He's that good. Every. Single. Book...All Who Wander, had my complete attention from the first page. I kept having to make myself slow down so I could enjoy the pace of the story as it was written. I wanted to get to the next chapter to find out what was coming. lol! I thought the alternating past and present chapters especially worked well telling this story and keeping the readers interest. Another stellar book from Joe Clifford!

3.5, rounded up to 4.

This was truly a thriller that left me wondering, WTF! The disappearance of Brooke Mulcahy was very similar to that of Maura Murray. As someone who was very interested in that case, I liked seeing the parallels between the disappearance in the plot and the real-life case. I really like how the author didn't introduce too many new characters. The same characters from before and after Brooke's disappearance were built on and worked within the plot. I enjoyed seeing Robert through Brooke's eyes and vice versa as Robert, Brooke's younger half-brother, still struggles without having closure from Brooke's disappearance. Lily's character did bother me a little bit as her role within the plot is exposed. I was also shocked by the ending and found it really didn't fit the rest of the story. I think there needed to be some more building on the ending as well as the "resolution" of the story. The ending didn't leave me satisfied and left me with a lot more questions than answers.

All Who Wander by Joe Clifford is an interesting and gripping psychological thriller. I picked this book up because the description had me really intrigued, and I was not disappointed.

The author has a very nice writing style, which meant that I flew through this book and found it hard to put down right from the very beginning. The use of flashbacks can sometimes be confusing and make the story seem muddled, but in this case it worked very well. The glimpses into the past that the author offered us not only helped to build a sense of mystery and suspense, but also allowed us to get an insight into Brooke's character that we otherwise would have missed. Being able to see the past events unfolding from Brooke's point of view was a clever addition to this novel and helped the readers to slowly form a picture of what happened leading up to Brooke's disappearance as well as getting a look at Brooke's mental state during this time. Throughout this book, the author is constantly hiding information; offering just enough to keep us wanting more but withholding the crucial details to keep us guessing and engrossed by the web of mystery that Joe Clifford spins.

The characters in this book were incredibly well written, and the author clearly has a very good understanding of the human brain/mental health. Each character was psychological evaluated by the author, with each of their morals and values being questioned throughout the novel. The author makes some interesting commentary on guilt, shame, remorse, childhood trauma and much more, all through the way he depicts his characters. Bobby was a brilliant example of this. He was not particularly likeable both in the past and present, nut the more the story unfolded, the more we realised why he had turned out the way he had. From Brooke's past perspective, Bobby is a useless child who she resents strongly and, therefore, she is terribly horrible to him, which make us feel sorry for him and develop a dislike towards Brooke. However, this "useless child" is completely contrasted by the strong, intelligent and successful Bobby who we see in the present day. We assume that he has healed all his past issues due to the flashy exterior he shows the world, but as the story unfolds we realise that actually his childhood trauma has left him with many scars that he is unable to hide. The fact that Bobby also did some bad things as a child was a different, but interesting, addition to the story. He holds onto a lot of shame and guilt for what he has done and never truly works through this, so it sits with him all the way until adulthood. All of Bobby's buried emotions cause him to be in constant emotional turmoil and he bottles it all up until he finally explodes towards the end of the book. His character really shows just how important going to therapy and speaking to someone about these issues can be.

Brooke's character was also cleverly written. At most points throughout this novel, she did not come off as particularly likeable, yet I still ended up feeling desperately sorry for her and wishing the hardships she was facing away. Having grown up in a broken household where her mum has left to start a new life, Brooke holds a lot of abandonment issues that are clear in her relationships with men. The way she treats Bobby is cruel and unfair, but we can almost understand where the hatred is coming for as we empathise that it must be horrible for your own mother to run away and leave you for many years. Brooke's choice to keep dating bad guys who caused her nothing but trouble simply because the nice guys were "boring" was infuriating at times, but again is understandable as she has no experience with healthy relationships considering her mum and dad never had a particularly happy marriage. This is also showing how Brooke's childhood trauma is affecting her years later, as she only feels comfortable when living in chaos, as that is all she knows. Brooke's relationship with Mike was frustrating, as the reader just wants to scream at her that she could do better than him, but only adds to the suspense in this novel. When we are trying to figure out why/how Brooke disappeared, the author is very good at dropping hints that Mike may have been involved, which keeps us on the edge of our seat desperately trying to work out the facts right up until the end. All of the characters in this book were cleverly crafted, but particular appreciation has to go to the incredible way in which the author has dived into the mental health aspect of Brooke and Bobby, and even their father in a miniscule way.

