One Last Secret

An addictive must-read psychological crime thriller from the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of Both Of You!

'Absolutely gripping' Lisa Jewell

'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks' Lucy Foley

'Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying' Karin Slaughter

'Parks gets better and better' Gillian McAllister

'Original and utterly compelling' Peter James

Informationen zum Autor Adele Parks was born in Teesside, North East England. Her first novel, Playing Away , was published in 2000, and since then she's had seventeen international bestsellers, translated into twenty-six languages. She's been an ambassador for The Reading Agency and a judge for the Costa Book Awards, and is a keen supporter of The National Literary Trust. She's lived in Italy, Botswana and London and is now settled in Guildford, Surrey, with her husband, son and cat. Klappentext One Last Secret ... would you kill to keep it? 'Absolutely gripping' Lisa Jewell 'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks' Lucy Foley 'Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying' Karin Slaughter 'Parks gets better and better' Gillian McAllister 'Original and utterly compelling' Peter James Vorwort From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of Both Of You comes a gripping crime thriller Zusammenfassung One Last Secret would you kill to keep it? 'Absolutely gripping' Lisa Jewell 'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks' Lucy Foley 'Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying' Karin Slaughter 'Parks gets better and better' Gillian McAllister 'Original and utterly compelling' Peter James One last client A week at a beautiful French chateau should be an easy final job for Dora. She's smart, stunning and discreet. She only needs to convince the other guests that she's Daniel's girlfriend. One last chance One final, luxurious week and she can leave the dangerous, difficult escort world, because Dora has fallen in love and is ready to embrace a better future. One last secret But as the guests assemble, it becomes terrifyingly apparent that putting her past behind her is impossible. And one last secret could cost Dora everything, including her life From the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Adele Parks comes a blisteringly provocative novel about power, sex, money and revenge. Praise for One Last Secret : 'Absolutely gripping, this is revenge lit at its best' Lisa Jewell 'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time' Lucy Foley 'Perfection' Daily Mail 'A whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying twists and turns and powerful emotional undercurrents' Karin Slaughter 'An astonishing achievement, Parks gets better and better' Gillian McAllister 'A high-octane read' Prima 'Original and utterly compelling' Peter James 'Serves up the perfect dose of escapism laced with tension and darkness' Cosmopolitan 'Adele Parks is the queen of the domestic drama' Sally Hepworth 'Deliciously deceptive and darkly satisfying. I loved it' Jane Fallon 'Adele Parks goes fearlessly into worlds She pulls it off every time' Jane Corry 'Tense' Best '5* This dark, twisted tale gets better with every page' The Sun ''Perfect pacing a clever plot with several jaw-dropping twists and a protagonist you'll find yourself rooting for' My Weekly 'A sassy voice and in true Parks style a serpentine twist that comes back to bite you' Saga ...

Autorentext

Adele Parks MBE was born in North Yorkshire. She is the author of 24 bestselling novels including the Sunday Times bestsellers Just Between Us and One Last Secret. Over five million copies of her work have been sold in English and her books have been translated into 31 languages.

Adele's Sunday Times Number One bestsellers Lies Lies Liesand Just My Luckwere shortlisted for the British Book Awards. She also won two Nielsen Bestseller Awards, the RNA Outstanding Achievement Award, the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and a Quick Read Learners' Favourite Award.

Adele has written for many national newspapers and magazines, and was an Executive Producer on Paramount's feature film adaptation of her novel, The Image of You.

She is an ambassador of the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency: two charities that promote literacy in the UK.

In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.

Klappentext

One Last Secret ... would you kill to keep it?'Absolutely gripping' Lisa Jewell

'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks' Lucy Foley

'Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying' Karin Slaughter

'Parks gets better and better' Gillian McAllister

'Original and utterly compelling' Peter James

One last client

A week at a beautiful French chateau should be an easy final job for Dora. She's smart, stunning and discreet.

She only needs to convince the other guests that she's Daniel's girlfriend.

One last chance

One final, luxurious week and she can leave the dangerous, difficult escort world, because Dora has fallen in love and is ready to embrace a better future.

One last secret

But as the guests assemble, it becomes terrifyingly apparent that putting her past behind her is impossible. And one last secret could cost Dora everything, including her life...

From the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Adele Parks comes a blisteringly provocative novel about power, sex, money and revenge.

Praise for One Last Secret:

'Absolutely gripping, this is revenge lit at its best' Lisa Jewell

'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time' Lucy Foley

'Perfection' Daily Mail

'A whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying twists and turns and powerful emotional undercurrents' Karin Slaughter

'An astonishing achievement, Parks gets better and better' Gillian McAllister

'A high-octane read' Prima

'Original and utterly compelling' Peter James

'Serves up the perfect dose of escapism laced with tension and darkness' Cosmopolitan

'Adele Parks is the queen of the domestic drama' Sally Hepworth

'Deliciously deceptive and darkly satisfying. I loved it' Jane Fallon

'Adele Parks goes fearlessly into worlds... She pulls it off every time' Jane Corry

'Tense' Best

'5... This dark, twisted tale gets better with every page' **The Sun***

''Perfect pacing... a clever plot with several jaw-dropping twists and a protagonist you'll find yourself rooting for...' My Weekly

'A sassy voice and - in true Parks style - a serpentine twist that comes back to bite you' Saga

Zusammenfassung

Praise for One Last Secret:

'Absolutely gripping... revenge lit at its best. Provocative and compelling. I was left breathless at the final twist' Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared

'Perfection' Daily Mail

'I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time' Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

'Perfect pacing... a clever plot with several jaw-dropping twists and a protagonist you'll find yourself rooting for...' My Weekly

'Combining a whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying twists and turns and powerful emotional undercurrents, One Last Secret is a massively readable novel' Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

'A tense, twisted tale... will keep you gripped' Best

'An astonishing achievement, Parks gets better and better. The queen of the unpredictable thriller' Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

'A high-octane read about power, sex, money and revenge that you won't be able to put down' Prima

'Adele Parks is the queen of the domestic drama' Sally Hepworth, The Younger Wife

'A sassy voice and - in true Parks style - a serpentine twist that comes back to bite you' Saga

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