The Lost Night: A Novel

What really happened the night Edie died? Ten years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn just how unprepared she is for the truth. In 2009, in a loft complex in Bushwick, Edie is the shining star of a group of recent college graduates. Seductive, mercurial, and beguiling, Edie has the social world in her thrall, and she and her best friends treat New York like a playground. When she commits suicide at the end of a long, drunken night, no one can quite believe it. But an overwhelming mix of grief, shock, and long-standing resentment force each friend into their own corner, and, for years, that's where they stay. A decade later, Lindsay is content with her life and has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has a thriving career in magazines, lives in a cosy apartment, and has true adult friendships. But when a chance reunion leads Lindsay to discover an unsettling video from that terrible, hazy night, she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered--and, worse perhaps, if she herself was involved. As she rifles through those months in 2009--combing through case files, old technology, and her fractured memory--Lindsay is forced to confront the demons of her own violent history to bring the truth to light.