Her Sister’s Child – Book Review

She rolls over and reaches for her instinctively: her baby. Her hand hits air and flaps redundantly. She stumbles out of bed and switches on the light. But this only confirms it. The baby is gone. Someone has taken her.

Sixteen years ago, Lizzie Armitage woke to find her newborn baby gone. Just days later, Lizzie was dead.

Her sister Paula swore she would do everything she could to find the child. If she hadn’t promised to keep Lizzie’s pregnancy secret, maybe the baby wouldn’t have disappeared. And maybe Lizzie would still be alive. But, in nearly a decade, Paula’s never found any trace. Until now…

When Paula bumps into an old friend from the past, she realises she wasn’t the only one who knew about her sister’s child. Someone knows what happened that day. Someone knows where Lizzie’s baby went.

But can Paula find out the truth before another family is ripped apart?

No. of pages:- 351 pages

Date published :- 26th November 2020

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Thank You Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC! This review is strictly based on my honest opinion.

Paula Armitage along with Johnny finds that her sister’s child has been missing and they both try to find the child. Meanwhile, a girl named Charlie was pregnant and wants to keep the baby though her parents want her to abort the baby.

To me, I do like the plot line. The plot was really intriguing and gripping and has you guessed till the end. However, at some points, I was confused in some of the pages. The story is told from Paula, Charlie and a woman named Marian’s perspectives and there’s a change in the time line from 2003 to the Present. There were also too many characters in the book so I was left confused about the characters. However, the good thing is, it was a good thriller, quiet fast paced and is intriguing–worth four stars!

I’ve been a fan of crime writing and thrillers since I was in my teens, and I still love reading new crime fiction.

I studied criminal law and worked for several years as a paralegal on serious crime cases including rape, murder and fraud. This meant my working day involved liaising with police detectives and watching them solve cases. It was only some years later, after a stint writing for TV drama, that I realised my experience working in crime qualified me to write police procedurals myself.

After a few attempts at coming up with characters, Detectives Rachel Prince and Mark Brickall came into being, and their first three cases will all be published in 2018. There’ll be more of them to come in 2019, so watch this space!