Don’t Forget Me is dark but lacking.
I’ll start with the interaction between characters, the dialogue is stiff....to be harsh it’s awkward.
I personally find it difficult to enjoy any story that has a cliffhanger, as a reader it feels like a waste of me time.

An intriguing book and premise but one I felt I couldn't get on board with. Two main stories with several different threads that I felt hard to keep track off at times. Some of the book seemed stilted but this could be the translation I'm not sure. Sometimes German books in German read a little stilted for me so it could be that.

The novel seemed full of plots and threads yet it was hard to follow at times. It was sad to read about the father mind! That bit got me.

Not my cup of tea. Too packed for my liking.

An easy to read, engrossing thriller. 4 stars!

I was intrigued by the cover and description of this mystery novel, dealing with 2 separate cases - one is following the death of Lisa Manz, the other the disappearance of one of the main character's husband and daughter five years ago.

The book was well-written and quite simplistic which made it a quick, enthralling read. I very much enjoyed it and would like to read more from the authors, and more in the Levi Kant series. I'm not thoroughly intrigued about the plot of the next book!

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for my review copy.

Would recommend for: if you like detective police shows like The Sinner on Netflix, this might be perfect for you. It really reminded me of that series a lot.

Don’t Forget Me is a thriller based in Vienna, the English translation of a book written originally in German. It is mostly narrated by Olivia, a psychiatrist coming to terms with a personal tragedy, who gets drawn into the investigation of a cold-case murder when one of patients claims to have seen the murder victim very much alive and well. Aiding her in this journey is Levi, a cop put out to pasture after a near-fatal GSW and the then investigating officer of the murder cold-case.

Olivia and Levi race to chase down the new leads, while being perpetually thwarted by a mystery nemesis. They, like the reader, bounce from theory to theory and this accelerates as we reach the climax.

Thank you to NetGalley for a Kindle ARC of Don't Forget Me.

I'm always on the lookout for a mystery/thriller featuring a female protagonist but this didn't meet my expectations.

The writing is poor, as well as the character development.

The characters lack exposition and details, the mystery is lacking, there is no suspense or excitement and the mystery is not really a mystery.

A rather strange but interesting storyline based in Austria. A woman whose husband and daughter disappeared five years ago who receives a postcard every year on the anniversary of their disappearance and another case of an unsolved murder from five years ago. The mother and semi retired detective get together and solve the murder, the disappearance of her husband and daughter remains unsolved.

This was my first book by this author, It was pretty enjoyable. I would give this book a 3.5 star rating! It was a pretty Quick and easy read!

This is a mystery within a mystery. While the protagonist tries to solve one who done it, she is distraught because her daughter and husband are missing. The story is written in a somewhat disjointed manner that requires the reader to try to keep the events straight. One might wonder if the protagonist’s family is alive or perhaps they died and she can’t accept it.
An aside is her father who suffers with Altzeimers. Although the protagonist is interesting, the other characters don’t come across as really ampart od the story. The plot is convoluted to say the least and is somewhat gruesome.
All in all, perhaps too many issues addressed in one book.

Psychiatrist Olivia Hoffmann has dealt with the grief and anguish of her husband and daughter’s disappearance every day for five years. They vanished at the same time that the body of missing teen Lisa Manz was found. A coincidence? Every year Olivia gets a postcard from someone claiming to be sorry. Sorry for what? Things get even stranger when one of Olivia’s patients claims to have seen Lisa – alive. Olivia teams up with detective Levi Kant to uncover the truth about what happened to both Lisa and Olivia’s family

Thank you to Netgalley, the author B.C. Schiller and Amazon publishing UK for the ARC of Don't Forget Me in exchange for my honest review.
I have mixed feelings about this book. It flowed nicely and was easy to get into right from the start. Some of the passages seemed somewhat irrelevant to the rest of the story. The main story was solved in the end but the secondary plot was left with a cliffhanger. Overall, I enjoyed this book .

Thank you NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for the eARC.
Psychiatrist Olivia Hofmann's husband and daughter disappeared 5 years ago, leaving her devastated. The only family she has left is her father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's and beside her private practice and the couple of days she works with mental patients at a psychiatric facility, she takes care of him as well. She gets involved in the cold case of a 14-year old girl who escaped from the psychiatric facility and who's body was found burned to death, and is working alongside an ex-policeman who cannot forget about the case, which was never solved.
The 2 of them find themselves in danger...someone doesn't want them to find the truth.
I'm in 2 minds about the book. Although enjoyable, I found it hard to connect with the characters and the story seemed unrealistic at times and also disjointed. I wondered if was part of a series and this book was somewhere in the middle of it instead of starting with no.1. I did like the setting of Vienna.

Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a page-turning thriller that I really enjoyed. I definitely did not see the plot twists coming. The overall story/motivation was very disturbing (especially the diary entries by the victim) and may warrant a trigger warning. The end really picked up and I was really pleased how the main story was wrapped up. I was disappointed by the cliffhanger. I felt like a major plot point of the book (at least from the summary) was glossed over and often forgotten.

Overall, a quick read and thrilling story!

The synopsis of Don’t Forget Me by B.C. Schiller sounded so intriguing to me, a husband and child missing for 5 years and the murder of a troubled teen in the same time frame, add to this the amazing cover and I was sold.

Sadly, these were the only redeeming things about the book. The dialogue between the characters is stilted and difficult, almost awkward. This made it hard for me to become invested in the story or the characters. Along with the awkward dialogue is the sense that the author is filling in the blanks to tie up the story with information that seemed a bit contrived and sometimes, extremely unrealistic, even for fiction.

It truly pains me to say that I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone, nor would I read anything else by this author. I gave this book 2 stars because I think some of the problems I had with the book were due in part to the translation from German to English.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

spoiler alert ** I don't know if there was something lost in translation,but this book,for me,lacked depth.
There were two stories (the coat,the husband/child) that seemed a bit pointless mentioning other than to sew seeds for other stories,but if so,fit them better into the story.
The whole plot seemed a bit ott.

A very easy read though.

An excellent novel that really draws you in. I was immersed in the storyline and couldn't stop reading well past my bedtime. Highly recommended.