Praise for Lisa Ballantyne:
"Grips like a vice."-- "The Daily Mail"
"A moving, insightful novel."-- "The Guardian"
"A page-turner with real emotional depth."-- "The Daily Express"
"One of the most readable, emotionally intense novels of the year."--Richard and Judy
"A moving and sensitive mystery about childhood trauma and its resolution."-- "Booklist"
"'It was a terrible thing to know you were going to die and not be able to do anything to prevent it.' Fingernail-on-a-chalkboard sentences like this one are what make The Innocent One, Lisa Ballantyne's fifth novel -- the follow-up to 2012's The Guilty One -- so good. Fashioning memorable suspense out of a well-known case is incredibly difficult, but Ballantyne makes it look easy."-- "The New York Times Book Review"
"A character-driven, domestic crime novel. Through juxtaposing the choices of two emotionally disturbed boys, Ballantyne sensitively explores themes of rejection, abuse, and forgiveness."-- "Booklist"