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We Were Never Here: Reese's Book Club

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By Andrea Bartz
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We Were Never Here is a gripping psychological thriller about Emily and her best friend Kristen, whose annual backpacking trips take a dark turn. After discovering a scene of blood and broken glass in their Chilean hotel room, Emily confronts a horrifying truth: a backpacker has been killed again under eerily similar circumstances to the previous year. As Emily returns home to Wisconsin, she wrestles with trauma and a new relationship, but Kristen's unexpected visit brings buried secrets to the surface. Tension mounts as Emily questions Kristen’s motives and the deadly consequences of their shared past.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • "This book is every suspense lover's dream and it kept me up way too late turning pages... A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday night plans for more chapters."—Reese Witherspoon

A backpacking trip has deadly consequences in this eerie psychological thriller... with alluring locales, Hitchcockian tension, and possibly the best pair of female leads since Thelma and Louise (BookPage), from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd.

A Marie Claire Book Club Pick • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR and Marie Claire

Emily is having the time of her life—she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she brought back to their room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly similar to last year's trip, when another backpacker wound up dead. Emily can't believe it's happened again—can lightning really strike twice?

Back home in Wisconsin, Emily struggles to bury her trauma, diving headfirst into a new relationship and throwing herself into work. But when Kristen shows up for a surprise visit, Emily is forced to confront their violent past. The more Kristen tries to keep Emily close, the more Emily questions her motives. As Emily feels the walls closing in on their cover-ups, she must reckon with the truth about her closest friend. Can Emily outrun the secrets she shares with Kristen, or will they destroy her relationship, her freedom—even her life?

Book Details

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ISBN: 9781984820488

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 255g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Andrea Bartz is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Lost Night, The Herd, and The Last Ferry Out. Her thrillers have been optioned by Netflix, Hulu, and other production companies, and more than half a million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, and many other outlets, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self, among other publications. She was also a lead plaintiff in the landmark class-action lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic, which was the first major win for creatives against an AI company as well as the largest copyright recovery in history. She lives with her girlfriend and pets in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.

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