The Night We Lost Him - Laura Dave

Mystery/Suspense

Rating: 7.5/10

Nora and her estranged brother Sam have one thing in common; they believe that their father’s death from a fall from a cliff wasn’t an accident, they believe something nefarious was at play.

And there is no shortage of suspects that may have wished him harm; a competitor whose attempt at a takeover failed spectacularly, one of his three ex-wives or his business partners who are most definitely keeping secrets. The question is whether they are their own, or his.

The siblings soon embark on a road trip under the guise of uncovering the truth of what happened to their father, but it might be more about escaping the lives they have built for themselves. Lives that might not fit them anymore.

A novel that reads as a soulful suspense, a story of love wrapped in a mystery, and, perhaps most of all, a poignant, moving story of grief, grief for the dead, but also grief for lives unlived, love stories untold and families unbound.

Full disclosure, this book is less a whodunnit than an unravelling of the complex enigmas that can take up space in a family..

Book Pairing(s): Let Me Lie by Claire McIntosh, The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone