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The Child Next Door: An unputdownable psychological thriller with a brilliant twist

Written by: Shalini Boland
Narrated by: Katie Villa
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"Oh my. A captivating unputdownable evocative emotional twisted thriller. Oh that ending.... OMG that ending did NOT expect that. It blew me away...." (Read Along With Sue, 5 stars)

"Don’t take my baby."

Kirstie Rawlings is jolted awake by a child crying. Racing upstairs to check on her newborn, she is plunged into every parents’ worst nightmare. She hears an unknown voice in the baby monitor, saying: "Let’s take the child - and go."

Is someone trying to steal her little girl?

In the bedroom, her daughter is safe asleep in her cot. Is the voice coming from a nearby house? But there aren’t any other children living on her quiet country road....

The police don't believe her. And neither does her husband.

Kirstie knows something isn’t right. She thought she could trust her neighbours, now she isn’t sure. As she unravels the secrets of the people living on her street, Kirstie’s perfect life begins to fall apart.

Because someone is hiding a terrible lie. And they will do anything to stop Kirstie uncovering the truth. But is the danger closer to home than she thinks?

From the top 10 best-selling author of The Secret Mother, this completely gripping psychological thriller will make you wonder what really goes on behind closed doors. And will keep you guessing from the first minutes until the final shocking twist.

©2018 Shalini Boland (P)2018 Bookouture
Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Psychological Safety

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"Hooked from the very first page...I finished The Child Next Door in less than a day!.... I was left staring open-mouthed at the last page because I just couldn't believe what I just read...left me both speechless and wanting for more." (It's All About Books)

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I found some of the parts dragged when she kept accusing her neighbor of whatever she thought was going on. I found it a little annoying but the ending made up for it so I can forgive the overkill on focusing on that one person.

it was good.

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i love this author. i read the perfect family and the secret mother and really enjoyed them. not this book as much. nothing teallt happended until three quartera in and it certainly wasnt hard to put down. it had a decent ish ending but i feel there was jist no exciting build up at all!

slow

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Narrator was good as always but the story was just so bland. Definitely not an unputtdownable thriller.

So anticlimactic

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