The Last Thing He Told Me

Author: Laura Dave
Publisher: Simon & Schuster 2021

It is a detective story, sort of.  Hannah’s husband Owen works as the chief technical officer at an upcoming Tech company disappears without trace one day.  He sent a note to Hannah with a kid from his 16 year daughter’s high school asking her to “protect his daughter.”  Hannah is a successful wood carver and Bailey is her husband’s only daughter form his first marriage.  The relationship between Bailey and her step mother was not cordial.  

Soon a US Martial and two FBI agents showed up at her house.  The tech firm her husband worked was accused of defrauding its shareholders.  The CEO of the tech firm is in custody and the incident is all over the news.

Hannah decided to find out what is going on with Owen.  Hannah and Bailey formed an uneasy  partnership in this common cause.  

This book reminds me of “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins. The story evolved very nicely for about three quarters of the book.  I think Laura rushed the last quarter of the story.  Had she maintained the same pace, then this could have been a very good book.  I still rate it as a 4 star book.