Mother May I
'Brilliantly unnerving' The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
'Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month
'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian
'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street Journal
It's every mother's worst nightmare.
'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME.
Tell no one.
Do not call the police.
Do not call your husband.
Be at your house by 5:15 PM.
Or he's gone for good...'
To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime, caught up in a tangled web of secrets that threatens to destroy the perfect life she has built.
Mother May I is a pulse-racing, heart-pounding thriller that will have you turning the pages in the race to save Bree's baby, and find the kidnapper.
Praise for Joshilyn Jackson
'Jackson writes the kind of book that will set even the most blameless on edge, leaving us to wonder who might know our imperfect histories' Christina Dalcher
'A master of domestic suspense' Entertainment Weekly
'Wonderful – suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' Lee Child
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bree Cabbat, the narrator of this gripping domestic thriller from bestseller Jackson (Never Have I Ever), is luxuriating in a life beyond anything she imagined growing up poor in the Georgia sticks—until her infant son is snatched at a musical performance she brings him to at the exclusive Atlanta private school her two teenage daughters attend. After demanding that Bree not contact either law enforcement or husband Trey, a wealthy and socially prominent attorney who's out of town on business, the kidnapper makes it clear she's seeking not money but to settle some sort of personal score. When following the woman's initial instructions goes horrifically wrong, a desperate Bree reaches out for help to a lifelong friend, a former Atlanta detective turned investigator at Trey's firm. As the intrepid, sympathetic pair scramble to suss out the kidnapper's identity, they make some extremely disturbing discoveries that could blow up the life Bree loves. A few of the final twists come off as far-fetched, but the dark secret at the novel's heart rings all too true. Jackson knows how to ratchet up the suspense.
