Roz Nay. (2018). Our Little Secret: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Roz Nay. 2018. Our Little Secret: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Roz Nay, Our Little Secret: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018.

Roz Nay. Our Little Secret: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018.

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   • bioText: 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.
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THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL YOU CAN'T MISS...

"A cracking read...Our Little Secret builds to a deliciously dark conclusion." —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10
Roz Nay's Our Little Secret is a twisted tale of love, pain, and revenge that will stay with the reader long after they turn the last page.
They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that sometimes your first love won't forget you...
Angela Petitjean sits in a cold, dull room. The police have been interrogating her for hours, asking about Saskia Parker. She's the wife of Angela's high school sweetheart, HP, and the mother of his child. She has vanished. Homicide Detective J. Novak believes Angela knows what happened to Saskia. He wants the truth, and he wants it now.
But Angela has a different story to tell. It began more than a decade ago when she and HP met in high school in Cove, Vermont. She was an awkward, shy teenager. He was a popular athlete. They became friends, fell in love, and dated senior year. Everything changed when Angela went to college. When time and distance separated them. When Saskia entered the picture.
That was eight years ago. HP foolishly married a drama queen and Angela moved on with her life. Whatever marital rift caused Saskia to leave her husband has nothing to do with Angela. Nothing at all. Detective Novak needs to stop asking questions and listen to what Angela is telling him. And once he understands everything, he'll have the truth he so desperately wants...

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   • source: Entertainment Weekly
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     "Nay's engrossing read is told from multiple perspectives, and from its chillingly mysterious opening to the subtle brilliance with which a revengeful saga unfolds, its steamy love triangle will hook you and never let you go. It's a debut thriller that's just delicious."

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   • source: Associated Press
   • content: "Remarkable. Our Little Secret superficially resembles Paula Hawkins' The Girl on a Train and similar psychological thrillers that have stormed the best-seller lists in the last decade. But Nay's work transcends the subgenre. The plot is more textured and heartbreaking, and her prose contains startling turns of phrase that reveal the soul of a poet."
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   • source: Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl
   • content: "Nay lures readers down a dark and tangled path that explores the aftereffects of lost first loves...a gripping addition to the psych thriller world."
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   • source: B.A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors and The Breakdown
   • content: "A gripping and disturbing story, which left me guessing until the very end."
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   • source: Chevy Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing and Never Let You Go
   • content: "Clever and addictive, Our Little Secret won't stay a secret for long--it's that good."
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   • source: Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10
   • content: "A cracking read...Our Little Secret builds to a deliciously dark conclusion."
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     February 15, 2018
     First love goes bad in Nay's mesmerizing debut.Cove, Vermont, is a tidy town, and 15-year-old Angela Petitjean felt very out of place when she moved there 11 years ago with her well-meaning but cloying parents. Then she met Hamish "HP" Parker. HP looked like a young Harrison Ford and lit up every room he walked into, whereas Angela was quiet and thoughtful. They became the best of friends and stayed that way until a graduation trip to the lake, when they realized they were in love. When an unwilling Angela's parents make her go abroad for freshman year at Oxford, HP goes over to visit her, but Angela becomes incensed when she spots him flirting at a ball with Saskia, a very petite, very Australian blonde. After Angela gets caught in a bit of revenge canoodling with her hapless, and smitten, friend Freddy Montgomery, HP goes back to the U.S. in a snit with Saskia in tow and, to Angela's horror, eventually marries her. Angela puts on a brave face and even says yes when asked to be godmother to their new baby. After Angela's parents get divorced, HP invites Angela to move in with them instead of living with her mother--an ill-advised arrangement, to be sure. Things inevitably come to a head (boy do they!), and Angela moves out. Now, Saskia is missing. Homicide Detective J. Novak is convinced Saskia is dead and that Angela is responsible, but they don't have a body. Is Angela a murderer or just a woman with a broken heart who never quite picked up the pieces? Angela's voice is wry and compelling, revealing a girl who never quite lived up to her parents' expectations and a young woman who felt incomplete without HP and has never quite been able to let go.Nay expertly spins an insidious, clever web, perfectly capturing the soaring heights and crushing lows of first love and how the loss of that love can make even the sanest people a little crazy. Carve out some time for this riveting, one-sitting read.

     COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     February 19, 2018
     How does Angela Petitjean, the narrator of Nay’s captivating if contrived debut, go from being the pride of Cove, Vt., with a place waiting at Oxford University, to just eight years later a person of interest being grilled by police in her hometown about the disappearance of Saskia Parker, a vivacious young wife and mother? That’s the twisty tale that emerges, gradually, over the course of Angela’s marathon interrogation. Warming despite herself to the undivided attention of Det. J. Novak, the normally private Angela slowly embraces the opportunity to open up about her one great love—with high school golden boy and, as she sees it, soulmate, Hamish Parker, before a brash Australian force of nature named Saskia entered the picture. Though Nay’s inexperience shows in the stagy set-up, which amounts to almost an extended monologue, and a couple of key players who don’t rise above caricature—like Freddy Montgomery, the hopeless smitten and conveniently rich Oxford swain—it’s an arresting, perhaps unbelievable story that Angela spins. Nay is a writer to watch. Agent: Carolyn Forde, Westwood Creative Artists.

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     Starred review from February 15, 2018
     Angela Petitjean realizes that she's a suspect in the disappearance of her first love's wife, Saskia Parker, during a prolonged interrogation by Detective J. Novak. In response to Novak's prods, Angela agrees to tell him everything she knows about both the victim, HP, and his wife, but only on her own terms. Taking the story back 15 years, Angela slowly reveals her romance with HP, which began during their senior year of high school; the betrayals that tore her and HP apart; and the recent months during which she had lived with HP and Saskia in the couple's lakeside cottage. Saskia, Angela asserts, is a cunning liar and manipulator who's probably left HP behind without a backward glance. But Novak isn't buying Angela's story, challenging her version of events until THE narrative evolves into a clever psychological duel. Is Angela a calculating killer or a pitiable woman scorned who is being framed by her rival? A sneaky-smart, charismatic debut that will win fans among those who enjoy the kind of duplicitous and deliciously complex psychological suspense written by Ruth Ware, Sophie Hannah, and Erin Kelly.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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      Starred review from February 1, 2018
      

      When this first novel opens, narrator Angela is being questioned in a police interrogation room by a detective about the whereabouts of the missing wife of her ex-boyfriend. She recalls her move in high school to a Vermont small town where she befriends HP, a popular athlete. Friendship turns to romance, but a chance to attend a year of school in England forces Angela to put their budding relationship on hold. HP's surprise trip to visit Angela in England results in fateful encounter with an attractive student named Saskia. The love triangle that develops follows the trio back to Vermont. Relationships evolve and true feelings reveal themselves, demonstrating that those who we think we know are not always who they seem to be. VERDICT Fans of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware will devour this twisty psychological thriller; Nay has expertly crafted a narrative that has the potential to veer in several directions, keeping readers enthralled and guessing until the end.--David Miller, Farmville P.L., NC

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"A cracking read...Our Little Secret builds to a deliciously dark conclusion." —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10
Roz Nay's Our Little Secret is a twisted tale of love, pain, and revenge that will stay with the reader long after they turn the last page.
They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that sometimes your first love won't forget you...
Angela Petitjean sits in a cold, dull room. The police have been interrogating her for hours, asking about Saskia Parker. She's the wife of Angela's high school sweetheart, HP, and the mother of his child. She has vanished. Homicide Detective J. Novak believes Angela knows what happened to Saskia. He wants the truth, and he wants it now.
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