Leigh Fletcher is married to Mark and has two children Seb and Oli. She disappears in the same week as Kai Janssen. Do the two cases connect? DC Clements investigates. Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks was a little different to a lot of missing person novels by letting the reader have a point of view from the missing woman which gave a tense edge to the story. The novel also has a few twists and turns to make it stand out and keep a reader on the edge as the story unfolds. The ending was a tad over the top but quite honestly I completely enjoyed that it was and it felt to me like the perfect fit for an unusual missing person case. Definitely an author to watch out for in the future. 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. 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.

Adele Parks is the biz at writing stories, words reach and grab you and it all flows so brilliantly, so when it is not the best plot/probably even implausible you can forgive it as the writing keeps you fixed, without consideration of giving it up

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But I will say again the use of words, her ability to weave them together and talk to you and entice you with her writing prowess make all the minuses of this book acceptable and it it still for me Alison has nothing to complain about. Her life is charmed. Her home is a happy place, made so by her husband Jeff and their brilliant daughter Katherine. Alison’s life revolves around Katherine. People took notice immediately. Some publications even set her apart as one of a few dozen faces to watch in the coming decade. And Adele Parks did not disappoint them, proceeding to sell millions of copies of her books and having many professionals in the industry describe her as one of the most beloved authors of women’s fiction in the United Kingdom. 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. Woman Last Seen follows the disappearances of Kai Janssen and Leigh Fletcher. Kai has been married to Daan a wealthy businessman for a few years and they have no kids. It is not uncommon for them to be away from each other for multiple days each week what with his demanding job and Kai visiting/tending to her ill mother. Leigh and Mark have been married for ten years and she is the stepmother to his two sons from a previous marriage. Both women are reported missing by their husbands around the same time and DC Celements is called in to investigate both cases. Do these women know one another? Both are keeping secrets, could their disappearances be related? Were the husbands involved?

I’ve only read one other book by Ms. Parks but found it very enjoyable, so I jumped at the chance to read this one. The cover is absolutely beautiful and grabbed my attention the first time I saw it. This domestic thriller has some awesome twists. Some I saw coming, but others were a complete surprise! I highly recommend it! 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. Both wives are from two very different worlds. Both husbands did not immediately report their wives missing. Lucy isn’t happy. She was the perfect wife and mother. But Rose was the perfect mistress and she had the capacity to keep Peter happy in ways that escaped Lucy’s grasp. DC Clements is in charge of an investigation that has no shortage of red herrings and compelling twists and turns.Same week, different world … Kai Janssen leaves her sexy, wealthy husband and their luxurious penthouse, and vanishes into thin air. 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. Leigh married a widower with two small boys. She happily steps into the role of stepmother and falls in love with the children. They struggle like most families, but Leigh loves being a wife and mother. The characters are in the main irritating, again can’t say why as will give it away, I guessed the ‘baddy’ early on so no surprises there and once they are unearthed the book ends, abruptly

Alison doesn’t want to believe him but the evidence begins to corroborate his story. If that wasn’t bad enough, the man tells Allison that his wife died of cancer and that Katherine might have inherited it. Adele Parks’ new book Woman Last Seen is fast paced with an intriguingly different plot and incredible twists. Both of You is quite a hard novel to review without giving too much away, but I'll do my best ... I'm a little of practice now. 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.

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And when her boys begin to need her less, it becomes clear to Rose that Lucy’s life is devoid of real purpose or passion. During her career Adele has lived in Italy, Botswana and London. Now she lives happily in Surrey, UK with her husband, son and cat. 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 Both of You investigates the disappearance of two women in the same week. Leigh Fletcher is a married woman with an average life but a demanding job. She’s step-mum to two teenage boys that she dotes on. She has more than an awkward relationship with her mother, there is a toxicity pulsing off her and you wonder just how Leigh copes with her comments and demands. We see just how her relationship with her husband Mark begins, the instant attraction, the love felt for the boys. It’s how I imagine a lot of marriages are… but what’s that I can see, a creeping shadow that isn’t quite revealing itself.

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 😎 Kai marries a handsome and very wealthy businessman. Neither wants children. She lives a glamorous life…filled with entertaining and other meaningless tasks. 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. But how could they be connected? Both women live in totally different areas. As the police begin to investigate, they start to think perhaps someone may have wanted to hurt the women. Why? Yes, as the saying goes if a wife goes missing, the husband is always the prime suspect, but in this case, they are the ones who called saying they were missing.After pretending to "rescue" her from the room she was imprisoned in, Fiona brings Kaileigh to her beach house, gets her drunk and then shoves her off a cliff. Although that was a bit harsh, I didn't really care, because Kaileigh was a selfish twat who caused a lot of damage. Also it is unusual for the main character to die so I thought that was interesting. But after that there is just this abrupt end with a few lines about how Fiona had set Daan up to take the fall for Kaileigh's murder and plans to step into her shoes as Mrs. Mark. Smart and thought-provoking with an absolutely brilliant mid-point twist' T.M. Logan, bestselling author of Trust Me 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. 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