The Last Party

A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre. Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection. It seems an ideal life, if not for a decades-old crime that has become Perla’s dark and consuming secret obsession. Twenty-three years ago, Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during a birthday party. Though he’s been condemned to a life sentence, his crime is not forgotten. Not by Perla, nor by an inquisitive doctoral student interviewing Folcrum for his dissertation. He’s getting the killer to open up—about his motives, his confession, and the truth of what really happened on that horrible night. As the past and the present entwine, the deceptions behind the infamous murder begin to surface. But who’s deceiving who now? And why? And as an ingeniously twisted plan is set in motion, who will be the next to die?

Don't miss Clare's stunning new Ffion Morgan thriller, Other People's Houses - out now! ------------------------------------ THE TWISTY THRILLER AND TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A VILLAGE WITH THIS MANY SECRETS, A MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING . . . On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. He's celebrating the success of his lakeside holiday homes, and has generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. By midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year's Day, DC Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. She grew up in the tiny community, so the murder suspects are her neighbours, friends and family - and Ffion has her own secrets to protect. With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn't who wanted Rhys dead . . . but who finally killed him. A GAME OF LIES AND OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES , THE NEXT DC FFION MORGAN THRILLERS, ARE OUT NOW! 'Superb, devilishly clever, with echoes of Agatha Christie' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'Wickedly enjoyable' THE TIMES 'Mackintosh is just getting better and better with every book' PETER JAMES 'Leo and Ffion make a storming debut in this twisty tale' BELINDA BAUER 'A dark delight of a murder mystery!' JANICE HALLETT 'Warm, a tmospheric, ingenious - this is the new crime series you need in your life' WILL DEAN 'Insanely gripping' ERIN KELLY 'Mackintosh is a genius' FIONA CUMMINS 'An absolute triumph' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Brilliant, so atmospheric' RUTH WARE 'Whipsmart' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'DC Ffion Morgan is complicated, funny and very sweary' LOUISE CANDLISH 'Twists that blindside you all the way' MARI HANNAH 'Every chapter ends on a cliff hanger' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * THE LAST PARTY WAS A NO.5 SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER ON 08.04.2023

Don't miss Clare's stunning new Ffion Morgan thriller, Other People's Houses - out now! ------------------------------------ THE TWISTY THRILLER AND TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A VILLAGE WITH THIS MANY SECRETS, A MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING . . . On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. He's celebrating the success of his lakeside holiday homes, and has generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. By midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year's Day, DC Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. She grew up in the tiny community, so the murder suspects are her neighbours, friends and family - and Ffion has her own secrets to protect. With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn't who wanted Rhys dead . . . but who finally killed him. A GAME OF LIES AND OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES , THE NEXT DC FFION MORGAN THRILLERS, ARE OUT NOW! 'Superb, devilishly clever, with echoes of Agatha Christie' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'Wickedly enjoyable' THE TIMES 'Mackintosh is just getting better and better with every book' PETER JAMES 'Leo and Ffion make a storming debut in this twisty tale' BELINDA BAUER 'A dark delight of a murder mystery!' JANICE HALLETT 'Warm, a tmospheric, ingenious - this is the new crime series you need in your life' WILL DEAN 'Insanely gripping' ERIN KELLY 'Mackintosh is a genius' FIONA CUMMINS 'An absolute triumph' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Brilliant, so atmospheric' RUTH WARE 'Whipsmart' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'DC Ffion Morgan is complicated, funny and very sweary' LOUISE CANDLISH 'Twists that blindside you all the way' MARI HANNAH 'Every chapter ends on a cliff hanger' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * THE LAST PARTY WAS A NO.5 SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER ON 08.04.2023

'The loveliest - and certainly the most human - book about pop music I've ever read ... A delightful and humane soap opera, a real page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.' Jon Ronson, Daily Telegraph THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP - BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA, SUEDE & TONY BLAIR Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics and fleeting political optimism - this was 'Cool Britannia'. Records sold in their millions, a new celebrity elite emerged and Tony Blair's Labour Party found itself, at long last, returned to government. Drawing on interviews from all the major bands - including Oasis, Blur, Elastica and Suede - from music journalists, record executives and those close to government, The Last Party charts the rise and fall of the Britpop movement. John Harris was there; and in this gripping new book he argues that the high point of British music's cultural impact also signalled its effective demise - If rock stars were now friends of the government, then how could they continue to matter? Britpop in numbers: There were an astonishing 2.6 million ticket applications for the Oasis gig at Knebworth in 1996. 1 in 24 of the British public wanted to see them play. In the end the band played to 250,000 fans across two nights with a guest list that ran to 7,000. 'Definitely, Maybe', Oasis's debut album, went straight to No 1, selling 100,000 copies in 4 days and outselling the Three Tenors in second place by a factor of 50% On its first day in the shops Oasis's second album, 'What's The Story, Morning Glory', was selling at a rate of 2 copies a minute through HMV's London stores. By 1997 Creation Records (which had been founded 12 years earlier with a bank loan of GBP1,000 by an ex-British Rail Clerk Alan McGee) announced a turnover of GBP36million thanks almost entirely to one band: Oasis.

A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre. Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection. It seems an ideal life, if not for a decades-old crime that has become Perla's dark and consuming secret obsession. Twenty-three years ago, Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during a birthday party. Though he's been condemned to a life sentence, his crime is not forgotten. Not by Perla, nor by an inquisitive doctoral student interviewing Folcrum for his dissertation. He's getting the killer to open up--about his motives, his confession, and the truth of what really happened on that horrible night. As the past and the present entwine, the deceptions behind the infamous murder begin to surface. But who's deceiving who now? And why? And as an ingeniously twisted plan is set in motion, who will be the next to die?