Happy Release Day!
Congrats Adele
on the release today of
Woman Last Seen!
Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks
Mystery Thriller, 400 pages
Published February 1, 2022 by MIRA
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks returns with her most provocative, compelling book to date.
Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmom to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband, Mark, says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She went to work and just never came home. Their family is shattered.
Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman Daan and vanishes the same week. Kai left their luxurious penthouse and glamorous world without a backward glance. She seemingly evaporated into thin air. Daan is distraught.
Detective Clements knows that people disappear all the time—far too frequently. Most run away from things, some run toward and others are taken but find their way back. A sad few never return. These two women are from very different worlds. Their disappearances are unlikely to be connected. And yet, at a gut level, the detective believes they might be.
How could these women walk away from their families, husbands and homes willingly? Clements is determined to unearth the truth, no matter how shocking and devastating it may be.
My thoughts about Woman Last Seen ~~
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)
First lines—"Tuesday 17th March: I am engulfed in emptiness. I am not in my bed. In the instant my eyes flutter open I know there is something wrong. Seriously wrong."
Whew! What a beginning. It totally did what the author intended. It sucked me in and made me want more.
I can't say a whole lot because I don't want to give away the twists to the story but rest assured, when you start this one, you are not going to want to stop. So messed up. And brilliant!
You will definitely want to add Woman Last Seen to your reading list. It's probably going to be ranked up there as one of my favorite (i.e. mind-blown) thrillers of all time.
I received a copy of Woman Last Seen via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
About the author
Adele Parks was born in Teesside, NE England. She studied English Language and Literature, at Leicester University. She published her first novel, Playing Away, in 2000; that year the Evening Standard identified Adele as one of London’s ‘Twenty Faces to Watch.’ Indeed Playing Away was the debut bestseller of 2000.
Prolific, Adele has published nine novels in nine years, including Game Over, Tell Me Something and Love Lies, all nine of her novels have been bestsellers. She’s sold over a million copies of her work in the UK but also sells throughout the world. Two of her novels (Husbands and Still Thinking of You) are currently being developed as movie scripts. Young Wives’ Tales was short listed for the Romantic Novelist Association Award 2008. She has written numerous articles and short stories for many magazines and newspapers and often appears on radio and TV talking about her work.
Since 2006 Adele has been an official spokeswoman for World Book Day and wrote a Quick Read, Happy Families as part of the celebrations of World Book Day, 2008.
Adele has spent her adult life in Italy, Botswana and London, up until two years ago when she moved to Guildford, where she now lives with her husband and son. ~ Goodreads
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