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Soho Crime
May 2017
On Sale: May 2, 2017
304 pages
ISBN: 161695602X
EAN: 9781616956028
Kindle: B01JWE1RGU
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Thriller Psychological | Suspense
Twisty yet brimming with the emotional powerof
beautifully drawn characters, the solo debut by the coauthor
of The Boy in the Suitcase is a brooding and
atmospheric thriller that sets a young mother on a collision
course with her past in order to save her son's future. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was
seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother.
She doesn’t remember anything about that night or her
childhood before it—but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced
panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours at
a time, sometimes days. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych
ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her
by the state and placed with a foster family. Desperate not
to lose her son, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside
town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her
grandmother’s abandoned house is in grave disrepair, but she
can live there for free until she can figure out how to
convince social services that despite everything, she is the
best parent for her child. But being back in the small town forces Ella to confront the
demons of her childhood—the monsters her memory has tried so
hard to obscure. What really happened that night her mother
died? Was her grandmother right—was Ella’s father unjustly
convicted? What other secrets were her parents hiding from
each other? If Ella can start to remember, maybe her scars
will begin to heal—or maybe the truth will put her in even
greater danger.
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