Both of You: The stunning psychological domestic crime thriller from the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of Just Between Us

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First off this is impossible to say anything much about without giving it away ( I think ) so I wont be doing or even hinting at it what the book is about 😎 Adele Parks takes readers into the lives of both families as they try to reconcile the fact that Katherine and Olivia grew up in the wrong homes and must now determine how they will proceed as a family.

Leigh is married to Mark and a stepmother to Mark's sons. Leigh left for work one morning and never returned home.It's a whole elaborate hullabloo (and frankly not believable) how she has managed to pull off this double life for several years, but the upshot is that her deception is discovered. She finds herself chained to a radiator in an empty room being starved, beaten, and tormented by typewritten notes slipped under the door calling her out for her duplicitous life. Which one of her husbands is doing this to her?

As such, she is less than enthused when someone comes to her door and tells her that the teenage girl she raised isn’t hers. Fifteen years ago, Allison’s baby was taken from the hospital by someone else. Same week, different world … Kai Janssen leaves her sexy, wealthy husband and their luxurious penthouse, and vanishes into thin air. Set as the Pandemic is starting I did like how it was just referenced and had no bearing on the story but was there, just as part of the life the characters are living, like we all have been doing Well, turns out, it's neither one. It's her best friend Fiona, who goes full psycho after realizing that Kaileigh has managed to snag two wonderful husbands while Fiona routinely finds herself used and dumped by unavailable and/or married men. One of the married men just happened to be Daan. During her career Adele has lived in Italy, Botswana and London. Now she lives happily in Surrey, UK with her husband, son and cat.With her university days behind her, she eventually went into advertising and then management consultation. But writing was never far from her thoughts. And she eventually achieved her dreams of becoming a published author in 2000 when her first novel, Playing Away, hit the bookshelves. However, Adele Parks takes offense with the idea that the term can be used broadly to describe all literary works written by women about women. Adele contends that women are very complex human beings and any book that aims to explore their lives, loves, and friendships should be treated with some respect.

This was my first Adele Parks books. I enjoyed reading it and will look out for more of her titles. There were some eye-roll inducing moments like grouping video games and fascism together as the same... ???? Also homegirl was in the wrong and it felt like the author was tryna do some extreme mental gymnastics to make this the patriarchy's fault even though it wasn't. And ya'll know I'm not out here rallying for men in books, but this wasn't the time to go for the jugular 😂 Everyone knows that in missing person cases it is usually the partner involved, so DC Clements' suspicions naturally lie there. She isn't sure that the cases are connected, but they are very close in time, even if the women seemingly have nothing else in common. Detective Clements is assigned to the case when Mark turns Leigh in as a missing person. Detective Clements thinks that there may be nothing and the wife has simply taken a break until Detective Clements gets another case assigned to her too. A wealthy businessman has also reported his wife, Kai Janssen, missing and the two cases seem to be very tightly tied together. Adele Parks MBE is one of the most-loved and biggest-selling women's fiction writers in the UK. She has sold over 4 million books and her work has been translated into 30 different languages.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. DC Clements interviews the husbands that reported their wives missing. She’s suspicious of both husbands’ involvements. Is the narrative that its always the husband true? What clues are left behind? Is there something that they aren’t telling her? Connect the dots and the truth will come home to roost.

Kai Jensen, devoted wife to Daan is reported missing by her seemingly distraught husband in the same week. She has simply vanished into thin air. Rose doesn’t think much of Lucy. The devoted single mother spends so much of her time and energy planning meals, sewing school uniforms and supervising extracurricular activities that she has no life of her own. This twisty thriller was engrossing and I was keen to see how the story would conclude. With a range of narrative perspectives, it was interesting to see how the disappearances and their investigations unfold. I've always loved Adele Parks's gripping, immersive novels and Both Of You is one of her very best. Ambitious, nail-biting, darkly voyeuristic - I tore through it in two sittings' Louise Candlish, bestselling author of The Other Passenger Overall, the author's character development was strong and the book's storyline was fast-paced and intriguing -- even though there was some repetitive text and the book's ending was abrupt.

I have to be a little vague now to avoid giving spoilers . . . It’s the fallout from information discovered during the police investigation that I found most interesting. I felt Parks did a terrific job with the family dynamics in this book. What behaviours do people take on to play their designated role (wife, husband, parent, child) in their family? Who is keeping secrets? Who is keeping confidences? How does this impact individuals and the family unit when a member of the family disappears? And how do you adjust to the knowledge that you might not know those closest to you as much as you thought? Parks’ astute observations certainly provided food for thought. Adele Parks’ new book Woman Last Seen is fast paced with an intriguingly different plot and incredible twists. Smart and thought-provoking with an absolutely brilliant mid-point twist' T.M. Logan, bestselling author of Trust Me Just as Police Detective Clements is called in to search for Leigh, although she believes Leigh either decided she needed a break from her family or wanted to upset her husband, the other call comes in about another missing woman, and that is Kai Janssen. Even though Kai Janssen is married to Daan, a wealthy Dutch businessman. Before Kai went missing, she lived in a luxurious penthouse and allegedly had a perfect life.