A slow burner, once you get into the plot you won't be able to put the book down. 2 seemingly separate stories begin to entwine.

The woman of many names.
Leigh is a bigamist, and has disappeared. She leaves one husband in deep depression, with his son's who she adores.
Her best friend steps into Leigh's place as partner and mother.
The second husband is accused of his wife's murder. There is evidence that she was held in the building where they lived, on a lower floor.
I was not aware that this is a sequel to a prior book by this author, but I feel that it could also be a stand alone novel with a few changes.
I was wondering how Leigh/Kai explained her absence from home while she spent time at her other home.

All in all, a good book, a bit long though. Lots of intrigue, and a few places where my heart almost broke for the children.

Some characters I definitely did not like, Fiona, for one, just pushing herself into Leigh's life. And Mark, Leigh's husband, a wimpy spineless man, in my opinion.
I liked Daan, he's a man of action, knows what he wants and makes it happen.
Leigh/Kai/Kylie, I don't know if I like her character, selfish and wants it all, no matter who gets hurt.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest opinion.

I didn't want to stop reading this, found it a real page turner, and consequently I had very little sleep last night! Even though I felt, towards the end, it stretched a little too far into the realms of extremely unlikely to happen, by that point I was so invested I didn't really care! It's difficult to talk about without giving away massive plot spoilers, so I will just say that I hadn't a clue what was happening, but as it all started to pull together it became really exciting. I really liked the Detective, and I would've liked even more about her to be in the book. Maybe she'll come back in the future to investigate something else?
I had absolutely no clue this was a sequel until I got to the author's note at the end, but it works perfectly well as a standalone novel.

As the follow up to ‘Both of You’, I’m glad I’d read that before this one, although I did get a bit confused at times reading this, having a bit of a sense of deja vu. The story centres around Kai/Leigh’s disappearance and the turmoil and grief that was felt by those close to her, who were also still staggering from the news of her betrayal. The husbands are both obviously suspects, and things are made more difficult by lockdown and COVID.

Stacie has been ill, and is being looked after by her father, which, as she says, at her age isn’t right, especially as she can’t remember anything about her life or what happened to her.

I liked the premise of this story, and really enjoyed the first parts, but as it became more predictable, I found myself getting impatient with some of the characters, especially Mark and Stacie, and Fiona almost became a caricature. I liked the DCI, she seemed more real, although normally a senior police officer would be unlikely to be so hands on. However, I was sufficiently invested in the story to see where it went. 3 1/2⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I had read 53% of the book when somebody on Goodreads posted publicly about what happens. Clearly this totally ruined the book for me. I had been enjoying it immensely, hence that I have given it 4* for the first 53%. The spoiler was reported and has now been hidden.

I came across this novel, Just Between Us, by a happy accident, since I was not aware that there was in fact a sequel to the book Both of Us in the works!

I love Adele Parks' writing, so it's always exciting when she has a new book out. But I was especially excited to find out that this story would be following the same set of characters as the earlier book through the next part of the story. The conclusion to Both of Us had been open-ended, and therefore felt a little unfinished, but this tied up all the loose ends very satisfactorily.

It was interesting to see that Just Between Us can actually be read as a stand alone story. But I would recommend that people also check out Both of Us, because the premise of that novel was so bizarre and yet so convincingly done. Just Between Us successfully builds on the previous story, but the two books offer a different set of thrills each, and I really enjoyed both.

Just Between Us is set firmly in the pandemic period, and conveys the consequent sense of confusion and claustrophobia quite successfully. After her sudden disappearance and the subsequent investigation, Kylie Gillingham has been discovered to be a bigamist - and she has left in her wake two confused, angry husbands, two stepsons and a best friend reeling from the revelations.

The investigating police officer is grudgingly beginning to admire the nerve of a woman who simultaneously juggled two very different lives: Kai, the glamorous trophy wife of a Dutch millionaire, and Leigh, the devoted wife and mother living in a middle-class household with Mark and his two sons.

