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A new mother in rural England comes home a baby she swears is not her own in this first chilling installment in the Zailer & Waterhouse detective mysteries.
“Superb . . . good, old-fashioned spine-tingling stuff, but also a fine modern thriller.” —The Times (London)
The first time she goes out after their daughter is born, Alice leaves the two-week-old infant at home with her husband, David. When she returns two hours later, she insists that the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her apparent distress, David is adamant that she is wrong.
The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alice’s story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depression. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it’s too late?
“Superb . . . good, old-fashioned spine-tingling stuff, but also a fine modern thriller.” —The Times (London)
The first time she goes out after their daughter is born, Alice leaves the two-week-old infant at home with her husband, David. When she returns two hours later, she insists that the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her apparent distress, David is adamant that she is wrong.
The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alice’s story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depression. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it’s too late?
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About the author
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime author and award-winning poet. She has written more than thirty works of fiction and poetry, including a series of mysteries that revive Agatha Christie's iconic sleuth Hercule Poirot. Her writing has garnered wide critical acclaim and has been listed for many awards, including the T.S. Eliot Award and the Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award. She lives with her family in Cambridge, England, where she holds an Honorary Fellowship at the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.
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