Really enjoyed this! Kept me guessing and had me gasping at the twist' Ian Rankin, No. 1 bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times 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 I do like it when a mystery surprises me, and WOMAN LAST SEEN by Adele Parks did that, although not in a manner I would have expected.

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. 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 the women are so unalike, Detective Clements can’t seem to stop thinking the two cases are somehow connected.Adele attributes her considerable visibility to her chatty persona. She is also fairly opinionated. As such, while many of her peers in the publishing arena would rather disappear behind a computer, Adele is out in public making her voice heard. 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. Leigh is married to Mark and a stepmother to Mark's sons. Leigh left for work one morning and never returned home.

When Adele isn’t creating fiction, she can be found contributing articles and short stories to magazines and newspapers. She can also be found on radio and television programs where she talks about her books and the issues that matter to her. DC Clements is in charge of an investigation that has no shortage of red herrings and compelling twists and turns. 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.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. And that, my friends are all the clues I am going to give you! You will just have to read the book for all the jaw-dropping, astounding turns the story takes!

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. I really liked the setup of this new novel from Adele Parks. The disappearance of two happily married women, who both vanish without a trace offered a great opening hook. I enjoyed being teased and pulled in different directions as I developed my own theories around these two seemingly unrelated cases. Through this multiple perspective narrative, we glean more about the choices made by the both missing women, along with the dogged detective assigned to the case. This provides an essential overview and balanced perspective range, which in turn assists this complicated story. I really enjoyed swapping between the different viewpoints and heads of the three key cast members. I think Parks did an excellent job of inhabiting the voices of each of her key leads, along with the support cast. Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply went to work and just never came home. Their family is shattered.Lucy wanted her happily ever after but now she’s starting to believe that there might be no such thing.