When she misses, by just a few hours, the opportunity to recover the abducted Kylie - who was being held prisoner by an unknown captor in the initial period after she disappeared - the policewoman becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Kylie.

As Kylie's family(ies) are struggling to come to terms with what has happened, a parallel story is unfolding, with Stacie Jones and her father, who are trying to deal with her harrowing diagnosis and its implications.

While this story is less shocking than Both of Us, the storytelling is equally effective. I found the plot gripping and the book hard to put down. For anyone looking for an interesting, absorbing, suspenseful read, I recommend reading both books in this set, but if you don't read Both of Us, it's still worth reading Just Between Us!

If you haven’t read Adele’s Both of You, it’s not imperative to this, but it will help. Kylie Gillingham is missing, presumed dead… and both her spouses hope it’s not true. In Both of You, readers are introduced to Leigh and Kai, two women who are closer than you think (much closer) and in this follow-up to the 2021 novel, police are searching for the missing Kylie. Her sons refuse to believe she is dead, her husbands are prime suspects and her best friend has ensured the family is kept going. Meanwhile, a young woman is being nursed by her father in a small village, after a horrific medical issue. She’s a reluctant recluse but one that, with the opening of restaurants and cafes etc – thank you Covid – hopes to return to the world’s goings-on. This is another insightful read from Adele about the levels that families will go to protect their loved ones.

This was a good read that had me on the edge of my seat at times. The first part of the story was intriguing and really had me gripped. I have to say though that several times towards the end of the book I thought ‘Oh come on, that absolutely would not happen!’ Those occasions spoiled the story for me because the first part had been so believable. I also felt that some chapters seemed to drag on unnecessarily.
It wasn’t until I read the author’s note at the end that I realised this was a sequel to Both of You. It’s almost two years since I read that one and have just checked the review I gave for it. It was so good that I’m going to have to read it again. I won’t be doing the same with Just Between Us, but thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the electronic copy.

This is a follow up to Both of You and I am very happy that we got a second book! Both of you did not end satisfactory for me, so I was excited to read this.
Overall, a lot of the story was extremely predictable, and the stupidity of some characters was almost funny, but there were still a lot of tense moments I enjoyed reading

I understand that this is a sequel, though I didn’t realise until i finished the book.
I found the first half confusing and then annoying as the characters have their own chapters and there is no apparent relationship between them. While i realised that there would be connections, it took a long time to reach them.
The second half was an excellent thriller as the people came together and their connections were revealed. I thoroughly enjoyed the second part of the book and can recommend it unreservedly.

I didn't realise this was the follow-on from Both Of You. You could read it as a standalone, but it's best to read both books in order.

Kylie, aka Kie/Leigh, is a bigamist, married to two very different men. Fiona is behind her kidnapping and has framed one of her husband’s for her murder.

As the storyline unfolds, you wonder how much more one person has to suffer. It gets to the point where you start to feel sorry and forgive their past. It's hard to say more without leaving spoilers. The ending was very satisfying.

‘Just Between Us’ follows on from Adele Parks’ bestseller, ‘Both of You’ but readers don’t have to know of the first in order to understand the sequel. Bigamist Kylie has disappeared and likely been murdered by one of her husbands. She leaves behind two angry, grieving and confused boys whom she has cherished from a young age, after the death of their birth mother. Now she has gone, her best friend, Fiona, has stepped into the breech to support them and their father, Mark. Meanwhile, Daan, husband number two, has been arrested for Kylie’s murder and is desperate to clear his name.
At the same time, Adele Parks gives us a parallel story: Stacie is recuperating from a brain tumour, living a quiet life near Lyme Regis at her father’s house. It’s frustrating not to be able to remember much of her life but, under her father’s care, she has a good chance of slowly recovering.
In her Afterword, the author thanks her readers for begging her to write this sequel which, originally, she had no intention of doing. Let’s hope they are satisfied. Unfortunately, there are many places in the plot where it’s very difficult to suspend one’s disbelief. Although there are twist and turns aplenty to satisfy readers who enjoy this sort of narrative, this excitement does not outweigh the sheer impossibility of the storyline.
My thanks to NetGalley and HQ for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair review.

