Our Little Secret
by Roz Nay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (April
17, 2018)
They
say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that
sometimes your first love won't forget you...
A
police interview room is the last place Angela expected to find herself today.
It's been hours, and they keep asking her the same inane questions over and
over. "How do you know the victim?" "What's your relationship
with Mr. Parker?" Her ex's wife has gone missing, and anyone who was close
to the couple is a suspect. Angela is tired of the bottomless questions and
tired of the cold room that stays the same while a rotating litany of
interrogators changes shifts around her. But when criminologist Novak takes
over, she can tell he's not like the others. He's ready to listen, and she
knows he'll understand. When she tells him that her story begins a decade
before, long before Saskia was in the picture, he gives her the floor.
A
twenty-something young professional, Angela claims to have no involvement. How
could she? It's been years since she and H.P., Mr. Parker that is, were
together. As her story unfolds, it deepens and darkens. There's a lot to
unpack... betrayal, jealousy, and a group of people who all have motives for
retribution. If Angela is telling the truth, then who's lying?
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Our Little Secret is Roz Nay’s debut
novel, entering a vast sea of some heavy hitters in the literary world, and I believe
she has a great start with this novel.
Ms. Nay
has written a solid thriller that kept me engaged from the beginning to the
end. In a cat and mice came between
Detective Novak and Angela who is ‘a person of interest’, small hints are
dropped, slowly unraveling a secret that is longing to be told. This story is so exceptionally enthralling that
I found myself immediately drawn into the web of lies and deceit wondering who
was telling the truth.
If you enjoyed
The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr then I
highly recommend Our Little Secret. Is it a tragic love story or a devastating game
of lies and manipulation? Read this
captivating thriller and find out for yourself!
4 stars
Roz Nay
grew up in England and studied at Oxford University. She has been published in
The Antigonish Review and the anthology Refuge. Roz has worked as an underwater
fish counter in Africa, a snowboard videographer in Vermont, and a high school
teacher in both the UK and Australia. She now lives in British Columbia,
Canada, with her husband and two children. Our Little Secret is her first
novel.
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