I was so excited to dive into this book - the premise seemed so intriguing. A man dies, unexplained a week after getting married and from what i gathered a body was never recovered.

The story goes back and forth to different POVs, different time lines - just it was A LOT.

I felt all of the characters were extremely unlikeable and it extremely hard to connect to them and want the best / their goal in the story. I felt like there was way too much going on between looking for the supposedly dead husband to planning a wedding to having the potentially not dead husband cheating on the new wife.

I felt like my head was spinning the entire time and it just wasn’t a book for me.

The ending of this book makes the book worth the read.

If you like wine and stories that don’t quite add up. This is the book for you. The first two parts of the book are slow. I wanted to DNF this book a few times. I’m so glad I didn’t. The book picks up in the second half and is very good with lots of twists.

The ending is so good and makes me so happy I didn’t stop reading the book.

Overall, I enjoyed this book. I found myself excited to pick it up again each night. It's a dual perspective/timeline book, so lots of jumping around and trying to match and connect past to present. The ending fell flat for me - it felt a little out of nowhere even if it *technically* made sense. Unfortunately, it didn't sit right and there were some open threads (though those may have been intentional). It was good, but unfortunately, just not great. Would have loved at least one chapter from Josh's POV to get closure on the secondary mystery and his overall demeanor.

This was a thoroughly entertaining domestic thriller! Highly recommend for fans of The Last Thing He Told Me. I didn't see the twist at the end coming.

In the mystery Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn coming out August 13, June Emery is shocked when her husband Josh Kelly who drowned during their honeymoon in 2012 shows up near her natural wine bar in Brooklyn, New York, in August of 2022. Next, while perusing websites for Napa Valley wineries for honeymoon possibilities with her fiancé Kyle Parker, she finds a photo of her first husband on one of the websites. Does one plus one equal a living Josh?

Before she gets married again, June must go to Napa and confront Andrew Smith at his winery. She will be blown away by all the secrets that have been kept over the years, learning that all she knew about Josh Kelly was not the whole truth.

On a separate timeline in 1999 in Napa County, Bev and her husband David run the Golden Grape Winery, having taken it over from his family. Bev finds a restaurant receipt for two dinners at a restaurant she has not been to in quite some time. While first denying and sidestepping, David admits to a one-time “weak moment.” Bev throws him out of the house at just the worst time: the grapes are ready to be harvested. She realizes if they divorce, she will lose her home and her source of income as well as becoming a single parent of a child not yet one year old. She wishes she never found that receipt!

These two timelines will eventually come together in one twisty mystery that readers will not want to put down until the puzzles are solved.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, a former model who lives in London, Ontario, is the author of three young adult novels. Her adult fiction debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, was named a USA Today Best Book of 2021. Till Death Do Us Part, is her second adult novel.

My review will be posted on Goodreads starting April 22, 2024.

I would like to thank Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.

This thriller, which posits the question, how well can you really know your spouse, has some fun twists and turns that kept me turning pages. However, the final twist(s) fell flat for me. I was hoping for something either more realistic or more flamboyant, and instead I got something in the middle that just didn't work well for me.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. I thought the book started out great and suspenseful. Somewhere before the middle of the book the reader learns of a character that I believe should have been introduced earlier. Maybe this gives the book more interest. I thought the book was scattered and disjointed. There were too many subplots going on that took away from the main plot. Then finding out what happened did not get discovered until then epilogue was way too far in the book.

I think my students will enjoy this romantic suspense book, multiple timelines , multiple twists and stories of romantic relationship and complicated family dynamics and expectations of what women are supposed to be and how to live. Easy read, which they always like as well

I ended up liking this book but it took awhile for me to get into, two women, two different timelines related stories about the death of one of their sons and one's husband. The first part of the book was a lot about the relationships and wine making and less about the mystery. It also had an old fashioned feel to it, both the writing and the names of the women. I did get involved and invested in the mystery and also the personal growth/coming into themselves of the women. It was different than I expected and different than her previous books

Wow! This journey I just went on was WILD! June is our main character who is engulfed by grief and she goes on a quest to find out once and for all if her husband’s death was an accident or a murder. We don’t find out until the very end. I was beginning to give up hope of finding out a true answer, which can speak to our human tendencies, but our author did not disappoint. She gave me everything I needed and more! So happy to have read this story and got to meet June and Bev! They are both so lovely, even through the rough patches in their lives.

