Little Face
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3.8 • 66 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Hannah (Hurting Distance) weaves together two narrative voices to create this complex and occasionally forced thriller set in rural England. Excitable new mother Alice Fancourt calls the police, claiming her baby girl has been replaced by a nearly identical infant. Alice believes her husband, David, is responsible, but it soon appears that David's mother, the rich and formidable Vivienne, is up to no good. Det. Simon Waterhouse has a soft spot for the possibly delusional Alice, with whom he alternates narration, but his undeveloped character renders their relationship, or lack thereof, of little interest. More engrossing is Waterhouse's complicated friendship with his boss, Sgt. "Charlie" Zailer, a feisty, appealing woman with a major crush on her subordinate. When Alice and the baby disappear and the police reopen the murder investigation of David's first wife, some interesting discoveries are made, but readers enticed by the intriguing opening will find the payoff ultimately unsatisfying.
Customer Reviews
Great until the end
I couldn’t stop reading this but at the end I was disappointed. I won’t spoil it but I’ll say this: I can’t stand when we see the story from a point of view of one person, and then in the end it turns out that it was false. We’re led to believe the character feels and thinks or knows one thing, then in the end it comes out that the character knew something completely different. Why even write their point of view? Are we supposed to believe they were just thinking to themselves in lies the whole time?Seems like cheating to me.
Great Book
Very interesting from the very beginning! Makes you wna keep turning pages until you find out what's going on! There's some surprise in every chapter!