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THE CHILD by Fiona BartonBerkley; 6/27/17CBTB Rating: 4.5/5The Verdict: character-driven, immersive suspense. Anyway, she didn’t think anyone would understand why she was still crying all these years later. As our main character Kate delves deeper into the mystery of the Building Site Baby, she becomes privy to the innermost secrets of three women who lived in the neighborhood at the time of the baby's death. I know I would choke if I put anything in my mouth. “Sprinkle a bit of fairy dust on it.”, “It’s like an assembly line in here,” she complained to the Crime Man, sitting opposite. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. “Baby’s Body Found,” it says. She could feel it welling up, thickening her throat so she couldn’t speak, and went to sit on the bed for a minute to postpone it. Nick used to remember—in the early days. While it seems obvious the skeleton is An. Welcome back. “I’m fine, Paul. It was a real page turner. 3.5 I had recently taken a break from thrillers, they had all started to blend together. Start by marking “The Child (Kate Waters, #2)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Fiona Barton made a name for herself with her New York Times -bestselling debut, THE WIDOW (2016). She’d tried to fight it over the years—she never cried, normally. “Anyway,” she said out loud, “it can wait. Readers of Clare Mackintosh, Ruth Ware, and Gilly Macmillan will feel right at home in Fiona Barton’s compelling and immersive second novel. Her search will end up. This year, she was talking to Nick in the kitchen about the day ahead. Now, if she contacted the police, she rarely spoke to a human being. Saint Paul—I call him that when he’s pretending I’m not a burden to him, but he usually shushes me. I would like to thank NetGalley for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review. The reporters who once sat on the Top Table—the newspaper equivalent of the winner’s podium—now perched at the edge of the newsroom, pushed farther and farther towards the exit by the growing ranks of online operatives who wrote twenty-four/seven to fill the hungry maw of rolling news. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Mustn’t be bitter. The paper was wall-to-wall preparations for the London Olympics and she almost missed the paragraph at the bottom of the News in Brief column. “Straight out of school.”. Forensics are having a look but it says here that early indications are it’s been there awhile—could be historic, even. Kate, a journalist, trying to hold on in the new world of internet news, finds something about this discovery that makes her want to find the truth behind the discovery. Thank you for subscribing to CBTB Reviews. Still, an engaging story and I would certainly read this author in the future! Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. They share a common character, and there is a point in this book where that character references the events of that book, so if you plan on reading The Widow at some point, I would read it first because otherwise there are spoilers. I feel like the book focused on the wrong characters and if the focus had been shifted to Will and Jude then the plot would have been so much better. I smile palely at her and she smiles back. THE CHILD has a very different tone than many of the psychological thrillers I've read recently. For fans of Fiona Barton's debut thriller, A satisfying page-turner! “This is mad behavior,” she tells me in my own voice, and I stop. It’s the one I took of him in Rome on our honeymoon, eyes full of love across a table in the Campo dei Fiori. THE CHILD has the hallmark twisty plotting and immersive pacing of the psychological thrillers that continue to take the crime-writing world by storm, with a uniquely emotional twist all its own. “Have you listened to the tape?” a civilian press officer would ask, in the full knowledge that she hadn’t, and she would find herself quickly rerouted to a tinny recorded message that took her through every stolen lawnmower and pub punch-up in the area. “Double macchiato with hazelnut syrup, please,” he said. It has been two years since she has had a big feature and she is intrigued by the article. Then, on the day, she would usually wake up with a headache, would make breakfast, and try to act normally until she was alone. Given the premise, I figured it would also be an emotional read, and it was that. You can scratch the skin, but you never get to the meat of someone else. On my side of the table, I nurse a glass of wine and pretend to listen to his account of the day. (Clare Mackintosh) "I loved this gripping story that kept me guessing to the end. I’ve made sure. “People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I touch the keyboard, and a photo of Paul appears on my screen.

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