The Lost Night

Amazon.com Review\nAn Amazon Best Book of March 2019: So many unreliable narrators headline thrillers these days, you'd think human beings have an innate problem with telling the difference between truth and lies, even to ourselves. (Oh, wait. Maybe we do.) But Lindsay Bach, the main narrator of Andrea Bartz's hypnotic The Lost Night, is cut from a different cloth. She's never doubted she was at a concert the night her best friend, Edie, committed suicide ten years ago—at least until another friend states just as unequivocally that Lindsay never arrived. Now Edie's "suicide" is questionable as well, as Lindsay unearths a rats' nest of secrets but finds just as many holes in her own memory. As Lindsay assembles old Facebook photos, conversations with former friends, shaky memories, and an equally shaky handheld video recording, the truth of that night draws closer, even as Lindsay wonders if she can handle knowing what really happened. Bartz drops enough hints that some readers will pat themselves on the backs for spotting the big reveal, while others will gasp. As Brooklyn's drug-fueled hipster scene transmutes between glorious and grimy, nostalgic and toxic, Bartz's debut thriller achieves a complex, murky depth perfectly designed to hide the facts Lindsay so desperately desires and fears. —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review