Forget You Know Me: A Novel

Jessica Strawser

Feb 2019 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

The next “masterful” (Publishers Weekly) novel from "the gifted Jessica Strawser" (Adriana Trigiani), hailed as “immensely satisfying” (Kathleen Barber) and “that book you can’t put down” (Sally Hepworth). A video call between friends captures a shocking incident no one was supposed to see.

The secrets it exposes threaten to change their lives forever.

Molly and Liza have always been enviably close. Even after Molly married Daniel, the couple considered Liza an honorary family member. But after Liza moved away, things grew more strained than anyone wanted to admit—in the friendship and the marriage.

When Daniel goes away on business, Molly and Liza plan to reconnect with a nice long video chat after the kids are in bed. But then Molly leaves the room to check on a crying child.

What Liza sees next will change everything.

Only one thing is certain: Molly needs her. Liza drives all night to be at Molly’s side—but when she arrives, the reception is icy, leaving Liza baffled and hurt. She knows there’s no denying what she saw.

Or is there?

In disbelief that their friendship could really be over, Liza is unaware she’s about to have a near miss of her own.

And Molly, refusing to deal with what’s happened, won’t turn to Daniel, either.

But none of them can go on pretending. Not after this.

Forget You Know Me is a “twisty, emotionally complex, powder keg of a tale” (bestselling author Emily Carpenter) about the wounds of people who’ve grown apart. Best friends, separated by miles. Spouses, hardened by neglect. A mother, isolated by pain.

One moment will change things for them all.

"[A] great hybrid of women's fiction and suspense...strong character development and unpredictable plot." - Library Journal

Ratings and reviews

I'm going to prepare a gourmet dinner for you, all the trimmings. By the time I finish describing it, you can almost taste it. Except, when you get here, I'm going to give you a hotdog and chips on a paper plate - and not even a good hotdog, just a plain, cheap wiener on a bun. Disappointed? Yeah, that's how I feel about this book. I read the blurb, which sounds like a thriller or at least a good mystery. This is neither. Oh, it starts out that way. Once the masked man enters the picture, I was sitting up and taking notice. Then, it turns into something else, and the masked man becomes something on the periphery, barely even mentioned. So, even though Amazon has it listed as ranking pretty high in the domestic thriller genre, this is not a thriller. Not even close. Domestic drama, definitely. There's more drama than you can shake a stick at, but there are no thrills here after that one scene with masked man. Once things veered away from the mystery man, I became confused. Am I reading the right book? I went back and re-read the blurb. Yep, that's what I thought it said. So, where is this book that I can't put down? Let me add here that I have no problem with dramas. In fact, I quite like them if the story holds my interest. This one did not. It's a story that drags on about a handful of unlikable people who have made a mess of their lives and don't know how to fix it. I ended up skimming over half of this one, and while I did get some answers about the masked man, even that was less than satisfying. Maybe this book or this author's style just isn't for me, or maybe it's because I expected one thing and found another. Whatever the reason, this one fell short and left me disappointed.

Complete waste of money and time, there really is no point to this book, save your money don't buy , worst book I've ever read and yes I've read alot of books.

About the author

JESSICA STRAWSER is the author of the book club favorites Almost Missed You, Not That I Could Tell (a Book of the Month selection), Forget You Know Me, and A Million Reasons Why. She is Editor-at-Large for Writer’s Digest, and her work has appeared in The New York Times' Modern Love, Publishers Weekly, and other fine venues. She lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati.