The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense.
As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a question: Who is the Building Site Baby?
As Kate investigates, she unearths connections to a crime that rocked the city decades earlier: A newborn baby was stolen from the maternity ward in a local hospital and was never found. Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by the loss.
But there is more to the story, and Kate is drawn-house by house-into the pasts of the people who once lived in this neighborhood that has given up its greatest mystery. And she soon finds herself the keeper of unexpected secrets that erupt in the lives of three women-and torn between what she can and cannot tell...
Read by Mandy Williams, Rosalyn Landor, Jean Gilpin, Katharine McEwan, and Steve West
DIE FRAU
Jean Taylor führt ein ganz normales Leben in einer englischen Kleinstadt: Sie hat ein hübsches Haus und einen netten Ehemann. Glen und sie führen eine gute Ehe.
DER MANN
Dann kommt der Tag, der alles ändert: Sie nennen Glen jetzt das Monster. Er soll etwas Unsagbares getan haben. Und Jeans heile Welt zerbricht.
DIE WITWE
Jetzt liegt Glen auf dem Friedhof, und Jean ist frei. Frei, das Spiel endlich nach eigenen Regeln zu spielen ...
Wie viel willst du wirklich wissen?
DIE FRAU
Jean Taylor führt ein ganz normales Leben in einer englischen Kleinstadt: Sie hat ein hübsches Haus und einen netten Ehemann. Glen und sie führen eine gute Ehe.
DER MANN
Dann kommt der Tag, der alles ändert: Sie nennen Glen jetzt das Monster. Er soll etwas Unsagbares getan haben. Und Jeans heile Welt zerbricht.
DIE WITWE
Jetzt liegt Glen auf dem Friedhof, und Jean ist frei. Frei, das Spiel endlich nach eigenen Regeln zu spielen ...
For fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife.
When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen...
But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore.
There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.
Now there's no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.
The truth-that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…
List of Readers:
'The Mother' read by Jayne Entwistle
'The Detective' read by Nicholas Guy Smith
'The Widow' read by Hannah Curtis
'The Husband' read by Steve West
'The Reporter' read by Mandy Williams
From the Compact Disc edition.
