We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

When the Lights Go Out: A Thrilling Suspense Novel from the author of Local Woman Missing
(Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published:
Park Row Books 2018
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
"A twisty, captivating, edge-of-your-seat read." —Megan Miranda, bestselling author of All the Missing Girls
"Creepy and oh so clever!" —Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie
A woman is forced to question her own identity in this riveting and emotionally charged thriller by the blockbuster bestselling author of The Good Girl, Mary Kubica

Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment and applies for college. But when the college informs her that her social security number has raised a red flag, Jessie discovers a shocking detail that causes her to doubt everything she's ever known.
Finding herself suddenly at the center of a bizarre mystery, Jessie tumbles down a rabbit hole, which is only exacerbated by grief and a relentless lack of sleep. As days pass and the insomnia worsens, it plays with Jessie's mind. Her judgment is blurred, her thoughts are hampered by fatigue. Jessie begins to see things until she can no longer tell the difference between what's real and what she's only imagined.
Meanwhile, twenty years earlier and two hundred and fifty miles away, another woman's split-second decision may hold the key to Jessie's secret past. Has Jessie's whole life been a lie or have her delusions gotten the best of her?
Don't miss Mary Kubica's chilling upcoming novel, She's Not Sorry, where an ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past...
Look for these other edge-of-your-seat thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
  • The Good Girl
  • Pretty Baby
  • Don't You Cry
  • Every Last Lie
  • The Other Mrs.
  • Local Woman Missing
  • Just The Nicest Couple
  • She's Not Sorry

  • Also in This Series
    Formats
    Adobe EPUB eBook
    Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
    OverDrive Read
    Need Help?
    If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
    More Like This
    More Copies In LINK+
    Loading LINK+ Copies...
    More Details
    Format:
    Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read
    Street Date:
    09/04/2018
    Language:
    English
    ISBN:
    9781488023576
    Reviews from GoodReads
    Loading GoodReads Reviews.
    Citations
    APA Citation (style guide)

    Mary Kubica. (2018). When the Lights Go Out: A Thrilling Suspense Novel from the author of Local Woman Missing. Park Row Books.

    Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

    Mary Kubica. 2018. When the Lights Go Out: A Thrilling Suspense Novel From the Author of Local Woman Missing. Park Row Books.

    Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

    Mary Kubica, When the Lights Go Out: A Thrilling Suspense Novel From the Author of Local Woman Missing. Park Row Books, 2018.

    MLA Citation (style guide)

    Mary Kubica. When the Lights Go Out: A Thrilling Suspense Novel From the Author of Local Woman Missing. Park Row Books, 2018.

    Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
    Copy Details
    LibraryOwnedAvailable
    Shared Digital Collection21

    There are 3 holds on this title.

    Staff View
    Grouped Work ID:
    54fb50f9-9fa4-42cd-76cb-61565e4ef351
    Go To Grouped Work
    Needs Update?:
    No
    Date Added:
    Aug 30, 2018 16:34:30
    Date Updated:
    Jun 15, 2023 11:18:05
    Last Metadata Check:
    Apr 21, 2024 12:23:54
    Last Metadata Change:
    Apr 21, 2024 12:23:54
    Last Availability Check:
    Apr 21, 2024 12:23:57
    Last Availability Change:
    Apr 16, 2024 20:13:19
    Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
    Apr 23, 2024 02:10:41

    OverDrive Product Record

    images
      • cover:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG100.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
      • thumbnail:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG200.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
      • cover150Wide:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG150.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
      • cover300Wide:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG400.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
    formats
        • identifiers:
              • type: ISBN
              • value: 9781488023576
        • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
        • id: ebook-epub-adobe
        • identifiers:
              • type: ISBN
              • value: 9781488023576
        • name: OverDrive Read
        • id: ebook-overdrive
    otherFormatIdentifiers
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780778330783
    mediaType
    eBook
    primaryCreator
      • role: Author
      • name: Mary Kubica
    isOwnedByCollections
    True
    title
    When the Lights Go Out
    dateAdded
    2020-03-20T18:34:23.933Z
    contentDetails
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=569&titleID=3610129
        • type: text/html
        • account:
            • name: NorthNet Library System (CA)
            • id: 2323
    sortTitle
    When the Lights Go Out A Thrilling Suspense Novel from the author of Local Woman Missing
    crossRefId
    3610129
    subtitle
    A Thrilling Suspense Novel from the author of Local Woman Missing
    id
    50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485
    starRating
    3.2

