Release date: February 26, 2019 (Crown Publishing)
In paperback: January 7, 2020 (Ballantine Books)
Now available from your favorite indie bookstore as well as the following booksellers:
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Glamour “Best Books of 2019”
Real Simple “Best Books of 2019”
Marie Claire “Best Books of 2019”
Amazon “Best Books of the Month”
People Magazine “Best Books of the Week”
Library Journal “2019 Best Debut Novels”
Booklist “Year’s Best Crime Novels”
CrimeReads “The Best Books of 2019: Debut Fiction”
Buzzfeed “Best Thrillers of 2019”
Library Journal “Essential Titles of 2019: Mystery & Thriller”
New York Post “Best Books of the Week”
Refinery29 “Best Books of the Month”
Popsugar “Best New Books”
She Reads “Best Thrillers by Women of 2019”
Writer’s Bone “Best Books of 2019”
HelloGiggles “Best New Books”
What really happened the night Edie died? Ten years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn how unprepared she is for the truth.
In 2009, Edie had New York’s social world in her thrall. Mercurial and beguiling, she was the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft and treating the city like their playground. When Edie’s body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the group and brought the era to an abrupt end.
A decade later, Lindsay has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has devoted best friends, a cozy apartment, and a thriving career as a magazine’s head fact-checker. But when a chance reunion leads Lindsay to discover an unsettling video from that hazy night, she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered—and, worse, if she herself was involved. As she rifles through those months in 2009—combing through case files, old technology, and her fractured memories—Lindsay is forced to confront the demons of her own violent history to bring the truth to light.
REVIEWS
“Debut author Bartz pens a captivating psychological suspense novel full of moving pieces and is expertly paced. The tension is unmatched as the pieces fall into place, but not without the protagonist second-guessing herself…This whip-smart and mysterious read is perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins.” – Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)
“A riveting debut with, yes, an echo of The Girl on the Train.”– Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
“Accomplished…Fans of psychological thrillers will want to see more from this talented newcomer.” – Publishers Weekly
“An intense, emotionally gripping novel pitting memory and reality against each other…will keep you awake long into the night.” – BookPage
“Bartz has written a novel that is as much a portrait of post-recession Brooklyn hipster ennui as it is a thriller…Readers nostalgic for Pabst Blue Ribbons and Molly-fueled ragers should enjoy the world Bartz creates here.” – Kirkus Reviews
“[An] impressive debut with a
“I Know What You Did Last Summer meets The Girl on the Train in Andrea Bartz’s addictive debut novel.” – Marie Claire
“If you couldn’t get enough of TBS’ Search Party or more recently Netflix’s Russian Doll, pick up a copy of The Lost Night …[a] haunting debut.” – Glamour
“Poised to be one of the most talked-about books of the winter.” – Bustle
“The Lost Night has some of the best plot twists you’ll read all year long.” – HelloGiggles
“If you liked The Girl On The Train, you’ll love The Lost Night.” – Betches
“We bet that when you reach the final page, you’ll cry, ‘That ending!’ Read this smart, engrossing novel now.” – RealSimple.com
“A twisty, tightly plotted thriller set among the hipsters of Brooklyn.” – Refinery29
“A compelling story that will leave you guessing until the final page.” – Parade
“Twisty and unpredictable, The Lost Night will keep you guessing — and might make you reexamine your own past.” – Buzzfeed
“A fun, page-turning read that reads like HBO’s Girls meets The Girl on the Train.” – MindBodyGreen
“Bartz crafts a narrative filled with suspense and psychological drama.” – Furthermore
“A strong, atmospheric debut steeped in the lush details of Brooklyn in the late aughts … Bartz weaves timelines together with style and offers up an insightful portrait of a time and place in recent New York history, a period that’s also a stand-in for heedless, fearless youth corrupted. Expect to read a great deal more from Bartz in the future.” – CrimeReads
“If you’re looking for a new thriller that will have your mind and heart racing, add The Lost Night to your list…Full of plot twists and reveals, The Lost Night will keep you guessing until the end.” – RachaelRayMag.com
“I’ve been completely obsessed with this book in 2019. It’s a page-turner if you’re looking for one of those. It’s most definitely thrilling and a little bit dark. Trust me, it’s a must-read.” – Her Campus
