To The Last Page

E.V. Kelly opens her debut psychological thriller in an intriguing fashion, where the witness to a shocking incident isn't even sure what she is has just seen. Cassandra Hogan has just arrived early to pick her husband Jeff from his early morning therapeutic swim on the beach when she sees a woman running towards him, stripping off clothes only to collapse to the ground after embracing him, apparently dead. She is so stunned by what she has seen and by her husband's lack of open reaction or acknowledgement of what has happened, that she says nothing. As their young son is in the car with them, she is unsure how to bring the matter up. Who was that woman? Why was she there? What even happened? She is perhaps unsure of what she saw, and unsure how to ask about it, but the longer she remains silent, we begin to suspect that on some level she doesn't really want to know or confront this. The reasons for her hesitancy and uncertainty become clearer as we find out more about Jeff...