Laura Dave has released her new novel – The Last Thing He Told Me – her first thriller that is a spell-binding thriller. Pick up a copy of the novel here.
The Last Thing He Told Me is the first thriller by celebrated author Laura Dave. Already the book has been optioned as a TV show, starring Julia Roberts and has been chosen as a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.
The novel is a gripping mystery telling the story of a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life until he disappears. Hannah is happily married to Owen Michaels until one day she is smuggled a note simply saying ‘Protect Her.’ Despite her confusion and fear, she knows that the note refers to 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. On the news, Hannah finds out that Owen’s company is being investigated for fraud. Increasingly desperate to locate Owen as the FBI arrests Owen’s colleagues, Hannah embarks on a search to find more about Owen’s past and why he disappears, with Bailey’s help – unpicking her childhood memories. As they begin to put together fragments of these memories, they discover that Owen’s past is nowhere near what the two thought it was. More than just a mystery and propulsive thriller, the story increasingly becomes an investigation into the relationship between Hannah and Bailey – a layered dynamic that Dave unpicks with ease.
The novel moves at a breakneck pace, with startling plot twists. It is an evocative and riveting family drama that continually sets the reader off balance. Completely unpredictable, the story is enticing and positions Dave as the next great mystery writer and this novel as one of the breakout hits of 2021.
