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1 online resource (364 pages) |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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When an infant's skeleton is discovered in a demolished house, Kate Waters strives to uncover the baby's identity and unearths links to a decades-old kidnapping, but she is torn between helping the police and revealing her sources. |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Journalists -- Fiction.
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Missing children -- Fiction.
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Kidnapping -- Fiction.
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Infants -- Death -- Fiction.
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Fiction. |
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Suspense. |
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Thriller. |
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Infants -- Death. |
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Journalists. |
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Kidnapping. |
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Missing children. |
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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England -- London. |
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Suspense fiction.
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Mystery Fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Electronic books. |
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Fiction.
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Downloadable books.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Barton, Fiona. Child First edition. New York : Berkley, 2017 9781101990483 (DLC) 2016055096 (OCoLC)959535967 |
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9781101990506 : $48.00 |
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1101990503 : $48.00 |
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