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What She Knew

Gilly MacMillan

"Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son Ben when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel's newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister"--

Book Details

  • Publisher: Turtleback Books
  • Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2015
  • Pages: 512
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Bound for Schoo - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 1.30in - 0.95lb
  • EAN: 9780606385367
  • Categories: Thrillers - PsychologicalThrillers - SuspenseMystery & Detective - General

Praise for this book

What an amazing, gripping, beautifully written debut. WHAT SHE KNEW kept me up late into the night (and scared the life out of me). --Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author"
Tightly focused and fast-paced. You won t rest until you really know what happened. --Lisa Ballantyne, author of The Guilty One"
Every parent s nightmare, handled with intelligence and sensitivity, the novel is also deceptively clever. I found myself racing through to find out what happened. --Rosamund Lupton, international bestselling author of SISTER"
This accomplished, intelligent debut should come with a warning-it s completely addictive. A nail-biting, sleep-depriving, brilliant read. --Saskia Sarginson, author of The Twins"
Heart-in-the-mouth excitement from the start of this electrifyingly good debut an absolute firecracker of a thriller that convinces and captivates from the word go. A must read. --Sunday Mirror"
One of the brightest debuts I have read this year - a visceral, emotionally charged story .heart-wrenchingly well told and expertly constructed, this deserves to stay on the bestseller list until Christmas --The Daily Mail"
A terrific debut --Reader's Digest"
A very clever, tautly plotted page turned from a terrific new writer --Good Housekeeping"
An engaging debut. --Kirkus Reviews"
Macmillan peppers her debut with subtle red herrings and a variety of potential suspects, ratcheting up the tension slowly but oh so deliciously. --Booklist"
A nuanced, completely addictive debut. --People"
Readers will have a tough time putting this one down.--Publishers Weekly"
Gilly Macmillan introduces some smart variations on the [missing child] theme in her debut mystery...Macmillan enlivens the narrative with emails, newspaper headlines, passages from professional journals, even transcripts from Inspector Clemo s sessions with a psychotherapist. But her best move is to include vicious blog posts that go viral. --New York Times Book Review"