“The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave (2021)

“Owen used to like to tease me about how I lose everything, about how, in my own way, I have raised losing things to an art form.”

I don’t often read out-and-out thrillers, but sometimes I dive in and lose myself in the formula for a while.

The day started out like any other, but everything changed for Hannah when a schoolgirl arrives on her doorstep with a note from Owen, Hannah’s husband. It simply says, “Protect her”. Hannah knows who the note is about – her teenage stepdaughter Bailey, with ...