Gone Tonight

Thrilling novel from Sarah Pekkanen, normally part of the writing team with Gail Hendricks who've released countless page turners like the Wife Between Us.

Gone Tonight was written similarly to those, toggling between two POVs, Ruth who was a runaway teen mom now in her 40s and Catherine, her daughter now 24 years old working as a nurse in a retirement home. Catherine gets the job opportunity she's been waiting for at Johns Hopkins, but that would mean she'd have to move away from mother, the only parent and family she's known her whole life. When Ruth suddenly develops early onset Alzheimers, knowing what she knows about how this illness progress, Catherine decides she must decline this job opportunity to stay and care for her mother. When she starts to dig deeper into her mother's life, however, many things don't add up. She's then suspicious of her mother faking her illness in order to control her life and keep her close.... but why? The more she digs up, the more thrilling the story gets.

Despite a few questionable details in the Ruth chapters describing the past, I thoroughly enjoyed this read. Well-paced and exciting story with great character development. Great exploration into the complicatedness of a mother-daughter relationship.

The audiobook was narrated by actress Kate Mara, who of course read fantastically throughout. A great, fun and cozy weekend read.

Big thanks to Netgalley for the ARC copy.