Sandy Mills

The Last Thing He Told Me is a tantalizing mystery edged with undefined danger. Hannah has recently married Owen and moved to Sausalito to live with him and his teenaged daughter, Bailey. Bailey adores her father and equally resists and resents her stepmother. About a year after Hannah’s and Owen’s marriage, Owen’s workplace is suddenly raided by Federal agents. In the resulting chaos Owen seems to disappear. Hannah and Bailey each receive a short, enigmatic note from Owen, seeming to acknowledge his disappearance without explanation. As friends of each of them begins to suspect Owen of being responsible for the company’s crimes, neither of them feels they can move forward without some kind of reason, or understanding. The reader, knowing everything Hannah and Bailey know, follows their search for understanding; their shocking discoveries, their dead ends, and their anxious, slow progress. The tension accelerates as Hannah and Bailey seem to be working against an undefined deadline toward an uncertain ending they both fear but need. I think this is a really well-written mystery-suspense book. I read it in one day, and don’t think I’ll easily forget the characters or their story.