Stay Awake: A Novel
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Megan Goldin. (2022). Stay Awake: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Megan Goldin. 2022. Stay Awake: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Megan Goldin, Stay Awake: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.

Megan Goldin. Stay Awake: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.

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   • bioText: MEGAN GOLDIN worked as a correspondent for Reuters and other media outlets where she covered war, peace, international terrorism and financial meltdowns in the Middle East and Asia. She is now based in Melbourne, Australia where she raises three sons and is a foster mum to Labrador puppies learning to be guide dogs. She is the author of The Escape Room, The Night Swim, Stay Awake, and Dark Corners.
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A murder she doesn't remember committing. A killer she doesn't remember meeting. Megan Goldin's Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she's dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers—a stranger who claims to live in her apartment. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it's missing. In its place is a bloodstained knife. Her hands are covered in scribbled messages, like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE.
Two years ago, Liv was thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. Now, she's lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers. Catching a glimpse of the local news, she's horrified to see reports of a crime scene where the victim's blood has been used to scrawl a message across a window, similar to the message that's inked on her hands. What did she do last night? And why does she remember nothing from the past two years? Liv finds herself on the run for a crime she doesn't remember committing. But there's someone who does know exactly what she did, and they'll do anything to make her forget—permanently.
A complex thriller that unfolds at a breakneck speed, Megan Goldin's Stay Awake will keep you up all night.

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     Praise for The Night Swim:
   • content: "Misdirection has always been a key tool in [Goldin's] toolbox, and she uses it to perfection in this beautifully conceived and executed thriller."
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   • source: Booklist (starred)
   • content: "Goldin's prose is inviting, at times electrifying, and always sensitive in dealing with hot-button issues...well done."
3. • premium: False
   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred)
   • content: "Outstanding...[Goldin's thriller] casts a searing light on small-town politics."
4. • premium: False
   • source: Time Magazine
   • content: "Addicting."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Harlan Coben
   • content: "High wire tension from the first moment to the last. Four ruthless people locked in a deadly game where victory means survival. Gripping and unforgettable!"
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   • source: Lee Child
   • content: "Fantastic. One of my favorite books of the year."
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   • source: Louise Penny
   • content: "Amazing...a thriller set in an elevator [that explores] the vast territory of people's worst natures. A nightmarish look inside ourselves. Simply riveting."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "There is clearly no happy ending likely for the four colleagues trapped inside [the escape room]; but fans of JP Delany and Ruth Ware will want to be right in there with them...a nail-biting tale of a corporate team-building exercise gone horribly wrong."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Riveting...[a] tale of greed and revenge set on Wall Street...Thriller fans will eagerly turn the pages to see what happens next."
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      March 1, 2022
      

      Goldin follows up her edgy and much-appreciated The Escape Room and The Night Swim with Liv Reese waking up in a taxi she doesn't remember catching; thrust from her brownstone apartment, now inhabited by a stranger; and finding a bloodstained knife in her pocket and the words "STAY AWAKE" scrawled on her skin--the same message scrawled in the victim's blood at a crime scene. Even more confoundingly, she learns that two years have gone by, completely lost to her memory. With a 150,000-copy first printing.

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      June 6, 2022
      This adrenaline-fueled thriller from Goldin (The Night Swim) opens with Liv Reese waking up early one morning in a Brooklyn-bound cab, though the last thing she remembers is working her Manhattan day job. Her skin sports myriad handwritten messages, including DON’T SLEEP! I FORGET EVERYTHING WHEN I FALL ASLEEP; she has cash, but no keys, phone, or wallet; and when she buzzes the apartment she shares with her roommate, strangers answer. Her pocket contains a bloody knife, which she tosses. Hours later, Liv wakes on a park bench, though the last thing she remembers is being at work. Back at the office, the staff and decor have changed completely. When a man calls asking where she put the knife, Liv assumes it’s a wrong number—until the news reports a murder where the killer wrote WAKE UP! on a window in blood, and she panics. Goldin skillfully interweaves Liv’s tense, propulsive present-day narration with chapters following NYPD detective Darcy Halliday’s homicide investigation and flashbacks to two years earlier. Shocking twists and resourceful, well-drawn female characters keep the pages turning as the clever mystery unfolds. Goldin reliably entertains. Agent: David Gernert, Gernert Co.

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      Starred review from June 1, 2022
      Liv Reese wakes up in a cab. She's disoriented. How did she get there? The cabbie drops her off at her apartment, which is inexplicably occupied by strangers. As though this weren't perplexing enough, Liv has things written on her hands (including the words "stay awake"), and she doesn't know why. Nor why she has a bloody knife wrapped up in a T-shirt. Elsewhere, a homicide detective arrives at the scene of a murder to find a man who was apparently drugged before he was stabbed to death. On his apartment window, the words "stay awake" are written in blood. The latest novel from the author of The Night Swim (2020) is a very interesting variation on the lost-memory theme. Goldin keeps piling on the questions (Why is someone else living in Liv's apartment? How has her workplace changed so much? Why have her bank accounts been closed?) until we're just as confused as Liv. Oh, and that murder victim: Was it Liv who killed him? Or are the words on the window a warning to her? Eventually Goldin answers these questions and many more, but only when she's ready, and good luck trying to figure out the answers before that. Misdirection has always been a key tool in her toolbox, and she uses it to perfection in this beautifully conceived and executed thriller.

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A murder she doesn't remember committing. A killer she doesn't remember meeting. Megan Goldin's Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she's dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers—a stranger who claims to live in her apartment. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it's missing. In its place is a bloodstained knife. Her hands are covered in scribbled messages, like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE.
Two years ago, Liv was thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. Now, she's lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers. Catching a glimpse of the local news, she's horrified to see reports of a crime scene where the victim's blood has been used to scrawl a message across a window, similar to the message that's inked on her...

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