This book was a bit of a strange one for me. In one way I enjoyed it and in another I found it quite long and drawn out.
Based in an old people's home , I found it a very original concept. The formatting was confusing and spoiled the flow of the book. No spaces between words and no break for new chapters.
I guess this will be addressed when the book is published.
I still don't really know how I felt about the book as a whole but the fact i finished it has to be a positive.

It was a very insightful novel, with a strong cast of characters. I enjoyed the storyline very much and would definitely reccomend this book.

Adeline moves into a assisted living facility as she is starting to be forgetful and her only daughter travels for work so is unable to care for her. Although Adeline knows at times she forgets things sh knows she is not crazy. Someone is out to get her and make others think she is nuts.
Was a good story although started a bit slow it was entertaining.

Adeline Evans is an elderly lady with dementia who is put into a nursing home. Strange things are happening but she isn't sure how much is real. How terrifying for her. Good storyline, some creepy characters. I was invited to read this book by the Publisher. Thanks to NetGalley, Harper Collins and the Author for allowing me to read and review this book.

I had great trouble reading this e-book, due to some chapters having no spacing at all between words and chapters were not clearly marked. A little off putting and had to keep rereading. Anyhow, Addy Evans, enters a nursing home to be near her daughter Claire when she is diagnosed with dementia after the death of her husband Charles. She hates the nursing home as it is in the area where she grew up as a child and had left with bad memories back in 1959, when there was a murderer on the loose. It soon becomes clear that someone in the nursing home is out to get her as she gets mysterious notes and there is strange goings. With her dementia, Addy finds it hard to work out who is targeting her because of her dementia. The story is told in flashbacks and the present day. A good, tense story which has you wondering is it the dementia or is it real! With the focus on dementia and some unspeakable characters, this is an uncomfortable and distressing reading.

Adeline Evans and elderly lady suffering from Dementia agrees to go into a nursing home,there she has good days and bad days.One thing addy does remember is the summer of 1959 when a killer was on the loose the town was in a panic but addy doesn't know who to tell as she does not trust anyone.I enjoyed reading this book Thank you.5*

The One Who Got Away on paper should have been my kind of book on paper but unfortunately it fell a little short for me.

I enjoyed the plot but felt at times there was too much going on. It didn’t command my attention as much as I thought it would and I found myself getting bored and desperate to get to the end.

I loved the setting and the book was well paced but i didn’t click with it as much as I hoped.

The One Who Got Away is an edge of your seat thriller. Adeline (Addy) Evans is elderly and moving into a nursing home. She has dementia and that comes with good remembering days and bad remembering days. Part of her time she spends in the past remembering when she first started dating her husband in 1959. That summer, a murderer was on the loose in her area killing women. The town was in a panic.

Now, Addie is remembering those days and she doesn't know who to trust - herself and her memory included. Strange happenings begin at the nursing home. Are these related to the decades-old crime or is someone really trying to make Addie off his killing list?

Very good thriller - some of the nursing home workers in this story were abusive which was very hard to read. Caution if you are sensitive to this kind of material.

Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the ecopy. Adeline has moved into a nursing home, and not a good one. The staff is horrible and so is the place itself. Not a very calming place to live. Half of the residents are out of it. She didn't want to live back in the area since when she was younger there was a serial killer on the loose. Random things start to happen within the nursing home. And Adeline having Dementia makes you wonder what's real and what is made up in her mind. The story flips past to present.

This unexpectedly addictive thriller is narrated through the lone thoughts and fears of a care home resident with Dementia. Facts are understandably sketchy adding to the enigma of the people who ‘exist’ on the third floor.

Adeline’s anxiety is recognised only as a symptom of a cruel illness and instead of feeling reassured by the protection of professional care, her reasons to feel (and be) afraid escalate with each new dawn, a theme that echoes across the pages to consistently taunt Adeline both inside and out.

Carefully crafted secrets, regret, isolation, and raw helplessness – it’s all here and it influences a sinister game that is being played with cunning and a whole heap of patience.

There were times I found it difficult to fully engage with the story due to a few passages feeling a little protracted. But, strangely, it was one of those books that continued to demand my attention and I wanted to pick up where I left off as soon as I could.

Many question marks form the backbone of this story which supports Adeline’s current predicament perfectly, especially as the complications and barriers of Dementia can shed a different light on everything as someone’s world grows increasingly darker.

*** ACTUAL RATING: 3.5 / 5 ***

Wow! I totally loved this book! I was gripped from the very beginning and it never let go. Such a dark and twisted tale about real life scary situations. The characters were wonderfully developed. So easy to connect on a deep level with some characters and SO easy to get really upset at others. A delicious domestic thriller!
I highly recommend this book!
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Tense chilling kept me reading late in to the night.My favorite type of thriller multi layered a twist on each page kept me guessing to the end.#netgalley#harpercollinsuk

Took me a while to get into this one was okay read didn’t have me gripped but the story line was good, Thankyou to netgalley for the arc

This book was fast paced. Hard to put down. It flowed well and it was very well written. It caught hold of me and had me hooked from the start . I was literally on the edge of my seat reading this book.