    OverDrive MetaData

    isPublicDomain
    False
    formats
        • fileName: WhentheLightsGoOut_9781488023576_3610129
        • partCount: 0
        • fileSize: 553292
        • identifiers:
              • type: ISBN
              • value: 9781488023576
        • rights:
              • type: Copying
              • value: 0
              • type: Printing
              • value: 0
              • type: Lending
              • value: 0
              • type: ReadAloud
              • value: 0
              • type: ExpirationRights
              • value: 0
        • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
        • isReadAlong: False
        • id: ebook-epub-adobe
        • onSaleDate: 9/4/2018
        • samples:
              • source: From the book
              • formatType: ebook-overdrive
              • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=50230376-e825-4e2a-bf9f-e48031745485&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
        • fileName: WhentheLightsGoOut_9781488023576_3610129
        • partCount: 0
        • fileSize: 1288267
        • identifiers:
              • type: ISBN
              • value: 9781488023576
        • name: OverDrive Read
        • isReadAlong: False
        • id: ebook-overdrive
        • onSaleDate: 9/4/2018
        • samples:
              • source: From the book
              • formatType: ebook-overdrive
              • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=50230376-e825-4e2a-bf9f-e48031745485&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
    keywords
        • value: identity theft
        • value: secrets
        • value: Ebooks
        • value: Personal Growth
        • value: obsession
        • value: new york times bestseller
        • value: books on cd
        • value: deception
        • value: Psychological Suspense
        • value: parenting
        • value: book club
        • value: women's
        • value: suspense thriller
        • value: audiobooks
        • value: mom
        • value: twist ending
        • value: Twist
        • value: Her
        • value: Fiction
        • value: crime
        • value: single mother
        • value: novels
        • value: detective
        • value: Thrillers
        • value: nightmares
        • value: audiobook
        • value: Death
        • value: audio books
        • value: secret identity
        • value: suspense
        • value: cd
        • value: personal journey
        • value: women
        • value: adult fiction
        • value: psychological thriller
        • value: audio
        • value: mystery
        • value: Drama
        • value: murder
        • value: mystery thriller
        • value: insomnia
        • value: mysteries
        • value: Psychological
        • value: novel
        • value: Gift Books
        • value: Sale
        • value: Thriller
        • value: betrayal
        • value: gift
        • value: Contemporary
        • value: police
        • value: Release
        • value: Libby
        • value: psychological thrillers
        • value: loss
        • value: fiction books
        • value: club
        • value: summer
        • value: seller
        • value: woman
        • value: domestic thriller
        • value: memory loss
        • value: mother daughter
        • value: Stand alone
        • value: detective novels
        • value: gillian flynn
        • value: thriller books
        • value: thriller suspense
        • value: mysteries and thrillers
        • value: crime books
        • value: mystery books
        • value: favorites
        • value: plot twist
        • value: domestic suspense
        • value: mystery suspense
        • value: edelweiss
        • value: false memory
        • value: gift for women
        • value: mystery thrillers
        • value: Murder mystery books
        • value: standalone
        • value: 2021
        • value: mystery novels
        • value: mystery thriller suspense
        • value: audible
        • value: books mystery
        • value: christmas gifts
        • value: books for mom
        • value: 2018
        • value: Books on sale
        • value: psychological thriller books
        • value: suspense books
        • value: book club pick
        • value: 2020
        • value: 2019
        • value: gifts for mom
        • value: gifts for women
        • value: suspense thriller books
        • value: thriller mystery
        • value: gifts for her
        • value: 2022
        • value: 2023
        • value: edge of your seat
        • value: Mary Kubica
        • value: The Good Girl
        • value: beach books for women
        • value: pretty baby
        • value: 2018 books
        • value: women gifts
        • value: audible books
        • value: books fiction
        • value: kindle books on sale
        • value: audible books best sellers
        • value: 2019 books
        • value: listened
        • value: for mom
        • value: kindle summer reads
        • value: A.J. Finn
        • value: bookshelf
        • value: didn t finish
        • value: my bookshelf
        • value: 2024
        • value: kindle deals
        • value: 2022 books
        • value: 2023 books
        • value: books i have
        • value: kindle deals for today
        • value: 2021 books
        • value: unowned
        • value: daily deals kindle ebooks
        • value: christmas gifts for parents from adult children
        • value: kubica mary
        • value: college girl christmas gifts 2021
        • value: books on cd for adults mystery
    creators
        • role: Author
        • fileAs: Kubica, Mary
        • bioText: Mary Kubica is a New York Times bestselling author of thrillers including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Her novels have been praised as "hypnotic" (People) and "thrilling and illuminating" (L.A. Times). She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and children.
        • name: Mary Kubica
    imprint
    Park Row
    publishDate
    2018-09-04T00:00:00-04:00
    isOwnedByCollections
    True
    title
    When the Lights Go Out
    fullDescription
    "A twisty, captivating, edge-of-your-seat read." —Megan Miranda, bestselling author of All the Missing Girls
    "Creepy and oh so clever!" —Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie
    A woman is forced to question her own identity in this riveting and emotionally charged thriller by the blockbuster bestselling author of The Good Girl, Mary Kubica

    Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment and applies for college. But when the college informs her that her social security number has raised a red flag, Jessie discovers a shocking detail that causes her to doubt everything she's ever known.
    Finding herself suddenly at the center of a bizarre mystery, Jessie tumbles down a rabbit hole, which is only exacerbated by grief and a relentless lack of sleep. As days pass and the insomnia worsens, it plays with Jessie's mind. Her judgment is blurred, her thoughts are hampered by fatigue. Jessie begins to see things until she can no longer tell the difference between what's real and what she's only imagined.
    Meanwhile, twenty years earlier and two hundred and fifty miles away, another woman's split-second decision may hold the key to Jessie's secret past. Has Jessie's whole life been a lie or have her delusions gotten the best of her?
    Don't miss Mary Kubica's chilling upcoming novel, She's Not Sorry, where an ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past...
    Look for these other edge-of-your-seat thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
  • The Good Girl
  • Pretty Baby
  • Don't You Cry
  • Every Last Lie
  • The Other Mrs.
  • Local Woman Missing
  • Just The Nicest Couple
  • She's Not Sorry

  • reviews
        • premium: True
        • source: Kirkus
        • content:

          July 1, 2018
          When Jessie Sloane's mother, Eden, dies of cancer, Jessie is left rudderless. Then she discovers she might not be the person she thought she was.Jessie never knew her father, and she can't bear to live in the house that she shared with Eden, so she puts it on the market. When she applies to community college, she gets a call with the alarming news that a death certificate was filed 17 years ago with her name and social security number on it. She'll need to get a copy of her social security card, but without a birth certificate or driver's license--she doesn't drive--it's nearly impossible, and when a clerk takes pity on her and does a search, no records are found. It's a vicious circle, and it hampers her ability to find an apartment, although she does eventually find a place in a small carriage house she rents from reclusive widow Ms. Geissler. Unfortunately, in addition to the question of her identity, she's got a more pressing problem: Jessie has insomnia, and as the days pass and she doesn't sleep, she begins to hear and see things, eventually wondering how long she can go without sleep before it kills her. Woven with Jessie's first-person narrative is Eden's tale, beginning 20 years ago in 1996 when she's only 28. She and her husband, Aaron, are crazy in love and desperately hope for a child, but as time passes and they don't conceive, they begin trying more aggressive, and more expensive, methods. Eden's obsession builds to a fever pitch, threatening to tear her and Aaron apart. Jessie's story, an effective study of grief, nightmarishly builds to its own fever pitch, and Kubica peppers her narrative with creepy, surreal touches that will have readers questioning reality right along with Jessie. Eden's story, on the other hand, poignantly examines what it's like to want a child so badly that you'll do anything to have one. Can Jessie find out who she really is before it's too late? It all leads to a denouement that isn't very surprising, but a lesser writer might not have been able to pull off the final twist.Kubica is a helluva storyteller, and while this doesn't quite equal her best efforts, it's still pretty darn good.

          COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

        • premium: True
        • source: Publisher's Weekly
        • content:

          July 23, 2018
          Jessie Sloane, the chief narrator of this lackluster psychological thriller from bestseller Kubica (Every Last Lie), spends her teen years caring for her mother, Eden, until Eden dies from cancer at their home in Chicago. Numb with grief, insomniac Jessie tries to get on with her life by applying to a community college, but a college official informs her that her Social Security number belongs to a girl who died 17 years earlier. Jessie never knew who her father was, nor does she have a birth certificate or a driver’s license, so trying to find her identity seems insurmountable. As Jessie’s insomnia worsens, she makes one bad decision after another. Flashbacks from Eden’s viewpoint show that she and her husband, Aaron, were loving newlyweds, but their marriage soured when Eden became consumed with having a baby. Jessie’s inability to tell reality from illusion quickly becomes tiresome, as does Eden and Aaron’s story. Eden’s account plods to a disappointing finale. Kubica fans will hope for a return to form next time. Agent: Rachael Dillon Fried, Greenburger Assoc.

        • premium: True
        • source: Library Journal
        • content:

          April 15, 2018

          Remaking her life after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica uncovers a secret that undermines her sense of self even as she navigates a world made hazy by sleeplessness. Meanwhile, the heartbreak of Eden's unmet wish to have a child brings on marital stress, emotional collapse, and, finally, some dangerous behavior. Top-drawer suspense author Kubica (The Good Girl; Every Last Lie) connects the dots; a 250,000-copy first printing.

          Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    popularity
    4963
    links
      • self:
          • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/50230376-e825-4e2a-bf9f-e48031745485/metadata
          • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    id
    50230376-e825-4e2a-bf9f-e48031745485
    starRating
    3.2
    images
      • cover:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG100.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
      • thumbnail:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG200.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
      • cover150Wide:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG150.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
      • cover300Wide:
          • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1071-1/{50230376-E825-4E2A-BF9F-E48031745485}IMG400.JPG
          • type: image/jpeg
    isPublicPerformanceAllowed
    False
    languages
        • code: en
        • name: English
    subjects
        • value: Fiction
        • value: Mystery
        • value: Suspense
        • value: Thriller
    publishDateText
    09/04/2018
    otherFormatIdentifiers
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780778330783
    mediaType
    eBook
    shortDescription
    "A twisty, captivating, edge-of-your-seat read." —Megan Miranda, bestselling author of All the Missing Girls
    "Creepy and oh so clever!" —Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie
    A woman is forced to question her own identity in this riveting and emotionally charged thriller by the blockbuster bestselling author of The Good Girl, Mary Kubica

    Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment and applies for college. But when the college informs her that her social security number has raised a red flag, Jessie discovers a shocking detail that causes her to doubt everything she's ever known.
    Finding herself suddenly at the center of a bizarre mystery, Jessie tumbles down a rabbit hole, which is only exacerbated by grief and a relentless lack of sleep. As days pass and the insomnia worsens, it plays with Jessie's mind. Her judgment is blurred, her...
    sortTitle
    When the Lights Go Out A Thrilling Suspense Novel from the author of Local Woman Missing
    crossRefId
    3610129
    subtitle
    A Thrilling Suspense Novel from the author of Local Woman Missing
    publisher
    Park Row Books
    bisacCodes
        • code: FIC022000
        • description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
        • code: FIC030000
        • description: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
        • code: FIC031080
        • description: Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological