This was a really good book. A wonderful thriller with so many twists and turns. I couldn’t put the book down.

Thank you Netgalley for this advanced audio edition of Every Moment Since by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen.

This was such a well constructed book. It's centered around a little boy who went missing more than twenty years ago, but the heart of the story is really around the main people that his disappearance affected, as well as their part that they played. You have his mother, his brother, his friend, and the man originally suspected of his disappearance.

Each chapter is given through their perspective, the aftermath and trauma that they've experienced, as well as the relationships with each other. It's full of anguish, forgiveness, love, and a very slow unfolding of what actually happened that fateful day.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, it was not what I expected, it was much more gentle, loving, and heartbreaking. Highly recommend.

Every Moment Since
Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

The setting is Wynotte, North Carolina, 2006. Everyone in town knows eleven years old Davy Malcor. If they didn’t know him personally, they would have seen his picture. A boy in a plaid jacket just like the one Marty McFly wore in the movie Back to the Future. They may have seen a video of him juggling four balls. A plaid jacket has been found, the same jacket he was given for his birthday; the same jacket he was wearing when he disappeared. The jacket was last seen on Davy Malcor when he went missing in 1985. The cold case has been reopened.
Four people were all connected to Davy and the night he disappeared.
On the night Davy disappeared his parents had left Thaddeus aka TJ, in charge of watching Davy. Thaddeus is profiting from his brother’s disappearance. He has written a bestselling book concerning the nightmare his family went through when Davy disappeared.
Davy’s parents are divorced; his mother, Tabitha is still living in the family home and is a victim’s advocate.
Anissa Weaver is a Public Information Officer. She is the family’s liaison. She saw and talked to Davy the night Davy disappeared. She is determined no one will discover her secret.
Gordon Swift was the main suspect in the disappearance of Davy. He was never tried in a court of law. He has carried the burden of suspicion for twenty years.
The story moves back and forth between past and present.
This tale is more than a mystery. It demonstrates the emotions of the family and friends of Davy Malcor. This tale shows the face of grief and hope; it examines how tragedy spreads much like a pebble thrown into a pool of water; the ripples spread in a widening circle around. Many people were affected by one child’s disappearance.
Thank you NetGalley for the review copy.

I listen to the audio book. I stopped listening so many times because it didn’t hold my interest, but I was hoping it would turn around. I found the story was simply and was just retold by many characters that really added nothing to
the story at all. I don’t like giving negative reviews, but this won was a dud for me.

"Every Moment Since" is a poignant exploration into the different and distinct ways members of a family and a community deal with a tragic situation. When a little boy goes missing one night less than a mile from his home, an entire small town must come to grips with the disappearance and its aftermath. It's now 20 years later, and the little boy is still missing, but a man who has recently purchased some property close to where the boy was last seen finds his jacket in an outbuilding. An investigation long cold suddenly has new life.

If you're looking for a police procedural, though, or a classic whodunit, that's not what you'll find here. This story is so much more personal than that. We follow several characters connected with that night: Thaddeus, the brother of the missing boy who has written a bestselling memoir about the disappearance, Tabitha, the mother who still lives in the house her family occupied at the time; Gordan Swift, the local artist who was the prime suspect in the case; and Anissa, who now works for the police but was present on the night of the disappearance. In amongst these chapters, we get flashbacks to that night 20 years ago and also excerpts from Thaddeus's book, and it's all blended together to create a seamless narrative of the upheaval and tragedy that this event brings to the entire community.

This is an excellent look at guilt and grief from so many different angles. Although we do want to know what happened, that's not really the point. Rather, we get to know each individual involved, and we get a clear glimpse into how their lives continue to be affected by a long ago tragedy. It's heartbreaking at times, but also uplifting and hopeful to watch as people move through the tragedy and find ways to go forward. This book will appeal to mystery fans, but it will also appeal to those looking for a book about family, small town community, and how we all need to come together when life is hard.

This was such a good book. I would have finished in a day if I was reading it, but I had the audio and didn’t have many opportunities to listen. It was a well done audio book though, and such a gripping story.
I have never read anything by Whalen, but I absolutely will read her again.
This book was about a missing boy, but I feel like it clung so closely to the emotions of the characters involved that I was more focused on them and less on what happen to Davy the night of his disappearance.
Don’t get me wrong, I was curious what happened, but I was so swept up by the people mourning him, I forgot to try and figure out who could have made him disappear.
This book is devastating, but also beautiful in ways.
I enjoyed listening. 4⭐️
Thank you Netgalley for the AAC

This wonderful story is an examination on how one tragedy can spread out and affect the lives of so many on a personal level. The story grabbed me right from the beginning and was gripping all the way through. Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for a chance to read and review this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced copy of this audiobook.

