The must-read Richard and Judy Book Club pick 2018

I had read the authors previous book, so was interested in this one. It starts very slowly, with multiple narrators,but builds as the stories emerge and connect. The main character is a middle aged reporter for a London paper who becomes interested in the discovery of a child's skeleton in a building being demolished. This character follows the trail that links all of the other narrators. Great writing,masterful plot construction and a lot of surprise and suspense. All of the primary characters are women, fully realized. A really good book.

I had read the authors previous book, so was interested in this one. It starts very slowly, with multiple narrators,but builds as the stories emerge and connect. The main character is a middle aged reporter for a London paper who becomes interested in the discovery of a child's skeleton in a building being demolished. This character follows the trail that links all of the other narrators. Great writing,masterful plot construction and a lot of surprise and suspense. All of the primary characters are women, fully realized. A really good book.

This tale is amazingly convoluted but the ends tie up nicely. You start with fragments and resolve, but it still is a wonder that you got there. Nothing is more densely desired than a baby for most women because it puts your footprint on your world. To twist that point turns you painfully upside down.
Great read.

I found this book to be very moving and engrossing. The characters are well-drawn and interesting. I love that. Out of the characters' stories were in the third-person, with Emma's in first-person. It was an unusual choice which turned out to work very well. There were no loose ends, which is always good in a mystery. And even though he mystery was engrossing, the characters carry the story.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a little confusing at first, trying to follow the multiple characters' storylines, as they alternated each chapter. But there was a great twist ending that ties everything together.

Engaging and suspenseful, lots of twists and turns.
I love Kate, the journalist with her drive and not so perfect life, just another human searching for a story and ultimately the truth.
If you can’t trust your mother, who can you trust?
Very disturbing and highly recommendable.

Normally I don't read other reviews prior to writing my own, but in the case of Fiona Barton's, "The Child", I needed to see if other reviewers had a similar experience with this thriller, and I confirmed that they did.

The writing, the basic premise, and the structure (alternating points of view) are well crafted and Barton paces the novel very well. Basic plot: Kate Waters is a London reporter who becomes intrigued when the remains of an infant are uncovered at a building excavation. She follows the story, and we are also privy to the possibility that Jude, Angela, and Emma, are somehow involved in the mystery. The problem is that most readers will figure out this mystery way before the supposedly smart police and reporters do. However disappointing that is, the novel does hold your interest and it would make a great travel/beach read. 3.5 stars.

I figured out "the big twist" about halfway through, and only kept reading to confirm I was right. Kate and her storyline are boring filler. The author could have told the story in about half the number of pages, but instead the pacing was slow and the book is weighed down with a lot of superfluous "stuff" that does nothing to move the story along. I didn't care much about the characters, so I found myself skimming through the last half, looking for the critical plot points and skipping the musings of the various players.

I attempted to read Fiona Barton’s debut novel The Widow and put it down half
way through. I thought The Child was a significantly better book. While the pacing in the beginning tends to be slow, this is one of those slow burns. It does take a while to build character development in order to connect with all three of the female characters involved. I also liked the short chapters, told from alternating points of view….this appears to be a sound way to structure a book, in which each character, unaware of each other, possesses a piece of the puzzle... which comes together as the book proceeds.

In a building site in Woolwich, the southeast section of London, the tiny skeleton of a baby is unearthed by demolition crews. To Kate Waters, a journalist at The Evening Standard, who is looking for her next big scoop, this enigma leaves her wondering about the mother of the child. “who is the baby? How did it die? Who would bury a baby? Angela Irving senses with a mother’s intuition that this is her baby, kidnapped from her maternity room 40 years ago. Emma Simmonds, a young married editor, with what appears to be a severe anxiety disorder, is fearful that the her past, unknown to anyone, has finally caught up with her…. How these women are connected and what did happen to the baby who is called the “Building Site Baby” makes up the crux of the story.
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More a psychological drama, as opposed to a thriller, the author had command of the material and all of the intricate threads that are cleverly plotted …The three main female characters were well written and easy to care about…. Kate, an old-fashioned, pencil and paper type of journalist has empathy for those involved in the story she writes about…. Emma, bone-weary after a difficult childhood and years of keeping secrets and Angela despairing of ever finding closure to her devastating loss. The book builds to a climatic ending, and even though I saw it coming, it did not mar the journey. 3 ½ stars rounded up to four for the cathartic ending...

