The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave, 2021
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A husband disappears, leaving his wife and stepdaughter a cryptic note and a life that doesn’t add up. A fast, tender thriller about marriage and family.
Feels like serenity. About society.
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How a tragedy hides inside an ordinary Tuesday.
This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. Laura Dave.Laura Dave’s novel was Reese Witherspoon’s May 2021 book club pick and became an Apple TV+ series starring Jennifer Garner.
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- If you liked The Last Thing He Told Me, try The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware), The Divorce (Freida McFadden) and Silence (Becca Fitzpatrick).
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The line works as a thesis for the epistolary thriller: the narrator’s voice is both evidence and defence.
People do go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping for long enough...
The Turn of the Key · Ruth Ware
A wedding ring is not a legal obligation. It is a finger.
Even if we’re not married anymore, it would be weird not to have it on my finger anymore. And frankly, it’s not his choice to make. It’s my finger.
The Divorce · Freida McFadden
The childhood game you’d play in a place that now frightens you.
I stood at the foot of the sloping bridge, gripping the stone wall for support. I was sure the maybe-officer had seen me, but I moved into the shadows of the trees bowing over the river’s edge anyway. From my peripheral vision, the black water of the Wentworth River glinted. As kids, Vee and I had crouched under this very bridge, catching crawdads from the riverbank by inserting sticks speared with hotdog pieces into the water. The crawdads had fastened their claws to the hotdog, refusing to let go even when we lifted them out of the river and shook them loose in a bucket.
Silence · Becca Fitzpatrick
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