“Bartz has deftly placed a group of plaid-shirt-wearing characters in a whodunit set at the intersection of the media and art worlds…The Lost Night elicits the same gleeful pleasure as subculture-specific thrillers like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History with its classicists and Tara Isabella Burton’s Social Creature.” – Bedford + Bowery
“It’s a promising premise, and Bartz elevates it with language more lyrical than you’d typically find in a thriller. She also proves adept at capturing the idiosyncrasies of her characters…If you’re a fan of psychological thrillers with strong female protagonists, like Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects or Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, put The Lost Night on your must-read list.” – Milwaukee Magazine
“A sharply written story of murder and memory that catches the beat of everyday life.” – Shepherd Express
PRAISE FROM AUTHORS
“Tightly paced and skillfully plotted, The Lost Night is a remarkable debut. Andrea Bartz captured a distinct period of time in a young woman’s life that intrigued me, surprised me, and left me flush with nostalgia. I want more from this talented new voice.” – Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister
“Reading The Lost Night is like cracking open the dusty photo albums and diving into the Venn diagram of your identity. Andrea Bartz casts a nostalgic, misty haze over this story about a meticulous-minded woman playing detective with her own life. If you’ve ever woken up unsure of what happened the night before and then proceeded to do it again . . . oh my, this is your book.” – Caroline Kepnes, bestselling author of You and Providence
“If The Girl on the Train had been a Brooklyn party kid, she’d feel right at home in The Lost Night: a juicy thriller wrapped up in a vivid nostalgia trip.” – Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear
“Exciting, gripping, disquieting—The Lost Night is more than a thriller. It’s a magnificent examination of the dark corners of our souls. Andrea Bartz has written this season’s must-read novel.” – Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Butterfly Girl
“A compulsively readable journey into the dark corners of memory. Bartz has crafted a terrifying and delicious narrative in the vein of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins.” – Jo Piazza, bestselling author of The Knockoff and Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win
“I loved this very cool thriller that puts you bang in the middle of New York’s hippest crowd. The damaged narrator will keep you second-guessing all the way. I read it in two days!”– CJ Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place
“Wow, what a thriller! My favorite thing about THE LOST NIGHT was the pitch-perfect voice of Lindsay, the main narrator and character. It reminded me of Paula Hawkins’ Girl on the Train. That same intimacy, vulnerability, and yes, unreliability, which made it so fun to try to guess if we should trust her memory. I will most definitely be picking up this author’s next novel!” – Angie Kim, bestselling author of Miracle Creek
“An absolutely blistering thriller about violence and loneliness and memory. I read it in 48 hours.” – Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth (a National Book Awards finalist)
“This book is such an exciting and wild ride—truly a thriller in every sense of the word. The characters, all wonderful and flawed in various interesting ways, feel so achingly real, and the prose radiates with nostalgia. I read it in just two and a half days, and the last 60 pages or so were especially magnificent—I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.” – Megan Collins, author ofThe Winter Sister
“The Lost Night is a fun, smart mystery that kept me guessing until the end. Its protagonist Lindsay Bach, a sharp, creative, self-analytical millennial, is the sort of character we expect to find in literary novels where not much happens; encountering her here, in the context of a potential murder, is a pleasurable surprise.” – Adelle Waldman, bestselling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
“Not one to miss. It’s a tense and tightly plotted mystery about what happened to Edie, a party girl just out of college and living in a Brooklyn loft with her friends in 2009. It captures a feeling of youth and freedom and possibility that seems quintessentially New York, but also the dark side of that youth and freedom and possibility, which is also unique to the city. It kept me flipping pages so intensely that I actually missed my stop on the subway.” – Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words
“This suspenseful, twisty thriller is the perfect book if you’re in the midst of your invincible twenties, or if you’ve ever looked back on that ephemeral time in your life and thought, how in the world did I live to tell the tale?” – Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy
PRESS
Cartel Entertainment Options ‘The Lost Night’ Novel For TV, Mila Kunis To Produce – Deadline Hollywood
