I love how I can get completely lost in a Laura Dave thriller without feeling super stressed, I was just desperate to turn the pages.

The Night We Lost Him was about disconnected siblings and the loss of their beloved father. The key protagonists were Nora and Sam, two estranged siblings who began to suspect their father's death was not straight forward. Liam, their father, wasn't exactly husband of the year but he was a caring dad.

Through regular but brief flashbacks from Liam's early adulthood, a story of connection to a woman was revealed but it took until the last 10% of the story for me to really piece this together. When the big reveal came, I had to go back and reread a few pages, thinking I'd misunderstood but all while suspecting that Dave was twisting me all up... she was.

I romped through this story of relationships and I enjoyed the lower thriller stakes it brought. Somehow, it was also full of emotion. The length of the story was just right. I'll always pick this author's books, they deliver that shorter thrilling ride.

Thank you to Century Books for the eARC.