The Last Sin is a gripping psychological thriller written by Rebecka Aldén and published by Denoël, which will lead you into the downward spiral of Nora, its heroine who is both so perfect and so fragile.
After surviving a terrible accident, Nora decided to change her life and no longer endure an unsatisfying daily routine. She embarked on a career as an author and speaker, assisted by her husband. To complete the change, Nora and her family moved into a magnificent villa that they completely renovated.
As Nora works on her next book based on the seven deadly sins, Klara, a beautiful young woman, moves into the neighborhood and is quickly accepted by everyone. Only Nora feels a deep unease towards her, an unease that intensifies and she can’t explain, plunging her back into her past and the trials she has endured.
The Last Sin is the first novel by Swedish journalist Rebecka Aldén. Brilliantly written, this psychological thriller places its plot in a decidedly modern context.
After her terrible accident, Nora threw herself wholeheartedly into reorganizing her life, reassessing everything, and deciding to change it all, including her image and especially the one she presents to the world. In addition to becoming an author, she has perfectly learned to play with social media and is aware of the impact they can have on the success or failure of a career and a public life…
Nora has thus become an expert in the field, not hesitating to stage her daily workout or a family meal, but her kingdom is thrown into disorder by the arrival of a new neighbor.
With accurate and efficient writing, Rebecka Aldén places the reader alongside Nora, whose unease and anxiety increase in a crescendo. Who is Klara? What does she want? Is Nora losing her mind?
The atmosphere becomes heavier with each page, becoming frankly terrifying and tense towards the end.
And while this psychological thriller is perfectly well-constructed, one might (slightly) regret that the author did not detail more of Nora’s childhood and the life in the Parish about which little is ultimately known.
The author perfectly masters the codes of an intense page-turner while showing the addictive side of social media. Rebecka Aldén offers us a thriller without any dull moments, whose ending fulfills all its promises!
