Till Death Do Us Part
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- ¥1,800
発行者による作品情報
A “seductive, addictive, and penetrating” (Samantha M. Bailey, #1 internationally bestselling author of A Friend in the Dark) thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive?
Ten years ago, June’s beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon, his body never found. Now, a decade later, June is finally ready to move on. She owns a natural wine bar in Brooklyn and is engaged to a patient, supportive man. She’s excited to finally begin a new chapter in her life and start a family.
But out of the blue, she sees him—Josh, her first husband. Is this just a hallucination from the guilt Jane carries about finally moving on, or is it possible that her husband never died in the first place?
June tries to forget about this vision, chalking it up to grief and nerves, but soon enough, she stumbles across a website for a winery in Napa, and the owner in the photo is identical to her dead husband. With her upcoming wedding looming and a fiancé who’s already worried she hasn’t quite left her past behind, June secretly flies to Napa for answers. But she’s not prepared for all the secrets she’s about to unlock because everything she thought she knew about her first love is a lie.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this half-hearted domestic thriller from Flynn (The Girls Are All So Nice Here), a woman has her impending wedding derailed by the emergence of her missing first husband. In 2012, when newlyweds June and Josh were on their honeymoon in San Francisco, Josh left their hotel one morning and never returned; unable to locate his body, authorities assumed he drowned after attempting to swim in rough waters. Ten years later, a 39-year-old June has opened a wine bar in Brooklyn and fallen for the stable and supportive Kyle. When Kyle proposes, June enthusiastically accepts, and they make quick work of their wedding prep—until June spots a man who looks exactly like Josh on the street one afternoon, and he disappears before she can confront him. Convinced that Josh is still alive, June grows obsessed with finding him, jeopardizing her relationship with Kyle. Meanwhile, chapters set in 1999 and written from the perspective of Josh's mother, Bev, gradually fill in key details about Josh's adolescence. Flynn serves up plenty of steamy sex and wrings emotion from June's plight, but the plotting grows sloppier as the novel wears on, and the denouement comes too late. This misses the mark.
