The Last Party

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars | 2,929 ratings

Price: 4.99

Last update: 09-18-2024


About this item

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?


From the Publisher

THIS PARTY IS GOING TO BE A KILLER

Top reviews from the United States

Jess Palomino
5.0 out of 5 stars Never underestimate love or fear.
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2024
The Last Party by A. R. Torre

Jaw dropping beginning to end!

This is my fourth approach to Torre’s writing and she never ceases to amaze me. She has the ability to transform a pristine and gorgeous setting into the most heinous and bloody mess you’ll ever find.

Moving on to character, they were so skillfully developed, so meticulously crafted that was a pleasure to experience them. To flow with each of them on a path that was set from the very first chapter.

I have to give Torre extra credit for dealing with such sensitive topic! I was bold! To have your readers hooked from the beginning knowing what this evil lady is planning, that was simply wow!

Even when there are lots of hints for us thriller lovers, the novel flowed and was so beautifully written!

I can’t say I expected that plot twist neither that encounter but it felt so good giving them at least the chance to talk.

After all, we should never underestimate father’s love.
K Rich
4.0 out of 5 stars interesting story
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2024
This book is definitely different from the same old storyline that us readers so often come across. I did enjoy the different take on the storyline. One thing I think that maybe could have been done away with was the little perspective stories from people around town. Some of them were valuable to the story but others just confused me with additional characters to keep track of. Overall a good read.
danimaldjb
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow. Compelling page-turner.
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2024
The Last Party by A. R. Torre

A compelling read about Perla & Grant Wultz whose daughter Sophie has her 12th birthday party coming up. Most of the story is from the POV of Perla, a fascinating complex character. The story revolves around the sensational Folcrum Party Murders committed more than 20 years ago by Leewood Folcrum. He's being interviewed in prison by Dr. Timothy Valden for his PhD dissertation on “Confessions and deceptions”. The twists & turns keep coming, subtly sneaking up on you so that you want to go back to see what you might have missed or misread. So many things are not what they seem to be.
Kristina Vasquez
4.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 ⭐️
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024
This was insane.

A creepy and kind of gross psychological thriller.
The story was great and the characters fit very well.

Perla and Grant Wultz are a married couple, united by a tragedy that happened in the past. Leewood Folcrum the murderer that ties them together. Or is he?

Secrets and lies start to unravel, and the more the truth begins to surface, the better the twists and turns.

Kept me engaged and entertained the whole way through.
Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Page turner
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
This was definitely hard to put down. A mother attempting to kill her own daughter and put the blame on her husband. There are so many twists and turns you can't imagine how its going to come out.
Susan
3.0 out of 5 stars way too predictable
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2024
Spoiler warning……

This was a quick read with no surprises. It was easy to see that the dad was serving time for his daughter’s psychopathic ways very early in the story. The only surprise is that the husband was able to block her plans of killing her own daughter. 2.5 stars for being intriguing enough to finish despite the predictability. I also like seeing into the mind of a psychopath. That was entertaining.
Sharon Thérèse
5.0 out of 5 stars A Rollercoaster Ride of Intrigue & Suspenseful Drama
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2024
Torre knows how to keep me guessing in her psychological suspense novels, especially in The Last Party. The high-grade angst never lets up, and attempting to work out ‘whodunit’ was challenging. I should have known better because this is the queen of masterful trickery. She successfully took me on a helter-skelter ride with its wildest twists and turns in one of the most mind-blowingly ingenious plots.

Get this! If there were one MC I utterly loved to hate, it had to be Perla Wultz. She wants for nothing and has taken precious time to become highly respected in her tight social circle. But, by now, I’d cottoned on to her manipulative ways which she’s good at. Motherly love and affection towards her husband she does flawlessly. But who’s she fooling and is the homelife she’d built so perfect? Her family certainly seemed to want to please her. Yet I still gave her pause despite her dark thoughts, and having an unhealthy obsession with whom you may ask makes for a gripping read.

I liked how Torre included beginning-of-shortish-chapter epigraphs, and how she’d woven the story together from multiple points of view. One, of course, is Perla’s, the other being an interested party who questions a convict assumed of committing a despicable crime years back. While being interviewed, the subtle cues of sarcasm and hints that are dropped are nothing less than word-clever. And then Sophie, Perla’s daughter, writes down unnerving thoughts in a diary I would never have expected from a pre-teen. However, the character I really took to was her father. Although he has an ace up his sleeve, neither he nor I could have known about the shocker to come. 

Torre certainly leaves everything up to your imagination in her latest offering. Lovers of darkish, fast-paced thrillers, pick up this book. You won’t regret it! Bravo, Torre!

 
kim
4.0 out of 5 stars intriguing
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2024
This book kept me engaged the whole time. I will say it’s a little predictable, but still a great read!

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