The narration of the audiobook was stunning. The prose flowed and carried the story through multiple voices, each with its own distinct tone and personality. I was carried away by the story and am so glad I was able to experience it on audio. I'd say I enjoyed the story even more because of it. It is beautifully told.

This is the story of a boy who goes missing in 1985 - the year Back to the Future was released - while playing in a field under his brother's care. When his jacket is suddenly recovered, another media storm ensues. The pace is slow but full of emotion. There’s no shock ending, although it is resolved.

But this isn't just the story of his disappearance; it's a profound exploration into the lives of four people who were forever changed by the events. Told through multiple perspectives, the reader is taken on an emotional journey of love, hope and redemption.

Highly recommend!

I really enjoyed this audiobook until about 2 hours from the end. I feel like the momentum toward the ending fell flat, and that stinks. I don't think there was a shock like I was hoping. That is on me, not the author, for automatically assuming there would be more excitement though.

I will say, I really loved ALL the different character perspectives and adding in flashbacks could have made the story a hot mess, but it was done in a way that wasn't confusing, which is a huge plus. I really really enjoyed how this book was written and the narration was fantastic.

This cast of narrators is off the charts! I am a huge fan of Cassandra Campbell, who did a wonderful job narrating, as always. I also really enjoyed listening to George Newbern, Kirby Heyborne, Jane Oppenheimer, MacLeod Andrews, and Renata Friedman. The narrators did an excellent job narrating each character. They were all easy to understand with easy to listen voices. 5 stars for the narrators.

As a mother, I did not love the idea behind the story, but the story was written very well. I wanted to keep listening, and I was hopeful for some sort of happy ending. The ending surprised me, as I did not see that coming. A lot of the characters held a lot of guilt, and it was a very heavy listen.

It was a well written book with an A+ group of narrators. I am not "in love" with the book because of the storyline, but it was a good book. I appreciated the recognition given to all the unsolved missing children cases (so trajoic.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Focus for the advance listen in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

while this book is centered on davy’s disappearance, we experience the story through the POV’s of the people closest to him and profoundly impacted by his disappearance. his mother, his brother, the girl who was with davy that fateful night, and the man accused. also sprinkled in are flashback chapters that fully explain the events of the night he went missing. it feels like a character study on each of the 4 POV’s and we get to witness their growth and see them experience some closure when the mystery is finally solved.

big pro to this audiobook - full cast narration. i absolutely appreciate when each character has their own voice. it adds so much depth to the audiobook experience so this was a thumbs up for me!

i did find myself longing for some crazy ending but as i’ve reflected on the book, i’m realizing that a crazy ending wasn’t necessary. it’s almost more heartbreaking how the story came to a close. makes it feel less like fiction and more like real life because not every life experience has some bomb dropping ending. you’ll have to read to find out ;)

love love loved the name of the town - “wynotte” pronounced “why not”. for some reason i giggled when i realized that was how it was pronounced.

thank you NetGalley and Harper Muse for the audiobook!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The setting of this book felt like my hometown. I grew up playing night games in corn fields like the young boy in this book who goes missing. Twenty years later a new piece of evidence is found and everyone is taken back to that horrible night.

I enjoyed the multiple points of view and different narrators for each. I consumed this audiobook in one day. I couldn’t stop. It is that good!

Thank you NetGalley, HarperCollins Focus | Harper Muse, and Marybeth Mayhew Whalen for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Book Title: Every Moment Since
Author: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Format: 🎧
Narrators: Cassandra Campbell, George Newbern, Katy Heyborne, and Jane Oppenheimer
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus/Harper Muse
Genre: Mystery Thriller. Women’s Fiction
Pub Date: October 1, 2024
My Rating: 4.3 Stars
Pages: 336

Story takes places in in Wynotte, North Carolina, where everyone knows of eleven year-old Davy Malcor. They may not know him but have seen his picture and knows the ‘Marty McFly’ jacket his mother made for his birthday. But no one really knows what happened October 12, 1985 the night Davy went missing.
Now twenty years later Davy’s jacket has been found in an abandoned building. An investigation and search are now taking place.
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Story is told from the POV of
-Thaddeus Malcor ~ Davy’s older brother. Twenty years ago he was known as TJ and was l in charge of Davy at the time Davy went missing. Thaddeus now has written a bestselling memoir about the event.

•Tabitha Malcor ~ Davy’s mother and is still living in the same house but now alone as she and Davy’s father have split.

•Anissa Weaver a Public Information Officer with the police once knew Davy and actually talked with him THAT night- but has been keeping this a secret.

• Gordon Swift is the man long suspected of having something to do with Davy as he and his brother’s friends were on Swifts property that night. The older boys did this often and Swift hates that they are sneaking around on his property.