This novel was slow going, and indeed, I almost DNF'd but I'm glad I kept with it. The constant jump back and forth among the main characters was a little confusing, but started to become tedious. The book doesn't really hit its stride until Kate's investigation finally starts to intersect with more characters, sewing the disparate storylines together - at last.

I have to give myself a little pat on the back because I had a very strong suspicion as to what happened to Alice. SPOILER!!! It started for me at the point Jude (Judith) acted very peculiar in not letting Charlie hold his daughter or allowing him to have any interaction with her really. Also, the fact that he was gone for almost the entire pregnancy, and more crucially, the birth, made my antenna go way up. END SPOILER!

From this point on, I kept reading to see how Fiona Barton would connect the dots, and am glad to say she did not disappoint.

Overall, "The Child" was a a well written novel, intricately plotted, and populated with interesting - even quite sympathetic (e.g., Emma) characters. I particularly liked Kate's crew, the group of people at her newspaper office. It presented a slice of real life work and working conditions in today's newspaper offices. Inevitably, in a novel of this sort, it's the women who came across as more developed characters compared to the men. Even now, I still don't get a great sense of who Emma's or Angela's husbands are as husbands or men. Still, that doesn't detract from the gripping read that is "The Child" (well, gripping from the quarter mark onwards).

The Child is a well written mystery that was hard to put down. I found the characters to be well developed and interesting, and the story compulsively readable. The Child centers around the unearthing of a newborn infant's skeleton and the efforts of reporter Kate Waters to discover the infant's identity and the circumstances surrounding its death. Thanks to a big twist that I just didn't see coming, I was clueless about how things would resolve themselves until the last 40 pages or so. The author told a story that was both believable and relatable, filled with honest emotion and heartfelt tragedy.

Although this is Kate Waters second adventure, it was my first experience with the character. I loved her intelligence, persistence and heart. The dialogue is rich in authenticity and made me feel that Kate was someone I could run into on the street, if I happened to find myself in London one day. This is an enjoyable read that I would recommend to any mystery lover or any fan of women's fiction. An excellent book club choice, The Child is an enthusiastic recommend.

Fiona Barton reprises journalist Kate Waters from her debut novel, The Widow, for a new novel titled, The Child. The long-buried remains of a newborn child are found on a jobsite and Kate and her paper are trying to identify the child. Detective Bob Sparks from the earlier novel makes some brief appearances in this book. Barton again uses multiple narrators. Overall, I found myself less entertained by this novel than the earlier one. I thought the pacing of this novel was pretty slow, and the multiple crimes took a long time to present. By the end of the novel, I thought it was ok, but by then I was ready to move on to something else.

Rating: Three-star (It’s ok)

3.5 stars

Like many print journalists in the internet age, Kate Waters - a reporter for the 'London Daily Post' - is anxious about her employment. The paper is slated to let some reporters go, and Kate - wanting job security - needs a good story to impress her boss. Hence, when Kate learns that an infant's bones were dug up at a London excavation site, she thinks it's just the ticket. Kate proceeds to investigate the incident, with an eye to publishing the identity of the child's mother and the circumstances surrounding the burial.

Kate's initial article about the tiny corpse strikes a chord with two women, former nurse Angela Irving and book editor Emma Simmonds.

Angela Irving gave birth to a baby girl, Alice, over forty years ago - but didn't get to take the infant home. The newborn was stolen from the hospital and never found. Angela, who still hasn't recovered from the loss, thinks the unearthed baby might be her child.

Emma Simmonds grew up on the street where the baby was found, and lived there until she was sixteen. News of the uncovered newborn makes Emma very anxious, but we don't learn why until later.

Most of the story is told from three rotating points of view: Kate, Angela, and Emma.

Kate, an experienced journalist with helpful police contacts, interviews both Angela and Emma - and gets on the inside track with both of them. Thus, when the cops compare Angela's DNA with the baby's DNA, Kate is one of the first to know the results. And when Emma decides to recount her story, she tells it to the reporter. The police aren't always happy about Kate's 'interference', but she actually helps their investigation.

Kate Waters was first introduced in Fiona Barton's previous novel, 'The Widow', in which she was a VERY aggressive journalist - who'd do anything to get her story. I found Kate to be overly abrasive in that novel, and didn't like her much.