Mila Kunis Snaps Up TV Rights to Journalist Andrea Bartz’s New Thriller, The Lost Night – Parade
The 10 Must-Read Books of March, According to Amazon’s Editors – Business Insider
The Best Books of 2019 – Glamour
The Best Books of 2019 – RealSimple.com
The Best Books of 2019: Debut Fiction – CrimeReads
The Year’s Best Crime Novels: 2019 – Booklist
The Best Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List – Marie Claire
The Best Psychological Thrillers to Add to Your TBR in 2019 – Book Riot
10 Essential Reads Out This Month, as Picked by the Amazon Books Editors – Amazon
The Best Books of the Week – New York Post
Winter/Spring 2019’s Best Debut Novels – Library Journal
13 Thrillers We Couldn’t Stop Thinking About In 2019 – Buzzfeed
50+ New Thrillers That Should Be on Your Radar This Year – Popsugar
15 Thriller Books That Will Pretty Much Guarantee You Never Get Another Good Night’s Sleep – Cosmopolitan
16 New Books Worth Reading in 2019 – The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Best Books of 2019 – Writer’s Bone
Chilling Thrillers Coming Out This Winter – Read It Forward
The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019 – CrimeReads
Most Anticipated Books of the First Half of 2019 – LitReactor
The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 – HelloGiggles
19 New Audiobooks You Can’t Miss in 2019 – Paste Magazine
What They’re Reading – BookPage
Books We’re Looking Forward to in the First Half of 2019 – Read It Forward
Put These February Books on Your List – Refinery29
17 Books We’re Adding to Our Must-Read Lists in February – PopSugar
March Bookseller Picks – Publishers Marketplace
NYC Crime Stories – BookPage
These Thrillers Will Keep You Glued To The Page This Summer – Refinery29
19 Best Beach Reads, According to Our Editors – MarieClaire.com
6 Books High Performers Should Read This Month – Furthermore
The 5 Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down This February – MindBodyGreen
February 2019 Book Preview – Volume 1 Brooklyn
Andrea Bartz On Her Debut Novel “The Lost Night” – Brooklyn Digest
February’s Best Debut Thrillers and Crime Novels – CrimeReads
26 Brand New Thrillers That Will Give You Chills This Winter – Popsugar
Friendship Frays in New Novels – Parkersburg News & Sentinel
The best new books to read this week: The Lost Night, Vacuum in the Dark, and more – HelloGiggles
Author Andrea Bartz on the Brooklyn inspiration behind ‘The Lost Night’ – AM New York
Brilliant Book Covers: The Best Covers of February 2019 – Bookish
McKibbin Lofts become ‘Calhoun Lofts’ in new book by Stuff Hipsters Hate author – FREEwilliamsburg
A Day in the Life of a Published Author – Create & Cultivate
The 16 Best Book Covers of February – Literary Hub
Books We Love By People We Love: Andrea Bartz’s ‘The Lost Night‘ – Rachel Ray Every Day
The New Book To Read Next, Based On Your Favorite Jane Austen Novel – Bustle
After Stuff Hipsters Hate, a Murder Mystery Inspired By the McKibbin Lofts – Bedford + Bowery
New Books from Wisconsin Authors Coming this Spring – Milwaukee Magazine
24 Chilling Psychological Thrillers and Mysteries to Add To Your Reading List Now – RealSimple.com
‘I Love This YA Novel, Okay?’ & Other Must-Read Books from The HC Team – Her Campus
14 Crime Novels to Read this Month – CrimeReads
Patch Living: Your March Entertainment Guide – Patch
The Writer’s Life Q&A: Ripped From Real Life – Shelf Awareness
Novelist Recalls ‘The Lost Night’ at Boswell Books – Shepherd Express
The Best Books to Add to Your Must-Read List for April – Best Products
The Great Hipster Mystery: Defining a Canon – CrimeReads
Six Picks: Riveting Mysteries – Read It Forward
Partying While the World Burned: An Interview with Andrea Bartz – Los Angeles Review of Books
Author Q&A – The Big Thrill
Mandy Moore, Chrissy Teigen and Other Boss Ladies Set for Popsugar’s Play/Ground Festival – AM New York
20 Summer Books: ‘Sex and the City’ Revisit, ‘Queer Eye’ Memoir and More – The Hollywood Reporter
Post-Gone Girl, Here’s How These Authors Are Moving the Psychological Thriller Genre Forward – Popsugar
10 Best Suspense Books of 2019 (So Far) – Celadon
The 5 Best Summer Lounge Reads – Brooklinen
10 Thrillers Featuring a Dance of Girlfriends and Deception – CrimeReads
9 Books Set in New York City That We Can’t Put Down – Read It Forward
The Best Thrillers by Women of 2019 – She Reads
Self-Care Ideas, Courtesy of Our Editors – MarieClaire.com
Debut Diary: Get Your Book out There for (Mostly) Free – The Thrill Begins
10 Books That Remind Us of The Talented Mr. Ripley – Read It Forward
2019 Book Gifts for the Holidays: New and Old Releases Perfect for Every Reader in Your Life – Jetsetter.com
Hate Black Friday Shopping? Here Are 7 Other Ways to Spend Your Day – Milwaukee Magazine
The 18 Best Books to Gift, According to Best-Selling Female Authors – Glamour
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