Her Last Affair, John Searles
Her Last Affair, John Searles
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Her Last Affair
A Novel

Author: John Searles

Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 10 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mariner

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

"A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you’ll never see coming. You won’t soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeEvery marriage has its secrets….Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis’s death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell….A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty. Bored by her spouse and fired from her job when a questionable photo from her youth surfaces on social media, her only source of joy is an on-line affair with her very first love, a man she’s not seen in nearly thirty years, Teddy Cornwell…While in New York City, Jeremy, a failed and bitter writer, accepts an assignment to review a new restaurant in Providence. Years ago, Providence was the site of his first great love and first great heartbreak—and maybe, just maybe, he’ll look her up when he’s back in town…Part page-turning thriller, part homage to film noir, and dazzling in its insight into the often desperate desires of the human heart, Her Last Affair is a tense and atmospheric novel of love lost and found again. 

About John Searles

John Searles is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of four novels. His books have been published in over a dozen languages and have been voted “Best of the Year” or top picks by Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Salon and the American Library Association. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post, John was a top editor at Cosmopolitan for two decades, first hired by Helen Gurley Brown.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on March 02, 2022

3.5 stars, rounded up This is a clever, twisty tale. It's not a straightforward psychological suspense, but if you've read anything else by this author you'll know that he doesn't write straightforward books. The story features three main characters, and the narrative shifts back and forth between th......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 06, 2021

John Searles brings the misfits among us to life with the clarity of Carson McCullers — and then scares us with the brilliance of Stephen King. Her Last Affair is a perfect, page-turning example of the heart and horror that makes me love his work so very, very much.......more

Goodreads review by Heather Adores Books on April 23, 2023

3.5⭐ rounded up This was an interesting one for sure. A bit odd. It jumps all around between their pov's and the timeline, which sometimes confused me. The biggest thing I think these main characters have in common is that they are all lonely. Skyla ~ in her 70's, former nurse, widowed a year prior an......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on June 01, 2022

Oh, this is a fun, new, twisty thriller! Check it out: “From the bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True, a new novel of character-driven psychological suspense that intertwines three people hoping to rediscover love and reconnect with their past, to deadly effect. Every marri......more

Goodreads review by Mary on March 14, 2022

Haunting, stirring, chilling . . . John Searles' Her Last Affair is all of this and more. Set in a long-abandoned drive-in movie theater, with three unforgettable characters, this book is truly an affair to remember.......more