Poor Caroline lost a child.

Poor Caroline would never have survived if it weren't for her incredible daughter, Kyrie, who was her tower of strength.

Poor Caroline is lying — and Laura Markwell can prove it, because Incredible Kyrie is her daughter, not Caroline's. And, unlikely as it must have seemed that this lie would ever reach Laura's ears, a chance meeting with a stranger at a conference reveals what Laura half-jokingly dubs 'the attempted daughter theft'.

Then, on the very same night that the lie is exposed, Laura's best friend disappears without trace, and Laura finds herself suspecting Caroline of worse crimes: abduction and possibly murder.

Nobody believes her. And, though Laura doesn't know it yet, nobody will listen to her when the next murder happens either…



Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling author and her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. She writes contemporary psychological thrillers and, at the request of Agatha Christie's family and estate, the new series of Hercule Poirot novels. She lives in Cambridge with her family.