The Last to Know, Jo Furniss
The Last to Know, Jo Furniss
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The Last to Know

Author: Jo Furniss

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/11/2020


Synopsis

A family’s past pursues them like a shadow in this riveting and emotional novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of All the Little Children.American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There’s a lot for Rose to get used to in Hurtwood. Like the family’s crumbling mansion, inhabited by Dylan’s reclusive mother, and the treacherous hill it sits upon, a place of both sinister folklore and present dangers.Then there are the unwelcoming villagers, who only whisper the name Kynaston—like some dreadful secret, a curse. Everyone knows what happened at Hurtwood House twenty years ago. Everyone except Rose. And now that Dylan is back, so are rumors about his past.When an archaeological dig unearths human remains on the hill, local police sergeant Ellie Trevelyan vows to solve a cold case that has cast a chill over Hurtwood for decades.As Ellie works to separate rumor from fact, Rose must fight to clear the name of the man she loves. But how can Rose keep her family safe if she is the last to know the truth?

About Jo Furniss

Jo Furniss is the author of The Trailing Spouse and the Amazon Charts bestseller All the Little Children. After spending a decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo gave up the glamour of night shifts to become a freelance writer and serial expatriate. Originally from the United Kingdom, she spent seven years in Singapore and also lived in Switzerland and Cameroon. As a journalist, Jo worked for numerous online outlets and magazines, including Monocle and the Economist. She has edited books for a Nobel laureate and the palace of the sultan of Brunei. She has a Distinction in MA Professional Writing from Falmouth University. To keep in touch with Jo, please sign up for her newsletter at www.jofurniss.com or drop her a line at www.facebook.com/JoFurnissAuthor/.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

Rose and Dylan Kynaston both work in television production and they meet on location in Africa. They return to Dylan’s childhood home, Hurtwood House in Shropshire with their young son Aled. It soon becomes clear that Dylan’s mother Gwendoline is suffering from dementia as her behaviour is strange f......more

Goodreads review by Pat

I actually really enjoyed the book overall but I did have a couple of gripes with it. Dylan and Rose Kynaston and their 5 year old son, Aled, travel from Nigeria, where they have been working for some years as journalists, to Hurtwood in Shropshire, England. They arrive at the family pile, Hurtwood......more

Goodreads review by Louise

3.5 stars rounded up to 4 American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There's a lot for Rose to get used to in Hurtwood. Like the family's crumbling mansion, inhabited by Dylan's reclusive mother and the treach......more