Lisa Jewell fans will be well satisfied." - Publishers Weekly "In this inventive, deftly woven novel, John Searles conjures a world populated by eccentrics and dreamers who are desperate for a second chance and willing to do almost anything to get it. Insightful." - Shelf Awareness "A tense, intricately woven tale of heartbreak, retribution, and redemption. As in his previous three novels, John Searles's low-boil plot hinges on slowly but forcefully building suspense, while subtly dropping clues to the characters' psychological makeup. 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 Me "Love and revenge commingle until it's almost impossible to tell one from the other in the fascinating, character-driven Her Last Affair. Delightfully creepy." - People "John Searles' latest thriller is a winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you'll never see coming. Her Last Affair is a perfect, page-turning example of the heart and horror that makes me love his work so very, very much., "In this circuitous mystery, the lives of a widow with a shadowy past, her charming male tenant, a woman desperate to escape her loveless marriage and a travel writer with anger issues intersect and explode into more than one shocking ending. Sweet, precocious, desperate Sylvie is a memorable young striver in the tradition of Scout Finch, and Help for the Haunted is an exceptional piece of storytelling, finally not about demons, but human beings who are all too flawed and all too real., 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. has crafted a strange, spooky world that is absolutely believable. 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. 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. While in New York City, Jeremy, a failed and bitter writer, accepts an assignment to review a new restaurant in Providence. 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. A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell. 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. Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. 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 Me Every marriage has its secrets. "A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you'll never see coming.
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