The Last Thing He Told Me

Genre: Mystery / Suspense / Contemporary

Book Type: Physical

Author: Laura Dave

Pages: 320

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Book Club edition (May 4, 2021)

Book Description:

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated. With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.

Thoughts:

This book is worth all the hype. I loved it and couldn’t put it down!

In search of answers, after receiving a mysterious note that says, “Protect her,” Hannah sets out to find her husband who appears to have vanished after the company Owen works for is raided by the FBI. Why did he run and leave them? As a newly married woman and step-mom to teenaged Bailey, they are led down a path of lies, memories and a past Bailey is struggling to remember, but may hold the key to everything. What is Owen guilty of, and what is he hiding?

I cannot wait to see this turned into film, especially when Julia Roberts is already signed on!

This book is told in present tense as well as flashbacks to when Hannah and Owen first met and got to the day he disappeared. It’s full of mystery, love, suspense, lies, family, heartache, pain, forgiveness and sacrifice. It wasn’t at all the book I thought it was, but at the heart of it, is about a parent’s love and protection of a child. Absolute must read!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Contemporary #drama #Mystery #suspense #mysterycontemporary