The Last Thing I Told You: A Novel

Psychiatrist Dr. Mark Fabian is dead—bludgeoned in his office. Detective Henry Peacher investigates Fabian's death and finds that shortly before his death, he pulled the files of 2 former patients. One file is of Johnny Streeter, a man now serving a life sentence for a mass shooting. Ironically, Peacher is the cop who shot him before he could kill anyone else. The other file is of Nadine Raines. Again, there's a link between her and Peacher ... he was in the same classroom when she attacked the teacher with a box cutter. She's been gone many years ..so why has she come back now? And why would these files be pulled when neither of them had been patients for 20 years? As Nadine and Henry head toward a confrontation, both will discover that the secrets of people’s hearts are rarely simple, and—even in the hidden depths of a psychologist’s files—rarely as they appear. This is an amazing psychological thriller. The story kept me glued to the pages anxiously awaiting what would come next. This thread attaches to that thread that affixes itself to yet another thread. I love how this book is cleverly written. Alternating chapters are told in turn by Nadine and Peacher. Nadine is still talking to the doctor in her head ... but did she kill him? There were things she never told him ... Peacher tells the story of how he got to be the hero-cop, a moniker he doesn't really like. His personal life is also talked about .. mainly about his twin daughters. It's a police procedural in how investigations should be run and how the clues start coming together with a lot of door-knocking and asking the right questions. All in all, a terrific book that kept me guessing until the very end. Many thanks to the author / William Morrow Books / Edelweiss for the advanced copy of this psychological thriller. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.