In this book Kate is STILL pushy, but demonstrates some of her softer side - both at home and at work.....where she's mentoring a young reporter named Joe. Kate remains focused on getting scoops and writing juicy articles, but shows empathy for Angela and Emma. So that's good.

In Angela's narrative, we learn about her husband Nick and their two grown children, who find it difficult to deal with Angela's unquenchable grief. Angela is desperate for closure regarding Alice - even if it means learning that the child died a long time ago.

In Emma's story, we find out that she was a troubled girl who had a turbulent relationship with her mother Jude, an attorney. Jude raised Emma alone, and though Emma asked constantly, Jude wouldn't identify the father. This had unfortunate consequences.

Things got even worse when Jude's boyfriend, Will, moved in with them. Jude was forced to choose between her man and her daughter, and she chose Will - forcing 16-year-old Emma to move out. As a result, mother and daughter didn't speak for years.

Emma is married to an 'older man' - a college professor named Paul - who's very solicitous of her welfare. Emma loves Paul, but has kept a lot of secrets from him. For her part, Jude doesn't like Paul and would like to see her daughter split up with him. In fact Jude - who recounts some sections of the book - shows herself to be a callous, selfish woman who's desperate for a man. She's also a terrible mother (IMO).

As Kate and the police pursue their inquiries, big secrets are revealed - things that eventually pull all the threads of the story together in a very satisfying way. My major qualm with the book is a plot point that stretches credibility quite a bit - more than I'm comfortable with.

Overall, I enjoyed this suspenseful, well-written book, which has compelling characters and a page-turner storyline. I highly recommend the book to mystery lovers, who'll enjoy trying to puzzle out what's going on.

*Thanks to Anne Cater and the publishers. I received a copy in exchange for an honest review*

The story is told from four different viewpoints - Angela, who's child was kidnapped many years ago, Kate, who's a reporter, Emma, who is portrayed as someone who suffers with mental health problems, and Emma's Mother, Jude.

The story opens with a baby being found on a building site. Angela immediately hopes it is her daughter. Kate, being a reporter, decides to sniff out the full story. Emma is upset by the news, as it is the street she grew up in with her Mum, Jude.

What is the real story? Who is the baby?

I found the book very difficult to get into. It took a long time to really get going, and the information was dripped through quite slowly at first. Having said that, it did improve as time went on.

I think the book would be better described as "Domestic Noir" than a thriller. It is a page turner, but it is not an edge of your seat thriller, much more a slow burner.

I liked that you were given the viewpoints as it gave a better feel to the narrative. I didn't feel any particular connection to any of the characters, although I understand Kate is a return character, having previously appeared in "The Widow".

Overall, a little too slow for me.

The Child is a thriller told from four different perspectives. Emma, Kate, Angela and Jude. The plot is written over a period of time, from 20th March 2012, to 16th May 2012, with a couple of follow up chapters at the end, dated 2013.

Emma suffers from what I presume is depression/anxiety issues. She feels vulnerable and sad most of the time, sometimes struggling to just get out of bed. On 20th March 2012 the Evening Standard newspaper, ran with a story about a baby’s body being found on the building site of where an old house used to stand. This news sent Emma into a panic, making her feel like there was no air in her lungs.

Kate is a journalist for the Evening Standard. The story of the baby’s body being found wasn’t really of interest to the paper, being that it looked like the body had been there for many years. Kate though suspected that there was more to the case, and started her own investigation.

Angela is devastated by events years earlier, when her newborn daughter had cruelly been taken from her, just 24 hours after she was born. Every year on the 20th March, Angela would grieve for her daughter. The news of a baby’s body being found had given her hope that it may be that of her daughter, and that she may finally understand what happened to her.

Jude is Emma’s mum, and a past resident of the now demolished house. She hasn’t had the greatest relationship with her daughter for many years, after her boyfriend kicked a teenage Emma out on to the street. She is a very selfish woman, one who likes to put herself first.

Three of these women are in some way connected to the baby’s body. Will Kate dig up enough information to put the puzzle together, and for the truth to be outed?

Now I’m not normally a fan of multiple perspective books, that’s not to say I don’t read them, just not very often. I need there to be a valid reason for the author using multiple voices. I’m happy to say that I feel this book just wouldn’t work without it being written in this manner.

