Famous Last Words

This was everything I’d hoped for from McAllister’s latest relationally-driven thriller. On the longest day of the year, London literary agent Camilla drops her daughter at daycare and heads to work after her maternity leave. That’s when she gets the call: her husband is involved in a hostage situation. Then she learns he’s not a hostage; he’s holding the hostages—but how could that be true of her kind-hearted, fun-loving husband? Camilla won’t get any answers, because law enforcement’s attempts to apprehend her husband are unsuccessful. The story’s second perspective comes from hostage negotiator Niall, whose life and career were ruined by that same botched siege. Like Camilla, he can’t let go of the baffling and still-unexplained events of that day. When new evidence surfaces years later, the two team up to figure out what really happened.