Review: Our Little Secret by Roz Nay

Our Little Secret by Roz Nay

Expected Publication: April 17, 2018

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Format: via publisher

Rating: 5/5

Synopsis

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?

My Thoughts

In Our Little Secret, the novel opens up with Angela being interviewed by the police about a murder. We know it has to do with a girl named Saskia and she is the wife of H.P. a friend of Angela’s. Next is the whole story as to whom Saskia is and how the story of Angela and H.P. unfolds.

We meet Angela who moves to a new school and who is quickly befriended by the popular H.P. they live down the street from one another and are instantly inseparable. Growing up there was a little sense of H.P and Angela and if they would ever hook up but not until their last year of high school do they finally reveal their feelings towards one another. Angela goes away for a semester abroad and when H.P. comes to visit this is the first time we met Saskia who was there at a party and where she totally flirts with H.P. H.P. flirts backs and this is where things go off the rails with Angela.

Through the years they lose touch but always seem to come back together even as friends so when Angela comes home she realizes H.P. and Saskia are together and soon they marry. Of course, she isn’t the biggest fan she misses her friend and still loves H.P. honestly. However, she is forced to accept them together and by then Saskia is pregnant or lose H.P. forever. She eventually wedges herself into their lives that is a bit unhealthy and soon Saskia is missing and no one knows where she is. This is where we see Angela at the police station being questioned about Saskia’s murder.

Now the question is did Angela truly do it or was it someone else? When she tells who she thinks did it, it is jaw dropping! But is she telling the truth or not? Is she being honest or is she just a psychopath who is way off her rocker? When the ending was revealed I had chills! Angela is one character that I won't soon forget and I know you won't either. This is one twist after twist of a suspenseful novel that is really smartly written that will have you captivated until the very end.