Around 20 chapters in, I was sure I knew exactly what had happened. Whilst I wasn’t 100% wrong, I certainly didn’t predict all of what had occurred all those years ago.

The book is by no means fast paced, but it is most definitely a gripping, intense, suspenseful thriller. The twists, turns, and red herrings that Ms. Barton has written, certainly do throw you off course, more than once.

Whilst a couple of the main characters did grate on me a bit, Jude and Emma, I enjoyed feeling as if I was part of Kate’s investigation. Just a woman with a hunch to go on, one who wouldn’t let the story lie, even when it took her to some dark places.

A brilliantly executed second novel, and I look forward to reading more from this author.

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*I received a free copy of this book, which I voluntarily reviewed

When journalist, Kate Waters, reads that a child’s skeleton has been found buried in a London construction area, she wonders if there is a bigger story here. After some investigation, she discovers secrets and pieces of a puzzle that don’t seem to fit together. The skeleton is identified as a baby that had been kidnapped from a hospital over 40 years ago. The police don’t hold out much hope for this case to be solved after so much time has gone by.

Kate has no intention of letting this go by without at least trying to find some closure for the parents who have suffered all these years not knowing what happened to their baby. She ends up discovering a bigger story than she ever expected.

I must admit this book started off slow for me, but then it picked up tremendously and I couldn’t stop reading. The chapters are short so it made it even easier to keep swiping my e-reader. I had to know how this all ended. I had a good idea, but I wasn’t sure of all the details involved.

Each chapter is told from a different point of view - Emma, Kate, Jude and Angela. This technique made it quite interesting as you read what each person is thinking and going through. For me, it enhanced the story very much. I thought it might be confusing, but it wasn’t.

It’s a fascinating story delving into the psyche of different characters - their different emotions and motivations which guided the characters and their decisions.

It may have started out slow for me, but after the first couple of chapters, it was anything but that. The book sped by, keeping me up for hours at night reading. I was disappointed when it ended. I already miss the characters. I will definitely be looking for more books by this author.

FTC Disclosure: I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.

A journalist begins to investigate what her gut tells her is an important story. As she looks into the death of an infant, she finds out that the truth is far more complicated and shocking than anyone could have imagined. British author Fiona Barton brings back a character from her first book to headline her second novel in the thought-provoking story of The Child.

It’s 2012, and reporter Kate Waters has hit a lull in her work. Everyone seems to be talking about the upcoming London Olympics, but Kate wants to work on something different. When she runs across a tiny blurb in a newspaper about the skeleton of a baby found in a neighborhood slated for demolition and rebuilding, she gets a tingling sensation. Kate loves nothing more than taking a seemingly innocuous piece of information and chasing down the story behind it.

Emma spends her days managing her emotions and cleaning up the manuscripts of ghostwriters who tackle minor British celebrities. She finds herself circling back to trauma from earlier in her life, but she can’t approach it with shoulders squared and head held high. Instead she cowers in the face of her experience, sharing stealthy glances with it on her good days. On her bad days, she doesn’t look at anything. After she reads the bit about the remains of the baby, Emma wonders whether she’ll only have bad days from now on.

Angela does her best to forget about her kidnapped baby, but the child’s spirit hovers over her shoulder in the most unsettling ways. Even though she now has two other children, she can’t forget about the little one who made her a mother for the first time. It’s inevitable, on hearing about the infant skeleton, that hope starts to flutter in her chest. More than anything, she’s just wanted to know what happened to her little girl.

Kate’s investigation brings her to both Emma and Angela, for different reasons and in different capacities. Her instinct keeps pestering her to follow leads, even the ones that come across as half-baked, much to the chagrin of her editor who just wishes she would get on with a “real” story. Despite being saddled with a new intern who sees the world with digital eyes first, Kate refuses to get sidelined. As she chips away at the truth, however, even she isn’t prepared for what she discovers.

Author Fiona Barton drew in the world with her debut novel about a woman hiding the secrets of a man accused of a horrific crime, and after the positive response to journalist Kate Waters in the first book Barton decided to make Kate the star of The Child. In Kate Barton finds a plucky protagonist, the kind readers will cling to as she makes her way through the facts and the confusion. Choosing Kate as the main character proves to be a smart move on Barton’s part. Readers will get to spend time in Kate’s world without feeling like they’re treading well-worn ground from Barton’s first book.

