The First Time I Saw Him
The unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me - now a blockbuster Apple TV show
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3.8 • 50 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
*A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB SELECTION!*
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES – The Last Thing He Told Me. Season Two, based on The First Time I Saw Him, coming soon!*
Get ready to be gripped by the edge-of-your seat new mystery thriller and long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Last Thing He Told Me.
'I could not stop flipping the pages' Reese Witherspoon
‘Out of this world… Five stars' Jennifer Garner
'Action-packed and deeply felt… incredible’ Mary Kubica, bestselling author of Local Woman Missing
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HE DISAPPEARED. NOW HE’S BACK. AND THEY HAVE TO RUN.
Five years ago, Hannah’s husband Owen vanished without a trace, leaving Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey to piece together a new life from the wreckage.
When Hannah spots Owen at her Los Angeles exhibition – silent, watching – she knows immediately that the danger they once escaped has found them again.
Then comes the message:
‘GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. NOW’
Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them, pursued by enemies they cannot see and haunted by questions that have never been answered.
Why has Owen returned? Who is hunting them?
And can they finally uncover the truth before it destroys them all?
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Praise for Laura Dave and The First Time I Saw Him:
‘Clever, compulsive and twisty as hell. Cancel all your plans before you start this one, I had to remind myself to breathe during the final, devastating pages’ – CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark
'Powerful, intense and beautifully observed' - T.M. LOGAN, bestselling author of The Holiday
‘You won’t want to miss this one’ HARLAN COBEN, bestselling author of Think Twice
'A brilliant thriller' - JANE CASEY, bestselling author of the Detective Maeve Kerrigan series
‘It’s gripping, twisty, exhilarating, and utterly unputdownable. Five blazing stars from me!’ 5-star reader review
‘Wow, I couldn't put this book down!’ 5-star reader review
‘Oh my word. This much-anticipated book is everything I had hoped for and more’ 5-star reader review
‘This book has fantastic pacing and will keep you up all night’ 5-star reader review
‘Pure adrenaline’ 5-star reader review
‘A truly gripping psychological thriller!’ 5-star reader review
‘One of the best books I have read this year’ 5-star reader review
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The reappearance of a missing man puts his wife and child at risk in this fast-paced thriller. Five years ago, Hannah Hall’s husband, Owen, disappeared, leaving her and her stepdaughter, Bailey, to forge a new life. Now Owen has reappeared, signalling that Hannah and Bailey must flee the ruthless crime syndicate that caused him to run years before. Best-selling author Laura Dave knows how to portray the heart-rending twists and turns of complicated family relationships, all while delivering adventure at a breakneck speed. In Dave’s sleek prose, Hannah and Bailey—and even Owen—learn hard lessons about trust and forgiveness, making us sigh and yearn even as we held our breath in fear. Weaving together multiple viewpoints, the author amps up the tension in a globe-trotting race through beautiful settings that make the danger feel even more discordant. A non-stop thrill ride with love at its centre, The First Time I Saw Him kept us breathless.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dave's heart-pounding sequel to The Last Thing He Told Me picks up five years after artist Hannah Hall's husband, Owen, disappeared and left her to care for his surly teenage daughter, Bailey, in Southern California. In the interim, Hannah and Bailey have forged a close relationship, and worked toward repairing Bailey's connection with her maternal grandfather, Nicholas, whose involvement with a crime syndicate sent Owen on the run. The women's stability is disrupted when Owen reappears at one of Hannah's art exhibitions and slips a message into her pocket warning her that she and Bailey are in danger. For reasons Hannah doesn't understand, a deal brokering their safety has fallen through, and the women are forced to flee. Meanwhile, chapters following Nicholas and Owen reveal that the men have spent the last five years working to orchestrate an elaborate compromise with Nicholas's former colleagues that guarantees their family's permanent freedom. The pacing is brisk from the very first page, with Dave nimbly juggling multiple perspectives and timelines en route to a finale that provides readers with satisfying answers to their questions. The result is a solid suspense novel with plenty of appeal for Dave fans and newcomers alike.
