The last affair / Margot Hunt.

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The last affair

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"Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can't stay away from one another. Abby Landon, Josh's daughter, is home from college nursing a broken heart. She's seeking solace, not more scandal, so when she catches her dad kissing Nora, she vows to take the homewrecker down. And as for Abby's mother and Josh's wife, Gwen? To anyone on the outside looking in, the mother of two appears to be living the ideal suburban life. Until she winds up dead. The serene seaside town of Shoreham has always been the perfect place to raise a family--not somewhere housewives are brutally murdered. So who killed Gwen Landon, and how many twisted secrets will be exposed as the vindictive plot comes undone?"--Provided by publisher.

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English

ISBN - ISSN:

9780778309222

0778309223

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Married people -- Fiction.

Adultery -- Fiction.

College students -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Wives -- Death -- Fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction).

Suspense fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

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Summary

Love may be blind, but obsession's a real killer.

Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can't stay away from one another.

Abby Landon, Josh's daughter, is home from college nursing a broken heart. She's seeking solace, not more scandal, so when she catches her dad kissing Nora, she vows to take the homewrecker down.

And as for Abby's mother and Josh's wife, Gwen? To anyone on the outside looking in, the mother of two appears to be living the ideal suburban life.

Until she winds up dead.

The serene seaside town of Shoreham has always been the perfect place to raise a family--not somewhere housewives are brutally murdered. So who killed Gwen Landon, and how many twisted secrets will be exposed as the vindictive plot comes undone?

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

This propulsive domestic thriller from Hunt (For Better or Worse) opens with the police arriving at the upscale South Florida home of 49-year-old Gwen Landon, a married mother of two, whose dead body lies in the backyard. Flash back six months. Gwen wants to be something other than a homemaker, having abandoned college for the sake of the career of her physician husband, Josh. Josh, who's discontented with his marriage, begins an affair with housewife Nora Holliday, who wants to leave her alcoholic husband. As Josh and Nora's affair intensifies, Gwen targets the wrong woman in an attempt to uncover her husband's infidelities. Meanwhile, Gwen and Josh's college-age daughter, Abby, spots Josh kissing Nora and resolves to punish her father. Hunt builds suspense through the alternating perspectives of each of the three women. The action hurtles toward an astonishing conclusion. Fans of Paula Hawkins and Megan Abbott will be gratified. Agent: Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary. (Nov.)

Booklist Review

Gwen Landon has been murdered. By whom and why requires going back six months, delving into her thoughts and actions and those of her family and the parents of patients in her husband's dental practice in a small coastal Florida town. It starts in October with a chance encounter between Nora, unhappily married to Carter, a recovering alcoholic, and Josh Landon while Josh and Nora are both out of town on business, an encounter that turns into an affair. It escalates when Josh and Gwen's daughter, Abby, who has left college because she caught her roommate with her boyfriend and is now living at home, sees Josh and Nora in a car at a deserted beach. It gets worse when Abby finds a pretext to meet with Carter and tells him what she knows. And further complicated when another patient's mother stalks Josh, both at home and at a disastrous Valentine's Day benefit. Largely from the alternating perspectives of Nora, Gwen, and Abby, this gripping psychological thriller explores the reasons two marriages are unhappy and the ways vengeance-seeking women pursue their target.--Karen Muller Copyright 2019 Booklist