I'd call this a mystery with a heavy dose of romance rather than a thriller but that's not to knock it. It's an unusual book to place that's all. Having said that, the drama of a holiday romance, a memory of the past and a relationship of the present all play their part here in a very interesting mix.

Set in Thailand and Sydney, most of the novel centres on the relationship that develops in Thailand. It's lovely to read about and enjoy the time there visiting the places with the characters. I certainly want and need to eat some thai now. Flash forward to Sydney and there's a trial going on concerning the events of Thailand. Plus there's a new relationship involving one of those in Thailand originally. This is all set up nicely to explore what is to come. Slow to start but a very effective build up. Tension throughout.l

After reading, I still don't know where you would find this in a bookstore. You know what? Doesn't matter. It's an interesting mix and it's true that you never really know anyone at all.

Couldn’t put this down, read it in just over a day and I absolutely loved it. Impossible to guess the ending and I am dying to know what happened with Alice and Noah!

The contents of this book didn’t really match the cover, being much more of a romantic suspense/drama than the thriller I was expecting. It started off well and I was intrigued but I found myself skipping pages as it became a little too melodramatic for my personal tastes.

Noah is on holiday in Thailand when he sees a woman who reminds him of someone he used to know, Lizzie. He’s due back shortly to Australia to attend the inquest into her disappearance.

Alice is in Thailand as a teacher of English and has her own secrets.

The two fall madly in love and when she has news of her father’s accident, she follows him back to Australia.

What follows is a drawn out story of what happened to Lizzie and what Alice’s secret is.

This book was ok. The love story on Thailand was well developed and I really enjoyed reading about the inquest, but it never really flowed that well and didn’t keep me interested that much. I skip read quite a lot of it unfortunately.

I didn’t guess the outcome of either secret - Alice’s I though was going to be something completely different and it left me somewhat deflated.

It was well written and the characters of Noah and Alice were well developed but something about this just didn’t grab my attention much.

I would read another of Sara Foster’s books to give her another go.

I really liked this book!
I liked the love/hate dodgy characters, I loved the dramatics and I loved the secrets that were being kept.
I felt this book gave off a great suspense, it was a quick, easy read. Would recommend.

Even though this book is a thriller I did also enjoy the romantic side of things between Noah and Alice. Parts of this book we're a little slow but I think it was needed in order to build the tension and give you all the feels of a thriller. Oh boy, that big ol' twist made my jaw DROP TO THE FLOOR pretty darn hard. I took me a while to pick my jaw up again.

This is a 4/5 for me a it is an enjoyable thriller to read.

Complex mystery with lots of twists. A girlfriends disappearance continues to cause problems for a family and surrounding area. Can the mystery be solved this time.

You Don't Know Me follows the disappearance of 18-year-old Lizzie Burdett, and the impact it continues to have on her then boyfriend Tom and his brother Noah, who has fallen in love with Lizzie's lookalike Alice Pryce.

This was a fun suspense book to read, with lots of vivid travel imagery, lots of romance, and a good dose of twists and turns.

I specially enjoyed that Alice had her own story line and wasn't just a plot device to justify Noah's obsession with Lizzie.

Overall another fantastic read by Sara Foster. If you haven't read any of her books, start with this one for sure!

Disclosure: I would like to thank the publisher for my free advanced reader copy. This is my honest review.

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You Don't Know Me is a dark and thrilling read, full of suspense, and absolutely impossible to put down once you start it. As you feel compelled to keep reading to find out all the secrets that are hidden,

Thank you to NetGalley and Legend Press for the arc of You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster.

Thank you to Sara Foster for writing this captivating book.

This follows 18 year old Lizzie in which disappeared, Noah has never ever forgotten her, she was his first love and crush. She was also Noah's brothers girlfriend.... 😱😱😱😱

Tom, Noah's brother hasn’t been back to their home in over 10 years he left after Lizzie disappeared,, and now he’s come back for the inquest into the death of Lizzie, he is also determined on telling his side.

As the inquest comes up , Noah meets a woman named Alice Pryce on holiday, They fall in love with each other pretty quick. but Noah can’t bear to tell Alice his deepest fears. And Alice is equally stricken – she carries a terrible secret of her own.

Is the truth worth telling or not if it will destroy everything?....

recommend to all
5 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A good story set in Thailand for the most part. This book was well written and suspenseful and had a little romance thrown in too. I really enjoyed it and would definitely read more from this author.

Alice and Noah both have secrets.

There’s a really interesting structure to You Don't Know Me that makes for an entertaining plot. Although there was a little too much about the relationship between Alice and Noah in the early part if the book for my taste, I thoroughly appreciated the way it reflected their need to escape their pasts, and avoid their futures, through a more hedonistic present. It makes the reader fully aware that there is much more to be revealed about both these young people. The use of podcasts to unfold the narrative is a clever device as it unlocks detail for the reader, as well as for the characters, whilst maintaining the suspense. The more I read, the more drawn in I became and I found You Don't Know Me entertaining.

