The Child: A Novel

"Like her 2016 smash hit The Widow, Fiona Barton’s new book centers on a cold case involving a little one. This time, the child is a newborn’s skeleton, discovered at London building site. Newspaper journalist Kate Waters is back, looking for a way to impress her boss; The Child unfolds from her perspective and that of two other women, a grieving mother named Angela and an anxiety-stricken young woman, Emma. Barton moves the story along with spliced action-narration, an excellent way of reminding you that no crime affects just one person, and each person it affects has many other people in her life."