4/5 stars for a mind-boggling quest, friendship, love, and family(!!!)

**Thank you to NetGalley for providing a free review copy! I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was a new author for me and the book different from what i am normally drawnto
That said i totally enjoyed this story. Interesting story, great characters and i will definitely read this author again

This started off promising to be like two books I really liked: One True Loves (husband disappears, then returns years later when widow is engaged) and The Last Thing He Told Me (wine-country-based thriller about whether you can trust your husband). It took it's own spin on those plots and, in the end, I'd say it's mostly about a mother, Bev, not the woman who married her son, June. It's a domestic drama about brothers and parents and whether you can raise good men. What's frustrating is that it leaves the answer open-ended. What happened to Michelle? Is Andrew telling the truth about the picture of Abby? I'm an answer-driven reader and it felt like breaking the rules of a thriller to not tell me.

There is a wild twist at the end, which I appreciated. I'm a fan of authors really going for it and surprising me. I enjoyed this book for the most part and stayed interested in what was happening the whole way through. If anything, I wish there were more of it so I could get more answers.

This talented author has written a page turner. Family and friends. Romance and marriage...or not...secrets...the realistic characters moved the story quickly most of the times. There were pages when the descriptions became somewhat lengthy...the story...that being said, this is a keeper. I did wonder what would happen if her first husband was alive. That is always a question in stories like this one. Thanks Netgalley.

I loved this book. It kept me hooked and I didn't figure out the twists which is abnormal for me. My only complaint is that the very last twist was kind of annoying to me but it didn't take away from how great the rest of the book was and how hooked I was. Definitely motivated me to read the author's other books. Thank you for the ARC

I was a bit torn about this one. It had different point of views but not only that but in different time periods which got confusing for me.
This is the first book by this author for me. I’d be interested in reading others.

This book was so good I flew through it in one day! This was a story of suspense, and family. I loved the alternating POV’s. There was June’s POV who lost her husband 10 years ago, and Josh’s mom’s POV which was wrote from her POV when Josh, June’s husband, was a teenager.

This was a very character driven book with very deep characters. I really felt invested in each one’s story. The story itself was flawless. There were twists throughout the book that caught me off guard and an ending that I appreciated. This story was everything you want in a book about a mystery as well as contemporary fiction.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC!

3.5 stars-
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The plot sounded like an interesting one with a little bit of mystery to it. As I am diving in, I’m rather intrigued by the disappearance and death of someone one week after their marriage.

The plot takes us back and forth between timelines and it gets to be interesting with the different characters and the mystery surrounding her husband. The main character has somewhat recovered from her husband’s death, but his death always remains on the back of her mind as to what truly happened.

The author leads us into many twists and turns in the story having to do with his death. June has never gotten over him. Plus, the main character and other subsequent characters really don’t get my buy-in.

The characters are not likable with the exception of her fiancé. I don’t like June’s actions and I definitely did not care for the mother-in-law. Flynn does throw in some girl-on-girl time but that felt like a distraction and really didn’t add to the storyline other than try to show a psychological twist.

Flynn does add some interesting turns at the end that are from left field but I felt these twists really just leave the reader sad. The story is different and interesting, but it doesn’t have that additional layer of tension to make this a true suspense-type read.

Overall, it feels like I did not care for the book, however, I did like the premise of the story. I can not get past some of the character flaws. Till Death Do Us Part is a good story on the surface. It lacks that in-depth tension and elevated emotional writing that builds the mystery and suspense which makes a book un-put-downable.

It’s been ten years since June’s husband drowned on their honeymoon although his body was never found. Since then, she’s opened a wine bar and is newly engaged. One day while taking engagement photos, she thinks she sees Josh (dead ex husband who drown) but that can’t be! She begins to research and then she stumbles across a photo of a winery’s owner who looks just like her dead husband, say what?