The ending of this book was a little disappointing as I did work out in my head what had happened about halfway through, but I still enjoyed the outcome nonetheless. The author did a great job at throwing suspicion on each character for their involvement in Brooke's disappearance so that we didn't get a clear picture of what happened until the very last chapter. Overall, I did thoroughly enjoy reading this book, but it wasn't necessarily unique and was simply an enjoyable run of the mill mystery thriller novel. The psychological aspects of this book is what made it so enjoyable, and the commentary on mental health and childhood trauma was a very clever addition to the story as a whole. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for an enjoyable read that will have your mind in overdrive and will keep you hooked from the first page until the last page.

I rated this book 4 out of 5 stars. Thank you to Netgalley and Joe Clifford for the ARC.

What starts as a simple "girl goes missing" story becomes a complex and haunting family story that far surpasses a thriller. It wasn't a quick and easy read, but the characters will stay with me for a long time. This is the first book I've read by Joe Clifford, but it won't be the last.

Good book from Clifford. In 1998, teenager Brooke Mulcahy's car is found after a bad accident but Brooke is not in the car. 21 years later, her stepbrother, Robert, gets a visit from a young woman, claiming that not only did Brooke survive the accident but that she is Brooke's daughter. Not knowing what to believe and who to trust, Robert opens this old wound trying to find the truth. I felt that there was some unanswered questions at the end so hoping there might be a sequel. Thanks to the author, publisher and Net Galley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

All Who Wander is a dark psychological thriller set in New England, by an author who is new to me. I received an invitation to read it from the publisher, and since I’m up to date with my NetGalley ARCs and thought the blurb sounded intriguing, decided to give it a go. I liked the writing and was drawn into the mystery, but ultimately was disappointed by the ending and didn’t like any of the characters.

Told in two timelines, this has 20 year old college dropout Brooke running away from her dysfunctional family and abusive boyfriend, only to crash her car during a snowstorm and disappear. Twenty two years later, her younger brother Robert is now a happily married professor of engineering, who has put his difficult childhood behind him and has just been awarded a prestigious prize. Then a young woman contacts him claiming to be Brooke’s daughter, and his life rapidly spirals out of control. As we alternate between their very different perspectives, the shocking reason behind Brooke’s fateful decision is revealed.

I enjoyed the writing, the tension and the twisty plot for most of this, which was why I was so disappointed by the “is that it?” ending which fails to wrap up most of the storyline and delivers some underwhelming twists. Neither Brooke nor Robert are remotely likeable - she steals drugs from dying patients and is horrible to her poor fat orphaned 14 year old brother Bobby, and he’s an arrogant judgemental knowitall. This wouldn’t matter if there was some kind of redemption in the plot, but it just leaves his fate unresolved. I also have an intense dislike of present tense narration which further put me off his chapters.

What I really didn’t like was the inclusion of a completely unnecessary episode of animal cruelty which is revealed to have been inflicted on Robert’s dog, although we don’t see it happening, and he does survive. Ironically Robert muses about Stephen King’s bemusement that he got more complaints from readers about hurting a fictional dog than any of the horrific things that he’s done to his human characters. When will authors learn? I’m sorry but if you have to put an apology for something in your afterword, maybe just go back and delete it? It wasn’t awful enough to stop me continuing the book, but it would put me off reading any more from this author.

Thanks to NetGalley and Square Tire Books for the ARC. All Who Wander is available now.

As a native Vermonter the setting in New England, New York, Vermont & Massachusetts, was fun and the winter weather descriptions were pretty accurate! There is a lot of sadness (and trigger warnings) in this book, between drug use, parental issues (abandonment, abuse, death), abusive relationships and criminal activity, you wanted to root for the characters but none were overly likable. I enjoyed the alternating time line of past and present slowly bringing you to present day, it was a little slow, things didn't start to really pick up until around 75%. The alternating narrators brought a unique perspective as well. An interesting read and something for those who like a cold case disappearance to consider.
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Thank you NetGalley and Square Tire Books for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Intricately woven with unlikeable and troubled characters. Some were actually horrid people. I did not like this book because of the dreadful and sad and depraved lives of many involved in the story. Thank you Netgalley and Square Tire Books for sending me this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. #AllWhoWander, #SquareTireBooks.