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Also by Fiona Barton:

Talking to Strangers, July 2025
Trade Paperback
Talking to Strangers, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Local Gone Missing, May 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Local Gone Missing, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Suspect, March 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Suspect, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Child, March 2018
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The Child, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Widow, February 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

THE CHILD
By: Fiona Barton

Berkley
March 2018
On Sale: March 6, 2018
Featuring: Kate Waters
400 pages
ISBN: 110199049X
EAN: 9781101990490
Kindle: B01LZXZET4
Trade Size / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (July 2017)

Mystery Psychological

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 she’s at a loss for answers. 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.

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. 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…