THE TWINS ARE CRYING.
THE TWINS ARE HUNGRY.
LAUREN IS CRYING.
LAUREN IS EXHAUSTED. Behind the hospital curtain, someone is waiting . . .Lauren is alone on the maternity ward with her new-born twins when a terrifying encounter in the middle of the night leaves her convinced someone is trying to steal her children. Lauren, desperate with fear, locks herself and her sons in the bathroom until the police arrive to investigate.
When DS Joanna Harper picks up the list of overnight incidents that have been reported, she expects the usual calls from drunks and wrong numbers. But then a report of an attempted abduction catches her eye. The only thing is that it was flagged as a false alarm just fifteen minutes later.
Harper's superior officer tells her there's no case here, but Harper can't let it go so she visits the hospital anyway. There's nothing on the CCTV. No one believes this woman was ever there. And yet, Lauren claims that she keeps seeing the woman and that her babies are in danger, and soon Harper is sucked into Lauren's spiral of fear. But how far will they go to save children who may not even be in danger?
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(@HQstories, 15 April 2019, 336 pages, ebook, copy from @HQstories via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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This book is not quite what I expected. Judging from the blurb/cover/hype I was expecting an interesting but pretty standard thriller. I got something quite a bit different which was a pleasant surprise. This book is actually more of a horror with a bit of a thriller thrown in inspired by folklore about changelings who steal a child and replace it with an evil twin. I enjoyed the way each chapter opens with snippets of superstition about how to stop fairies from stealing children. I liked the two female leads. Lauren, the mother convinced someone wants to take her children but dismissed as someone hallucinating and Joanna, the cop whose convinced there's grain of truth to Lauren's story. This book offers something a bit different and engrossing.
