One Last Secret: From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of Both Of You comes a gripping psychological crime thriller

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This is told mostly from the first person account of Dora/Teodora, who is a high end escort/sex worker. I didn’t know what to expect at any given point, and (as I mentioned) the twists were just believable enough to be entertaining. However, money is the driving force and Dora shows she is not embarrassed by what she does: she is embarrassed because she does not know what she would do instead with her life. Long flashback about Dora having a child at 19, how hard that was, and how it was the reason she became an escort. not to mention Dora’s naiveté in accepting the job and then acquiescing when things got a bit weird in France.

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The guy who beat her up is an employee of her daughter’s father who has brought her out there to be murdered by that employee. It’s meant to be a luxurious, decadent retreat for couples – and since Daniel has been lying to everyone that he has a significant other, he’s been invited to attend. I thought I was reading angsty, erotic romance at first, but Dora was so lovable to hang out and I didn’t care not much happened after 60 pages. Told in the first person, primarily from Dora’s perspective, the story is engaging and evocative throughout. She begins to have memory lapses, she hears conversations that she questions and is sure that one of the men is the one that assaulted her.

My only reservations all the sudden backtracking to 11 years ago as well as a narrator change and although it does eventually make sense it seems to break up the flow of the storytelling. I felt such empathy for Teodora, despite her career and her choices, so I was genuinely rooting for her the entire book.

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Adele has written 19 contemporary novels and 2 historical ones, Spare Brides and If You Go Away, which are set during and after WW1. But when Dora arrives at the chateau, nothing is what it seems and she finds herself face to face with a man she has never forgotten, the one man who really knows her. It is understandable that she grows a thick skin and that when everything is lost, a deep sense of revenge takes over. King uses the phrase keeping it on the down-low in a way that suggests he probably doesn’t understand how this phrase is currently used—and has been used for quite a while. The author carefully chooses when to reveal another piece of Dora’s puzzle so that it coincides with what is occurring in the present narrative.A woman who doesn’t know how to communicate with her and that believes the best option is to separate the child from her daughter taking her to a country where she can’t even speak the language. She didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming an escort but it has become her way of paying the bills and it’s a job she does well and professionally. One Last Secret by Adele Parks is engaging and twisty, this psychological thriller will hold your attention that’s for sure! At a luxurious but secluded French estate, with a missing cellphone, too much alcohol, and a brain that starts playing tricks on her, Dora suddenly fears for her safety.

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It should an easy piece of role-play for the experienced Dora, but one of the guests is known to her and he poses a danger more deadly than she could ever have imagined.There is some disturbing subject matter in the story, including physical assault and rape so if those are triggers for you, you may want to bypass this book. The story is told from her POV, and we also get some of her past which made her situation more understandable. At the age of 31, Dora earns enough to indulge in high-end beauty treatments to help her look like ‘the angel’ that she knows she certainly isn’t.

One Last Secret by Adele Parks (Review by Kelly Glecoff) One Last Secret by Adele Parks (Review by Kelly Glecoff)

One last client A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France—it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. Her latest novels, Both of You, Just My Luck, Lies Lies Lies, I Invited Her In, The Image of You and The Stranger in My Home are twisty, domestic noirs.I think it’s an honest one – and a respectful one – but the ABCs of sex work do not an exciting thriller make. First of all, I really like Dora she seems very likable and honest though since she’s our principal narrator caution may be advised!