The Last Thread by Michelle Powers

Unputdownable and haunting in all the best ways! 

Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I didn’t expect to fall so hard for this book, but I should’ve known better because it is a Michelle Powers book after all and I have loved everything by her I’ve read so far– she never disappoints. This one hooked me quietly and then sunk its teeth in deep. 

At first glance, The Last Thread felt like it was going to be a story about divorce, grief, and starting over—but it’s not that at all. It’s about the stories women aren’t allowed to tell out loud. About trauma that doesn’t come with police reports. About how we women cope when the world doesn’t see us, or believe us, until we’re the cautionary tale. 

This is a gripping thriller about a woman, Jenna, who gets sucked into a true crime mystery that she can’t seem to get out of her mind after scrolling through an online forum. Jenna is too curious for her own safety. Her late-night scrolling through this true crime forum felt way too familiar (how many of us have done that at 2am, chasing someone else’s pain because it distracts from our own?). But what she finds there… that cold case… the way it loops back into her life? Absolutely chilling. Not in the “boo!” way. In the “this could actually happen” way. In the “is this really happening to her” way. 

And Widow’s Bluff? Creepy little coastal town that somehow manages to be both sleepy and suffocating, yet sounds like a picturesque place I’d love to live. I could smell the damp air and feel the weight of all the unsaid things. The women Jenna meets there—seem to be the instant best friends she has needed so badly. And when the threads they start to pull at are tangled with Jenna’s personal life? Goosebumps.

This book dared me to follow the thread and encourage the women to get to the bottom of it all, even when I knew they shouldn’t. And when they did? It unraveled everything.

One of the most human seemingly realistic mysteries I’ve read in a while that felt like it could have been either based on a true story or should be made into a movie tomorrow. Quietly brutal, beautifully written, and sharp in all the right places. You don’t want to miss this one for sure!