Adele Parks was born in Teesside, North East England. Her first novel,
Playing Away, was published in 2000, and since then she's written well over
a dozen international bestsellers, translated into twenty-six languages.
Parks's latest novel is
I Invited Her In.
At CrimeReads she tagged eight "favorite thrillers and domestic noir novels centered around female friendship gone sour," including:
Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ Despite that, the annual school Elvis and Audrey Hepburn fancy dress gala night ends 
with wailing police sirens and one parent dead. Tightly plotted, Moriarty rolls back the veneer of the seemingly perfect lives of the parents at the idyllic school and the readers are plunged into a pit of deceit, scandal and dangerous lies. However, as the quagmire of endless challenges are negotiated—teenage rebellion, blended families, single motherhood, affairs, domestic violence and rape—one thing shines through, a tremendously intense and supportive friendship between three women: Jane, Madeline and Celeste. I love this celebration of friendship. I’m not saying it all ends well, I’m just saying it’s a joy to be part of their community and, as reader, I was.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
Big Little Lies is among
Michelle Frances's eight top workplace thrillers and
Jeff Somers's ten novels that teach you something about marriage.
--Marshal Zeringue
a dozen international bestsellers, translated into twenty-six languages.
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