Usually, I appreciate a *show-don't-tell* type of read, feeling engaged in the process of fleshing out a novel. Had this not been so highly recommended by a friend, I don't think I could have pushed on to finish this book because of the painstakingly slow progress and the straight recounting style the author, a former journalist herself, uses to tell this story. 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.
Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by the loss.īut 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.
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?Īs 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. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. The author of the stunning New York Times best seller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense.Īs an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years.
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