Book Review: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

by Laura Dave (Dave)

 

Here’s the situation: your doorbell rings and a 12-year-old girl in a soccer uniform dispassionately hands you a note from your husband. All it says is “Protect her,” obviously referring to your stepdaughter Bailey. You can’t reach him by phone. He doesn’t come home. You are stuck at home with a 16-year-old stepdaughter who hates you, who also received a message. But hers came with a duffel bag stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

 

Hannah Hall, a wood turning artist, has to question everything she has ever really known about her husband, Owen Michaels, when he disappears. His boss and the company he works for is under investigation by the FBI for fraud. Is the conscientious, loving man she thought she knew part of the fraud, or is he hiding something deeper and more sinister? And at the end of the story, you may ask yourself if you would make the same heart-breaking choice as Hannah makes.

 

The Last Thing He Told Me has a fantastic plot and is wonderfully told. So wonderfully that you will find you are going to want to read more titles by Laura Dave. But you may find you have to wait your turn. At this writing, all of her other books in the Lincoln City Library system are already on hold.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson or Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.)

 

( publisher’s official The Last Thing He Told Me web page ) | ( official Laura Dave web site )

 

Recommended by Cindy K.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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