I thought the attention to detail in the settings was very vivid and found myself transported back to Thailand through Sara Foster's meticulous appeal to the senses. Food in particular felt realistic and I liked the way it ‘fed’ Alice and Noah’s early relationship in both a literal and metaphorical way. The way the heat of Bangkok mirrors the heat of passion between Alice and Noah emphasises the depth of their feeling. I found the Thai setting very authentic.

The most appealing aspect of Don't Know Me for me was the exploration of theme. Lizzie’s disappearance illustrates how someone can shape and influence us long after the event and the concept of shame, secrecy and guilt adds depth to the narrative. Don't Know Me is an intriguing consideration of how we never really know others fully. 

I thought Don't Know Me was an unusual book. It doesn’t fall readily into a particular genre for me as there is romance, intrigue, crime, mystery and a psychological aspect so that it can be read on many levels. I think it’s all the better for being difficult to pigeonhole!

You Don’t Know Me is the sixth novel by British-born Australian author, Sara Foster. When Noah Carruso first sees Alice Pryce on the deck of a river taxi in Thailand, he feels like he’s seen a ghost. Her long red hair reminds him so much of Lizzie Burdett, but Lizzie has been missing twelve years. At fifteen, Noah had an enormous crush on his brother, Tom’s girlfriend, but the last time he saw Lizzie she was distraught and walking away. There has been no sign of her, dead or alive, since then.

Fascinated, Noah follows Alice. It turns out that she is teaching English in Thailand, although that’s not the real reason she’s there, but sharing that secret with this attractive Aussie from Sydney’s Northern Beaches is not going to happen. Nonetheless, there is a mutual attraction, to which they soon can’t help but succumb. It rather too quickly starts to feel like the real thing: love.

Noah wants to stay longer, but his parents are hassling him to return to his job managing the family restaurant: the strain on his injured father is telling. And he has to be home for the upcoming inquest into Lizzie’s disappearance. Facing his brother, after Tom’s absence of eleven years, is something he dreads. Avoiding journalist Rachel Lawrence, the tenacious author of the current podcast about Lizzie, is also a priority.

Noah is missing Alice, but she has problems of her own, a situation that forces her back to Australia when it’s the last thing she wants to do. She can’t imagine how Noah would react to the secrets and trauma and guilt and shame she holds. But Noah hasn’t been entirely honest with Alice either.

A twin narrative (Noah and Alice alternating chapters) tells the story with the podcast transcript used as a (quite topical) device for providing background information about Lizzie’s disappearance. Foster deftly demonstrates the mixed power of the media: the podcast alerts potential witnesses to offer up possible evidence, but also incites mischief and malice from certain members of the public.

Foster’s sixth novel is very cleverly plotted: there are numerous red herrings and several parties try to shift suspicion away from themselves by implicating others. The agent of Lizzie’s ultimate fate is unlikely to be on the radar of even the most astute reader. This would be a five-star read but for one essential detail about the likely actions of a seventeen-year-old girl that stretches the reader’s credibility a bit too far. Still an excellent piece of Australian crime fiction.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Legend Press

You Don’t Know Me has a lot of romance for a thriller! I have no interest in romantic books so this didn’t do much for me.

That doesn’t mean you won’t love it though!

Middle rated to be fair - this wasn’t my perfect book but doesn’t mean it can’t be yours.

Thank you for opportunity to read

Many thanks to the author / Blackstone Publishing / Legend Press /Netgalley for the digital copy of this riveting mystery. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Noah Carruso is on a well deserved vacation. When he sees Alice Pryce, his first thought is that she looks eerily like Lizzie Burdette. Lizzie was 18 when she disappeared, after a huge argument with Tom Carruso, Noah's brother and Lizzie's boyfriend. She's never been found.

Tom couldn't take all the accusations and left to not return in a decade. There is now an inquest into Lizzie's disappearance and Tom is back to face the accusations once again.

Noah and Alice fall for each other hard ... but they both have secrets.

Is the truth worth telling if it will destroy everything?

This is a well written psychological thriller with a well paced plot. It starts as a love story but develops into so much more. I liked the interaction between Alice and Noah. The family dynamics were different for both, but it was the family that made them who they were. There were some twists along the way ... and the conclusion was surprising and unexpected.

** spoiler alert ** Heavier on the romance side of things than I was expecting.
Two people,each with baggage that comes to light during the course of their relationship.
A few twists before the truth emerges.
Enjoyable enough read,but won't be very memorable I fear.

This was a okay mystery thriller for me. Sadly I just couldn’t connect to the characters and didn’t really find myself getting sucked into the plot. The overall story was fine and the writhing was okay. I just didn’t connect with it sadly.