Despite the ultimate tragedy of a dead baby, Barton manages to infuse her story with trademark British wit. The one-liners offer relief in the midst of a sad book, but, really, readers won’t mind this brand of sad at all. Barton shows that in a world where monsters exist, heroes and heroines also stand tall to fight against evil forces.

The multi-layered novel seems to be Barton’s writing approach of choice, and it works on every single level. She doesn’t leave a single question unanswered, but she also doesn’t make readers feel like everything has been wrapped up with a neat bow. Life is messy; so is the reality these characters live in. Barton captures both with satisfying precision.

I recommend readers Bookmark The Child.

(I appreciate the advanced review copy from the publisher so that I could post an honest, objective review.)

I read The Widow last year, I really enjoyed it. I was looking forward to reading The Child. I'll admit, I didn't love this one as much. It didn't suck me right away. But, I am glad I stuck with it because I did ultimately enjoy the story. The beginning is a bit slow and doesn't really pick up until the 35% mark, so keep that in mind. I think the story probably could have been a little shorter and it still would have made for a gripping read.

This is definitely a hard book to discuss without spoilers. So, read the synopsis to get a gist of the story. The story is told through flashbacks and in the present through the eyes of several characters. In the beginning, it was pretty unclear how they all fit together. I did manage to figure it out before it was revealed. There were still a couple of surprises, so I wasn't too disappointed.

The book can be read as a stand alone. Even though a couple of the characters from The Widow are in this one, it is completely unrelated. I did feel like I got to know Kate a bit better here. She was a good investigative reporter, but I felt she pushed the boundaries too many time in order to get the story out first. I was conflicted because while she could be sensitive toward those involved, she could easily drop that when she was hot on the trail of her story's bottom line. I was horrified at her glee once the baby was initially identified. But then this is probably my own bias toward reporters coming through.

I do recommend this one. This was an enjoyable mystery and second book by this author. I look forward to seeing what she comes up with next.

*I received a copy from the publisher

Emma is an at-home book editor, riddled with anxiety, cowed by her domineering mother, Jude and her unusual upbringing. She wishes she knew who her father was, and struggles to forgive her mother for kicking her out of the house as a young teenager. Jude never got over the subsequent loss of her charismatic boyfriend, Will, and still blames her daughter for much of their rocky past. Angela is a woman who had a child stolen from her hospital room when she went for a quick shower, many decades ago. Though she bore two other children, she never stopped hoping to find news of Alice. All of these women carry ghosts and long-buried secrets with them. Kate is a newspaper reporter who stumbled on a news clipping about a tiny baby’s skeleton found under a large flower pot in the foundation of an old apartment building that is being torn down. Her insatiable curiosity will lead to many answers to questions she never thought to even ask, as the events of an apartment building and the lives of its tenants unravel in this psychological thriller about lies uncovered by a curious, empathetic reporter. For a recipe for gingerbread cookies, similar books, and discussion questions, visit hub pages.

An unsolved mystery resurfaced when a baby's skeleton was found at a building site.

Along with the skeleton, three main characters emerge too. Kate is a reporter investigating the story. Emma is a nervous adult who became intrigued as well as possessed when she sees the story of the baby. Angela is the mother whose baby disappeared more than 40 years ago never to be found.

THE CHILD took a while to get interesting simply because it was a bit slow, and there were too many characters thrown in. I was lost with so many different characters and couldn't seem to figure out the connection until around half way through the book so don’t give up because it is worth the wait.

As the pages turned and I reached the halfway point, the book started making a connection for me and kept my attention. The mystery became intriguing.

The characters seemed genuine for their roles, but something was odd and different about each of them.

This was my first book by Ms. Barton so I imagine I needed to get used to her writing style and her attention to detail.

There are some good twists to the story as well as some disturbing subjects that are addressed.

All in all, THE CHILD is a good read that will keep you guessing. 4/5

This book was given to me free of charge and without compensation by the publisher and NetGalley in return for an honest review.

