The Last Thing She Remembers

May 1, 2019
A young woman shows up in a small Wiltshire village sure of nothing but her home. But when she rings the bell, the house is inhabited by a couple who say they've never seen her. They invite her to spend the night, hoping a good night's sleep will bring her memory back. She awakens still with a blank canvas, but this time locals think she may be a murderer returning to the scene of the crime. Turns out several men in the village have a personal interest in her story, motivated by very different desires. Like Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train (2015) or S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep (2011), Monroe's latest novel (following Find Me, 2017) features a main character whose unreliability is itself unreliable. Fans of dark domestic fiction will be entertained.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)