-Philip ~ one of TJ friends and the one who got the beer for the night out.


I love a good audiobook and this one was great. The many narrators were ALL great in performing the characters.
I was glued to this story.
I read a lot of thriller and am suspicious of the many characters. I knew a couple were guilt of ‘something’ but I also know the most obvious never - whodunit.

The Marybeth Mayhew Whalen tells us in her ‘Author Notes’ that she was inspired to write this story actually many years ago when she saw two movies with a similar plot. She kept the idea on the ‘back burner; as she wanted to tell the story and be sensitive to the feelings especially of the mother.
I believe she did a good job and this audiobook was spot on!

Want to thank NetGalley and HarperCollins Focus/Harper Muse and for this outstanding audiobook.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for October 1, 2024.

This is a sad and heavy story about how profoundly the character’s lives are all changed by the disappearance of Davy. The story grabbed me right from the beginning and was gripping all the way through. The characters are well developed and the performance on audio by a full cast is excellent. I thought the author did a great job with the conclusion of Davy’s disappearance and there were some bittersweet yet hopeful changes for the characters. I highly recommend this one.

Every Moment Since by Whalen was interesting from the view of the family left behind after a child goes missing. I thought it was okay.

Wow. This is a great book. Touching without being sappy. Fantastic writing. I enjoyed the use of different p.o.v.’s to tell the story, along with the different periods of time. Whalen did a beautiful job of creating dynamic characters; they had more depth to them than the typical thriller books I read. This was my first book by Whalen and I’m going to check out her earlier works.

4.5 ⭐️

I had gone into this one not really knowing anything much about the book and I’m glad I did. This way I could just let the story sweep me away. It was emotional, captivating, funny at times and overall just a great read. You got to feel for and with each character. The different perspectives added a depth to the story that I wouldn’t have wanted to miss.

What I really enjoyed about the audiobook were the multiple narrators. They each did a fantastic job, giving a soul to the characters. It also helped keeping track of which character was telling their part of the story which can get tricky at times when listening to audiobooks.

This was such a good one! Honestly from the first few chapters I was hooked. I listened to the audio of this book & I absolutely loved all the different narrators. Cassandra Campbell, George Newbern, Kirby Heyborne, Jane Oppenheimer, MacLeod Andrews, & Renata Friedman all did such a great job!

I really enjoyed having 4 POVs & some of the flashbacks. At first I thought the POVs would be hard to follow, but they really weren’t & I enjoyed the different perspectives. This was a really great story from a families perspective of what they really might be feeling & going through when they have a child go missing. It definitely hit me in the feels a few times as a mother. Marybeth did a great job of setting the scene & I loved finding out bits of what actually happened as the book went on.

Plus I always love a book set in NC❤️

Would definitely recommend adding it to your TBR!

Thank you to NetGalley, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen & Harper Muse for an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you to #netgalley and Harper Collins for the chance to read this ARC and give my honest opinion.

Four lives are changed forever when a little boy goes missing. Two decades later they come back together as a discovery may lead to the truth of what happened to Davey Malcor. This book follows his mother, Tabitha. His brother, Thaddeus who has since written a memoir about Davey's disappearance. Gordon Swift the man who has been accused and acquitted for being the one to kidnap him. And Anissa, the little girl who met her new best friend and lost him in the same day. She was the last person to see him alive twenty years ago and now she's the public information officer on his case as it gets reopened.

This book was hauntingly beautiful. It not only changes point of views but goes back and forth between now and what happened when Davey goes missing. Marybeth Whalen had me on the hook throughout the book waiting for answers like I was a part of Davey's family. Though this book is fiction, in the beginning the author notes that this book is dedicated to a handful of people who actually went missing. You could tell she really did her best to do it justice and make the story real. The narrators were fantastic and switched between female and male and you could clearly tell who was speaking in the chapter based on the voices they did for each character.

Even though the subject is tough this was a quick and easy read/listen and I highly recommend this for anyone who loves a mystery. According to my netgalley this releases September 30th.

Thank you to NetGalley, HarperCollins Focus | Harper Muse, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, for this ARC of “Every Moment Since” out October 1, 2024

I was instantly intrigued by this book from the prologue. I’ve enjoyed true crime and have listened to lots of podcasts. At the beginning, Marybeth Maybew Whalen dedicated this book to a few boys who went missing. Jacob Wetterling was one of them who went missing in 1989. I am very familiar with his story and felt like she did a great job bringing many aspects of that horrific incident to life. There were multiple perspectives and timelines but it was easy to follow. This was a slow burn story about a missing boy and everyone who wants to find out what happened to him.

⭐️Overall Rating: 4.5 stars

This novel was provided by the publisher, via Net Galley, in exchange for my honest review.