I didn't realise this was a sequel to Both of Us. Once I got into the first few chapters and started reading the Stacie chapters I really enjoyed the story and couldn't put the book down. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review this book.

Kylie Gillingham is missing, and all the evidence points to her having been kept captive and tortured before being murdered. In cases where a woman is killed, the first person the police look to is usually the spouse. And in this case, there are not one but two husbands. Because Kylie was a bigamist living a double life, and now both of her husbands are suspects in her disappearance and murder.

I started reading Just Between Us without realising that it’s a sequel of sorts, and it is enormously to Parks’ credit that it worked perfectly well as a standalone. Did I think the plunging into the story at the point it did a little odd? Yes. But it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the book in the least. I did, however, find it a bit slow going at times and almost DNF’d before things picked up in the final third. I’m glad I did finish, as once it got going I enjoyed it.

This is a great sequel to ‘Both of you’ that picks up exactly where it left off with the police still trying to track down Kylie and her husbands and children still left reeling. Fast forward a few months where she’s still missing, presumed dead but with one husband now accused of murder and one of her sons refusing to accept she’s dead they’re still desperate to find out what happened to her.

This is very difficult to review without giving away any spoilers, I think for me it lacked surprise but I did enjoy catching up with the characters and seeing the story reach a definitive conclusion. It is fine as a standalone but personally I would read both books in order, ideally back to back to get a full feel of both stories and character.

A fantastic premise- the wife of 2 separate men missing presumed dead and all the evidence pointing to one of the husbands but with so many peripheral characters barging their way to the forefront of the story it is hard for the detectives to sort the truth from the lies.
Meanwhile on the coast Stacie is recovering from brain surgery and is struggling with her memories.

As the story unfolds and the evidence is examined more thoroughly an explosive set of actions leads to a heart-stopping culmination of both storylines.
excellent book!

I absolutely LOVED this book. It comes as no surprise, as I also loved Both of You, my only issue with it being that the end was left too open for my tastes, so thank you Adele Parks for righting that for me!

It was wonderful to see the characters from Both of You again as they were so well written, and it's just such an interesting and unique story, I couldn't get enough of it. I absolutely couldn't put this down and the ending this time was really satisfying.

I would 100% recommend this book but I disagree a bit that it can be enjoyed as a standalone, in my opinion you really do need to read Both of You first to have any investment in the characters and plot.

I’d read and loved Both of You by Adele Parks and realised as soon as I started reading Just Between Us that this is the sequel. As Both of You has a rather opening ending, Just Between Us clears up the ambiguity.
We meet up with the same characters as in the first book – Kylie Gillingham, Mark Fletcher, Daan Janssen, DC Clements and Constable Tanner. Kylie has now been missing for several months and is likely dead, but no body has been found. In cases such as these, everyone suspects the husband, but Kylie had two husbands.
Gripping, fast-paced, packed to the hilt with colourful characters and twists. A good premise and a good sequel, although I quite like open endings and don’t feel that Both of You needed any loose ends wrapped up! Although Just Between Us works well as a standalone, I’d recommend reading Both of You first.

At the start of this book I thought I was having a severe case of deja vu until I realised that this was a sequel to Both of You, and the continuing saga of the life Kylie/Leigh/Kai left behind

It’s a book almost impossible to review deeply without giving away spoilers, and that’s the last thing you want to happen! Once again the author has conceived a plot that’s full of twists and turns and at times totally bonkers. Both of You had a very ambiguous ending. This book sums it all up nicely, and I was very happy with the result ;).

Not entirely a standalone book, as there is such lot of back story that is relevant, but would make you want to go to BofY to see where it all started if you read this one first.

A captivating read, one to relish.

Thank you NetGalley.

I didn't realise this was the sequel to Both of You, so it was a treat to rediscover some great characters from that earlier book. I was absolutely gripped by this latest book and couldn't put it down. The story is clever and well-written and Kylie in particular is a very sympathetic character. I loved it!