The narrative unfolds through alternating timelines and perspectives, immersing you in the intense emotions of June and providing a glimpse into the past through Josh's mother, Bev. The anxiety surrounding Josh's mysterious reappearance creates a sense of urgency that propels the story forward. This book is not necessarily a thriller, more of a domestic drama with suspicious death maybe. I will say this is a slow burn and at times I was getting lost in why June was struggling so much with accepting the death of her husband, a man she knew 10 years ago for six months. A lot of the characters actions were a little unbelievable and while the twist at the end definitely surprised me in a bad way.
Despite its potential, the story grapples with too many twists and insufficient groundwork. To fully immerse yourself in the plot, you'll need to suspend ALL disbelief and embrace the unexpected turns that come your way. It wasn’t for me but maybe it will be for you! Coming off an excellent last novel of “The Girls are all so nice here” this one was just not up to par with Flynn’s abilities!
Thank you to. #NetGalley and #Simon&Schuster for giving me the opportunity to give my honest review with an advanced digital copy.

Wow. Just wow. After a slow start, Till Death Do Us Part picks up enough steam to power a fleet of ships. What starts out as a "what happened to Josh?" mystery morphs into a multi layered thriller with a previous untimely death, family drama, and tons of dysfunction. In truth, Miss Flynn should have saved some of these twists for future works-Josh's mom Bev definitely deserves her own novel! With multiple timelines and POV's, and the Napa Valley wine country as a backdrop, Till Death Do Us Part is very engaging as you try to put the pieces of this puzzle together. And the ending of Till Death to Us Part doesn't just come out of left field, it's not even in the same park, but has several unanswered questions that leave you hanging. Despite the incomplete closure Till Death to Us Park is one heck of a ride.

3.75 stars for me. This includes spoilers into the second paragraph so beware. To be honest, the beginning of this book was super slow for me. I felt even up to the 65% mark it took forever to give any substance to the theories being thrown around. June has been in constant grieving and confusion after her 6 month boyfriend turned one week husband went missing at sea when he was supposed to be getting breakfast from their airbnb. As she moves past his sudden and tragic disappearance during their honeymoon, she meets Kyle. He understands her and her grief listening to her and moving their relationship on her terms. After 6 years together, 10 years almost to the day she became a widow, she says yes to marrying Kyle and during their engagement photos taken by her best friend, she sees Josh, her dead husband. But that can’t be, it just can’t… but can it?


It can’t of course, because he’s dead but his body was never found. Turns out Josh was hiding a lot more than he let on to believe. He had an estranged twin brother. During their late teenage years they had a falling out and andrew was accused of leaking a photo for josh’s girlfriend to the school (which he didn’t) and because of it was sent off to boarding school. They had hardly spoken since they were 17 years old. Fast forward a bit and Andrew’s home on break and wanted revenge, That revenge was unspeakable for the brothers. This time, Andrew’s time home ended with Josh’s new girlfriend tragically drowning in their family estates pond after a party.

As this is happening, Bev, their mother is fighting her own demons. Her husbands cheated on her with someone she thought she didn’t know. Bev’s first true love re-emerges and they start a fling, partly because she’s so mad and confused and hurt by her husband but also she’s dreamed of meeting Emilia again since college. Turns out her husbands affair wasn’t with a one time stranger but someone whom she knew, and much longer than a one night stand. Lost in these family secrets and untold truths Bev spirals and leans on the one person who would never abandon her, her sister Camille… who ends up also being her twin which is important because they end up swapping places so Bev can be with her love- selfishly switching lives with her sister, allowing her to take over raising her toddler boy and pretending to be Josh and Andrew’s mother from there on out. How did no one notice? the brothers didn’t bring up the last stories camille wasn’t there for? David who had been with Bev for the better part of their lives didn’t realize a difference? So crazy to me.
But also halfway makes sense with how “Bev” (but actually Camille) was towards June when she’d ask too many questions, it’s because camille didn’t know the answers as her sister lived through that part of parenthood and hard times and camille was just in the background not having the full story of what actually happened when josh was in school.
And the plot twist of who actually murdered Josh at the end. This story is full of the ultimate dysfunctional family to date.