What Remains of You by Kimberly Hensle Lowrance

Details

• Book Title: What Remains of You
• Author: Kimberly Hensle Lowrance
• Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Description

What Remains of You is a domestic psychological thriller by debut novelist Kimberly Hensle Lowrance. Eighteen months after losing her husband Tom, Diana Morgan is still finding her footing as a grieving widow and a steady mother to their two children — until she uncovers a letter Tom left for her eyes only. Instead of a parting note of love, it reads as a cryptic confession to a crime he never names, along with a chilling warning: there are others who know, and she must not let them in. As doubt creeps into every memory of her marriage, Diana travels to Tom’s small Vermont hometown, certain the answers are buried there. What she finds forces her to ask whether the truth about the man she loved will finally bring her peace — or take apart the life she has left.

Author Bio

Kimberly Hensle Lowrance makes her fiction debut with What Remains of You. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Embark Literary Journal, and Mothers Always Write, as well as in two anthologies. She was a producer and on-air host for A Mighty Blaze, an online literary platform co-founded by authors Caroline Leavitt and Jenna Blum, and co-hosted Authors Love Bookstores, interviewing booksellers and writers including Judy Blume, Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Susan Orlean. A graduate of Boston University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she lives in Massachusetts with her family and their rescue dog.

What Readers Are Saying

• “Loved it! Nicely paced plot with twists and turns along the way. The characters are well developed and even those who are more incidental feel like properly formed characters. There is enough intrigue to keep you guessing and to want to keep reading. A very well written novel. Looking forward to reading more from this author!” — Mrs C, five-star Amazon reviewer
• “I enjoyed this book. The story unfolded with expected and unexpected twists. I liked how Tom’s ‘character’ in death grew and morphed into something altogether human, flawed but worthy of love. Getting to know her husband forced Diana to see herself clearly and ultimately led to her growth too.” — S. Miller, five-star Amazon reviewer
• “This book grabs you from the first page. I could not put it down. It’s about the terrible secrets we keep and the chaos they inevitably cause. Are any of us who we portray ourselves to be?” — Elizabeth J., five-star Amazon reviewer
• “The story line started out as boring to me but turned out to have a fantastic twist. At first I thought I would skip the book and start another but I soon was hooked and couldn’t put it down. Halfway through, I stayed up one night and read to the end, finishing about 5am.” — Kindle Customer, five-star Amazon reviewer
• “Page turner about a dead husband with never ending secrets. All his friends and family didn’t really know him. It is almost like this was a true story.” — buyer, five-star Amazon reviewer
• Holds a 4.1-star average across more than 3,600 Amazon ratings.

Why We Think It Should Be Your Next Book

If you love a thriller that works on the heart as much as the nerves, What Remains of You belongs at the top of your stack. Kimberly Hensle Lowrance takes the most intimate kind of trust — a marriage — and lets it come undone one revelation at a time, so the suspense feels less like a puzzle and more like grief turning into something far more dangerous. Readers keep describing the same experience: a slow, deliberate opening that suddenly has them turning pages until dawn. For a debut, it is remarkably assured, and it will leave you wondering how well any of us truly know the people we love.

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Sources: Amazon product page and customer reviews for “What Remains of You” by Kimberly Hensle Lowrance.