Secrets in suburbia, from bullying and bedroom games to affairs and murder; this page-turning domestic drama is a gripping read.
Harriet Osman is beautiful and successful, with a loving husband and teenage daughter and lots of friends. So why is she dying alone, blood seeping from her head, with no-one looking for her?
As she starts to slip away, Harriet tries to work out who could have wanted to murder her. Is it her husband, Malek, a former semi-professional rugby player, who, while devoted, has a violent past and is subject to panic attacks? Is it her best friend, Victoria, whose deadly secret she keeps and is more than a friend? What about fellow school mum Karen? Their daughters are friends but is Karen aware her daughter may be leading Harriet’s astray?
In the lead up to her death, Harriet has organised her own ‘surprise’ 40th birthday party. As the day unfolds, with relentless rain putting a dampener on things, we follow Harriet, Malek, Victoria and Karen and uncover their dark secrets. The real question isn’t who killed Harriet but why it’s taken so long for someone’s patience to snap. Every Last Suspect is highly recommended.
Reviewed by Melinda Woledge
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nicola lives in Sydney’s north west with her husband and two small (but remarkably strong willed) daughters. In between various career changes, becoming a mum and studying at Macquarie University, she began to write. Now, she can’t seem to stop.
Her first two novels, Free-Falling and Paper Chains were published in 2012 and 2013.
In 2017, Nicola released her third novel, The Fifth Letter. Nicola’s fourth novel, Those Other Women was released in Australia, the US and the UK in 2018.
She has four older sisters and one older brother and she lives in constant fear of being directly compared to her two wildly successful and extraordinarily talented author sisters, Liane Moriarty and Jaclyn Moriarty.
Other things of note are Nicola’s lack of fine motor skills, demonstrated by her inability to thread keys onto key-rings, tie balloons, braid hair and apply eyeliner.
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