The Suspect
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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4.0 • 148 Ratings
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Publisher Description
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Utterly engrossing . . . I lived inside this book for two days—and I’m still thinking about it. Superb!" Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Featured on Glamour’s “The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)” list
Featured in The Globe and Mail's "Six hot thrillers to get you through the big cold of January"
One of New York Post’s best books of the week
Featured as Marie Claire’s February Interactive Monthly Book Club pick
The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent's worst nightmare...
When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight—desperate, bereft and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared?
Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth—and this time is no exception. But she can't help thinking of her own son, whom she hasn't seen in two years, when he left home to travel.
As the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even when it seems far away, danger can lie closer to home than one might think...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fleet Street star Kate Waters's reporting has helped British police crack some extremely disturbing cases, but she faces what could be her toughest one yet in bestseller Barton's top-shelf third psychological thriller (after 2017's The Child). When the parents of 18-year-old Alexandra O'Connor, who's backpacking in Thailand with an 18-year-old female friend, fail to hear from Alex after a week, they alert the police. Kate's longtime police source, Det. Insp. Bob Sparkes, tells her about the two missing teenage girls, in the hope that Kate will write a story that "might winkle them out of whichever bar they're sitting in." Kate keenly identifies with the concerned parents, since her estranged older son, Jake, has been in Thailand for the past two years after inexplicably dropping out of university. But what starts as a routine story soon proves otherwise, sending Kate and her journalistic frenemies to Thailand in search of answers. The exceedingly twisty tale that follows will test Kate, and her painfully conflicting loyalties, to the limit. Barton's many fans will be rewarded.
Customer Reviews
The suspect
Draggy crime novel told through the dialogue of multiple forgettable characters.... and flashbacks to the event itself (through bloggings or texts by the victims)....and back again like a yo-yo to the arrogant priveliged parents’ stilted dialogue.... ugh.