About the author
Laura Dave is an American novelist whose books combine family and relationship fiction with the pressure of a mystery. She is best known for The Last Thing He Told Me, in which disappearance turns a stepmother and daughter into reluctant investigators.
The Last Thing He Told Me is a domestic mystery organized around an improvised alliance between stepmother and daughter. Laura Dave treats protection not as secrecy alone, but as the difficult choice to build a family from what remains after the secret breaks.
Where to start
Start with The Last Thing He Told Me. When Owen Michaels disappears, he leaves his wife a note with two words—protect her—and his teenage daughter determined not to trust her.