I received an advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book, like the author’s previous, was just too twisted for color TV. But I loved every minute. I would be really scared to meet this writer in a dark alley, but the books amuse
Solid four batshit stars

This book sounded good but didn't live up to the description. I didn't finish it. This one isn't for me , sorry

How can you solve a crime when your own mind is working against you? In the summer of 1959, Adeline’s town was being stalked by a serial killer, abducting, mutilating, and killing teenage girls. Adeline escapes with her life, but 60 years later it seems the past might be back to haunt her. But is the danger she senses real? Or is it merely the cruel hand of dementia reaching into her mind...?

This is quite possibly one of the hardest books I've had to review. On the one hand, it's totally unique - a murder mystery/thriller set in a home for the elderly? It's completely bizarre, especially when you couple it with the fact that the narrator, Adeline, has dementia. And this is where the issue comes in. Writing a character struggling with dementia is incredibly difficult - getting the balance right between making it accurate without becoming a caricature. In this case, there were sections that were very well-written, and others that were just plain confusing.

I think part of the problem is there was just too much going on at times. The book is told from 4 main perspectives - Adeline now in the care home, Adeline as a teenager in the summer of 1959, newspaper articles from the same time period covering the murders happening in the town, and finally the murderers perspective, also based in 1959. This made it feel quite muddled, and sometimes I had to reread a few sections in order to try and clarify what was going on. The inclusion of the news articles was ok, I can see that it was done to disclose information about the murders but they were very long and very simplistically written, which made it seem a bit pointless. The murderers sections were also very odd - there was never really any real motive given, and the clues as to his identity meant you guessed far too quickly, leaving the rest of the book quite dull as you waited for Adeline to catch up.

Similarly, the present day sections also had issues. Yes, old people die all the time, but a serial killer loose in a home for the elderly is just odd, especially when the deaths are clearly not accidents or natural causes. Having the staff also be abusive just felt daft - I know it was done to again increase the suspect list (after all, having to decide which of the 3 old men was the killers just wasn't enough!), but it just felt like too much of a stereotype to have the failing care home with awful carers.

The finale was ok, the author didn't go down the route I expected which was a pleasant surprise. Nonetheless, the ending was so dragged out that by the time it happened, you really didn't care. All of the tension had gone, and I was just desperate for the book to finish so I could move on. All in all, it was ok - it was a novel idea that at times was well-written. For me, it just didn't work. It all felt a touch ridiculous, and while I did finish it, I would've been very disappointed if I had paid for it.

I also need to address a major issue with the version of the book that I received. There were some major formatting issues, mainly focusing on the news articles in the past but also dotted throughout the book (sections where there were no spaces between words soitallrantogether, making it very hard to comprehend certain sections). I'm just this won't be the case with the final copy, but it definitely made this one hard to read. It hasn't affect my review, as it is a technical issue not one to do with the writing, but it did definitely make it harder to read., and I would advise the publishers to fix this sooner rather than later, otherwise I imagine the reviews commenting on the confusing nature of the book will continue.

Disclaimer - I was provided with an advance reading copy of this book by NetGalley. This has not affected my review in any way, and all opinions are my own.

Adeline just moved into an elderly home and not one that will give her any peace of mind. Between the smell of death, horrible staff members and more than half of the residents are out of their mind; it's hardly a place where Adeline would call peaceful. She had came back to live in the same town that she had once flee from. The horrific serial killer was on the loose within the town when she was younger. She tried even harder to flee from those memories. It seems that life has come full circle. Here she is back again. Especially when things starts to happen within the walls of the retirement home.

The story started off in the past and then flip to the present. What was supposed to be a good murder mystery more than a psychological thriller has actually left me feeling more muddle than anything. Adeline voice in the present doesn't give the reader much to as whether or not her mind is still there or is she really in a state of dementia. I guess that place on to the mystery theme. The killer's voice doesn't exactly sound sane, but then again is any killer really sane. However, it was never explained as to a motive, which left me feeling lost and confused. Because as the story goes, the killer back story and his voice does not make him a psychopath where he is without empathy. He's very well aware of his actions; therefore, he would have a motive to why he kills. The ending does have a surprise I don't think I saw coming; however, again the surprise is not cohesive with the story line.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The One Who Got Away unfortunately wasn’t a story I could stick with.
L.A Detwiler is a fantastic author and I really enjoyed The Widow Next Door so maybe my expectations were just a little high for this book.

It’s such a interesting idea to have a thriller with an elderly character set in an old people’s home and I really wanted to love TOWGA but Adeline was just too annoying for me to get far into the story. As a reader I need to be able to picture scenes, this is just too fast paced and I got confused.

Sorry I really wanted to give this a 5. :(