When an infant’s skeleton is uncovered at a building site, journalist Kate Waters is eager to get the scoop. The baby may be Alice Irving, who was abducted from her mother’s maternity ward room while her mother, Angela, took a quick shower. However, the age of the baby’s remains is a big question that the police must address, and the timeline may not align with Alice’s disappearance. Thank heavens for DNA testing. Another woman, Emma, who once lived near the excavation site, seems anxious to learn the baby’s identity, but we don’t find out why until later in the book. Jude, Emma’s sometimes estranged mother, also is faithfully following the story of the building site baby as it unfolds. Kate is an empathetic and caring woman who hopes to bring Angela some closure, while at the same time bringing a blockbuster story to print. I enjoyed this book—the writing style, the format, the pace, the characters, and the plot. However, I guessed what had happened about halfway into the book, so that the denouement was pretty much a non-event for me. I think the author could have done a much better job of making the mystery more of a mystery and not telegraphing the outcome plainly. In fact, this has got to be one of the most obvious mysteries I’ve read lately, and the coincidence factor is also extremely high, making the plot somewhat farfetched. That said, I raced through this novel, partly because it’s a page-turner and partly because I was eager to put it behind me so that I could move on to something without a forgone conclusion.

Kate Waters, the London journalist from "The Widow" returns in Fiona Barton's latest, "The Child". The story is not related, so it's not necessary to have read the first book, but those who enjoyed Barton's first book will be pleased to spend time with Kate again. Kate becomes intrigued when a construction project reveals a baby's skeleton. She is determined to find out if the "Building Site Baby" could be "Alice", a newborn baby abducted from a local hospital decades earlier. As a journalist, Kate of course wants the big story, but she also cares about the people she talks to and would love to bring closure, one way or the other, to Alice's mother, Angela. While investigating her story, Kate also becomes an unwilling mentor to a new employee at her newspaper and their interactions are believable and ultimately add to the book.

Part of the story is told from Kate's point of view, but we also see the story from Angela's side and we see how the discovery of the skeleton affects her. In addition, some of the chapters are told by Emma, a troubled woman with a secret, and also her mother, Jude. Their story is just as interesting and will keep the reader guessing how or if their story is related to the story Kate is working on.

I enjoyed this suspenseful book and look forward to reading more by this talented author. Fans of Mary Kubica or Rick Mofina will find this an appealing story.

4.5 stars. A nicely crafted and satisfying mystery. Barton uses four main narrative threads with four different point of view characters: Kate, a middle-aged reporter; Angela, a 60-something woman who has lasting grief rooted in the snatching of her newborn from a hospital decades earlier; Emma, a 40-something book editor with lasting emotional issues from a rocky childhood; and Jude, Emma's mother. These four women, their secrets and scars and needs, are brought to the surface and intensified when the remains of a baby are found on a building site. The titular child at first appears to be the missing Alice, Angela's stolen baby. But as the book progresses, other possibilities arise and the plot becomes more complex and the psychological tolls each of these women has suffered becomes evermore taut and harrowing.

The true protagonist of the book is Kate. In her role as reporter, she is the one that becomes interested in the baby that is found on Howard Street. It is clear immediately that the body is decades old, so it is Kate's own personal drive to make this into a story (and escape the mundane and crass celebrity stories she is inundated with) that propels the press coverage forward and, in turn, contributes to the investigation. More importantly, her doggedness not only helps to reveal the truth, but also gives each of the other women some form of release, empowerment, closure, or justice. In the end, there is a well-constructed twist and resolution (though I thought Kate was a bit slow on the uptake in grasping exactly what was going on), that manages to be gasp-worthy but not so improbable to destroy the grounded nature of the book. And it is the three-dimensional depiction of the four women, of their grief and anger and uncertainty, that makes this more than a run of the mill mystery. Barton gets full marks for well-realized characters and an exciting conclusion that avoided jumping any sharks. Recommended.

I received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.

Towards the end was a bit of a surprise and I was glad it went the way it did. Though out the story we are told through different points of views. The reporter Kate, Emma a young woman who is trying to go on with her life but yet seems to harbor a secret, her mother Jude who needs a man to love her, and Angela whose daughter was taken many years ago when she was a baby.
When a baby's skeleton is found on a building site secrets will become known, a family can possibly be able to put their child to rest, and someone will have to answer to what went on during the 70's and 80's.
Kate who is a reporter will stop at nothing to find the answers that need to be answered and it seems she is very good at job because she got more answers than the DI's did. The plot was steady for me and had me turning the pages to find out what was going on during that time period. The characters were well developed and I found myself getting the feels because of what Emma went through.
If you like thrillers and murder mysteries than pick up this book. This author has a way with pulling you into her world!