The Last Thing He Told Me was “Protect her.” In this domestic thriller by Laura Dave, Hannah Hall is thrown into a tizzy when her husband Owen goes missing and her 16-year-old stepdaughter brings home from school a duffle bag filled with thousands of dollars.
Hannah knows the “her” in the mysterious note refers to Owen’s daughter, who lost her mother when she was a small child. Worse, Bailey does not like Hannah’s intrusion into her perfect life with just her father.
With a U.S. Marshall to her left and the FBI to her right, Hannah does not know what to believe beyond what the news says: the company Owen works for has committed fraud. Hannah leans on her former fiancé who is an attorney for guidance. When it appears that the U.S. Marshall is legit and has his office in Austin, Texas, Hannah decides to take Bailey and leave their home in Sausalito, California, and head to Austin for some answers.
Trying to investigate on her own, Hannah soon finds that she has put both herself and Bailey in peril as they start to come close to the truth, a truth Bailey never knew about. How will Owen’s deep, dark secrets change all of their lives?
I have read all of Laura Dave’s books including Eight Hundred Grapes and The First Husband, and I could not put this one down until I finished it. This latest book has already been optioned for a movie. Dave lives in Santa Monica, California.
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