The Last to Know

By: Jo Furniss

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

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?

©2020 by Joanne Furniss. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Awful Narration

The story was pretty good but the narrator was not. The combination of overwrought speaking and the sharp intake of breath after almost every sentence was very distracting

Fun Story

I enjoyed the story. Parts of it were obviously predictable in an obvious sense of the things. The narration was awful. Even Mistress Payne could not save that. Awful. I would reckon that even the narrator would agree if she listened to it. Awful.

Atmospheric Mystery

If you enjoyed Broadchurch or The Five on TV, you’ll like this. It was a great story and I liked the narrator.

Good book, not narrator.

Good book but narration was bad. I was disappointed as I loved All the Little Children, but if the narrator can’t do well it ruins it.

Confusing & Terrible Narration

Jo Furniss wrote one of my favorite books ever, and this isn't it. I can't tell if the tedious and overwrought narration, which was so difficult to listen to, lead to my total confusion. It could've been the story itself. It seemed to have two separate time periods, with no clue as to which one we were in at any given time, but I'm not even sure that was the case. This book was unlisten-to-able. So sad cuz I had alot of hope.

Hard to get into!

I ended up giving up on this one. The narration was dull and the story took too long to get moving.

Terrible narration

The narration was so dire it was a struggle to listen. I felt like returning the book for a credit refund. Jo Furniss has a perky writing style but her endings tend to disappoint and she goes for thrills rather than depth and revelation. You have the feeling that with a smudge of effort, she could be so much more. But she’s not a Kate Atkinson or a Sarah Waters.