The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Rebecca Lowman (Narrator) made this story come to life so much so that I forgot to turn off the Fire and go to sleep. I remember it being light outside as I made myself put the story away.
Here’s the blurb that grabbed me:
We all have stories we never tell.
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her.
Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: 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.
As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered; as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss; as a US Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah nor Bailey could have anticipated.
It wasn’t a murder mystery, but it kept you wondering if Hannah was foolish in trying to find her husband. And you wonder if her step daughter will ever accept Hannah.
It was fun, and I enjoyed a new kind of woman. She was strong and had her own life but was open to caring for her stepdaughter with a full-blown love of her own.
I was lucky to find this on Libby to borrow. Hope you like it too.
Darswords 