THE LAST AFFIAR
Author: Margot Hunt
ISBN: 9780778309222
Publication Date: November 26, 2019
Publisher: MIRA BOOKS
BOOK SUMMARY:
Gwen Landon—poster woman for perfect wife, mother, and suburban bliss—is found brutally bludgeoned to death behind her Floridian McMansion. Beautiful and beloved by her community, Gwen makes an unlikely victim. But just a scratch below the surface of her perfectly curated world reveals one far more sinister. When looking back over the six months leading up to her death, the question of, “who would do this?” quickly shifts to, “who wouldn’t?”
Commercially successful food blogger and mother of three, Nora Holliday never imagined she would have the nerve, let alone time, to get involved an affair. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, she does whatever it takes to keep it all together. But when Nora runs into Gwen Landon's husband at a hotel in Orlando, his easy kindness and warmth proves too tempting to resist. As their affair spirals dangerously out of control, it seems things can’t get more complicated—until Gwen turns up dead.
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Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐
There have been a ton of domestic dramas/thrillers lately, and chances are if you've read any of them, you've read most of them. The Last Affair is no different in that respect. There's really nothing new here. It's the execution that sets it apart. We have the usual bunch of players in this twisted game, and honestly, none of them are particularly likable. The story starts with a dead body, so there's no question about who is going to die. She's already been murdered. Then we head back a few months to what started it all. Well, some of the issues these people have took a lifetime to hone into real problems, but a few months before the murder is where we go. The blurb tells us there's an affair, and Gwen Landon is dead. So it's just a matter of figuring out the whodunit. I have to hand it to Margot Hunt. The red herrings are everywhere, and nearly everyone who comes into close contact with this woman has reason to at least hate her, and given the issues among this crowd, it wouldn't take much to turn that hate into murder. She's about as unlikable as it gets, and she's not even the one who had the affair! I mentioned earlier that the execution is what sets this one apart, and that's where the pacing and the author's ability to draw me in play a part. Both were well done, and I particularly liked the climax for the murder. Hunt did an excellent job of keeping everyone a suspect to the bitter end. Okay, not the very end. The story does go on a bit longer after the big reveal to tie everything up, and there's one last twist that I really didn't find completely necessary. Other than that, I completely enjoyed the story, and I look forward to whatever Margot Hunt does next.
BIO: Margot Hunt is a critically acclaimed author of psychological suspense. Her work has been praised by Publisher's Weekly, Booklist and Kirkus Reviews.
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