Four top novels with nuanced portrayals of sex workers

Adele Parks is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck, as well as I Invited Her. Just My Luck is currently in development to be made into a movie.

[The Page 69 Test: I Invited Her In; My Book, The Movie: I Invited Her In; Q&A with Adele Parks; The Page 69 Test: Lies, Lies, Lies; My Book, The Movie: Lies, Lies, Lies; My Book, The Movie: Just My Luck]

Parks's new novel is One Last Secret.

At CrimeReads Parks tagged "some of the best fictional portrayals of sex workers, and asks why the media so often relies on stereotype." One novel on her list:

The Less Dead by Denise Mina

Glasgow-based physician Margot Dunlop is trying to make sense of her world, and so reaches out to the agency that facilitated her adoption to get in touch with her birth mother, only to learn that she was a sex worker murdered shortly after Margot’s birth. Margot isn’t sure she wants to be involved in this dark underbelly of her roots, but she isn’t given a choice when the killer begins stalking and harassing her as well.

Read about the other books Parks tagged at CrimeReads.

--Marshal Zeringue