Our Beautiful Mess - September 2025 Crime Collective'Adele Parks consistently writes banger after banger, and Our Beautiful Mess might just be her best yet. Addictive and brilliant Lisa Jewell 'Had me gripped from beginning to end. Masterfully written with gut punching twists and brimming with tension this is Adele Parks best book yet. Absolutely outstanding Claire Douglas Adele Parks has done it again. Grabbed me from page one and kept me there on the edge of my seat. Superb writing as ever. She

the East India Company's native soldiers rise up against their British officers

except for the tantalising email

Also includes a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full

'A thrillingly vivid

and stay one step ahead of their pursuers - if they're to answer the questions which have plagued them - it's going to require every dirty

and withdrawn

earnest speculation

oak-felling missionaries and mighty martyrs

and suspicion falls on a local vigilante group

with one eye on the present and one on the past

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