Forget Me Not

A Novel

De: Stacy Willingham

Narrado por: Helen Laser, Karissa Vacker

A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark.

Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an investigative journalist... until an unexpected call from her father forces her to come back home and face it all anew.

With the entire summer now looming ahead—a summer spent with nothing to do in her childhood home, with her estranged mother—Claire decides on a whim to accept a seasonal job at Galloway Farm, a muscadine vineyard in coastal South Carolina less than an hour away from where she grew up. At first glance, Galloway is an idyllic escape for Claire. A scenic retreat full of slow-paced nostalgia, as well as a place where her sister seemed truly happy in that last summer before she vanished, it feels like the perfect plan to pass the time. However, as soon as Claire starts to settle in, she stumbles across an old diary written by one of the vineyard's owners, and what at first seems like a story of young rebellion and love turns into something much more sinister as it begins to describe details of various unsolved crimes. As the days stretch on, Claire finds herself becoming more and more secluded as she starts to obsess over the diary's contents… as well as the lingering feeling that her own sister's disappearance may be somehow tied to it all.

Galloway was supposed to be a place to help her move forward, but instead, Claire quickly finds herself immersed in her own dark and dangerous past.

"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job.... Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator."—Booklist on All the Dangerous Things

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

©2025 Stacy Willingham (P)2025 Macmillan Audio

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“Absolutely riveting. Simmering tension and genuine shocks make Forget Me Not a thriller I’ll remember for a long, long time.”—Riley Sager

“Stacy Willingham beguiles with her magnetic writing and atmospheric setting, drawing readers easily into a decades-old mystery where a constant sense of danger and unease brews beneath the surface. Shocking and totally twisted. Totally unique, I've never read anything like it.”—Mary Kubica

“Stacy Willingham does not miss! I was immediately drawn into this eerie and captivating story, and could not put it down. A perfect thriller for summer reading.”–Samantha Downing

Similar story

Was good overall but I feel like I’ve read the same book before. This one had more twists but I zoned out a bit because of the deja vu!

not that twisty and a bit slow sometimes

Not that twisty and a bit slow sometimes. Ending was bittersweet and satisfying. Narrator was great.

She’s done it again!!

A master of mystery and intrigue, with heart and soul. As usual, Stacy Willingham kept me guessing until the end - I loved the twists and the element of danger and the eerie connections to the past!

Suspense putting you on the edge of you seat!

It was one you couldn't put down eager to listen to what came next.

The right amount of complication

This was a really good story. I usually work out the details far quicker than most and I wish some stories would keep me guessing. This one added tension right when I needed it. She layered the mystery just perfectly. I would think I was figuring things out and then a new wrinkle would be introduced. Well done. I enjoyed this book and only wish it was longer.

Will keep you guessing until the end!

There’s nothing better than finding out what you’re supposed to when the author plans for it! It’s one of my favorite feelings. The twists keep coming in this one!

Great!

This book kept my interest the whole time! I could not put it down! Great book!

Nonstop intrigue

4.5 STARS

I’m so glad I discovered Stacy Willingham. Each of her books entertained and intrigued.

Journalist Claire hasn’t resolved her feelings that something doesn’t sit right with her sister’s disappearance and murder years ago. Though a man sits in jail, Claire still has questions. When the opportunity to work the summer in the winery where her sister Natalie worked before her death, she jumps on the opportunity to learn more about what happened. Claire finds the old diary of one of the winery’s owners and she begins to worry about her own safety.

The twists and turns don’t stop until the last page of FORGET ME NOT.

Suspenseful, original story line

The narrator was good. I am an avid reader and find that, many times, books in a genre are pretty predictable. This one was not. It did keep me a little stressed as the heroin takes some chances that make you sure she is goi g to be one of those characters in the book who is too stupid to live. I will say no more than this is a good one to read.

A long and winding road

The story was good I theory but the writing was the main focus. Flowery and overly descriptive with not enough plot development. The end was good.