The Winter Foundlings
Alice Quentin 3
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
'One of the most absorbing books I've read in a long time' MEL SHERRATT
'An enjoyably scary chiller' SUNDAY MIRROR
'The pace never slackens from the first page to the last' RACHEL ABBOTT
TO FIND A CHILD, SHE MUST BEFRIEND A KILLER . . .
Ella Williams is ten years old. She loves her granddad and her sister and her shiny new red shoes.
She's just been abducted by a killer - someone who kidnaps young girls, holds them for a few weeks then returns their bodies clothed in white foundling dresses.
The crimes are clearly linked to notorious child murderer Louis Kinsella, locked away in a high-security hospital. But is it a copycat? Or is he giving someone direct orders from behind bars?
To save Ella's life, psychologist Alice Quentin must form a relationship with Kinsella. But he is slow to give up his secrets, and all the while, time is running out...
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'I can honestly say this is one if the best books I have read in a long long time' 5*
'Really really brilliant. A completely gripping psychological serial killer thriller mystery tale that keeps you on the very tips of your toes from page one and still guessing to the very last page' 5*
'Loved this book! Kate Rhodes just gets better and better!' 5*
'After thoroughly enjoying the first two Alice Quentin stories I was really looking forward to this - and it didn't disappoint. Gripping, pacey and intelligent.' 5*
'I would love to know why I have not heard of Kate Rhodes because I have just finished her latest crime and psychological thriller and oh wow what a stunning read. This is one of the most intense, compelling and absolutely convincing read I have had in a while' 5*
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After a harrowing experience helping to catch a serial slayer in 2014's A Killing of Angels, the last thing London forensic psychologist Alice Quentin wants is another high-profile police case especially since she seems to have blown her chance to kindle a relationship with sexy Det. Don Burns. But when a fourth girl, 10-year-old Ella Williams, is abducted from North London in a string of crimes that may be following in the bloody footsteps of notorious child murderer Louis Kinsella, Alice can't refuse Burns's appeal for help particularly since Kinsella happens to be imprisoned at Northwood, the forbidding psychiatric prison where she has just started a research sabbatical. She has no inkling of the nightmare that awaits. With the clock ticking before Ella becomes the next corpse, the surprisingly vulnerable Alice finds herself forced to match wits with this psychotic master manipulator. Rhodes spins an atmospheric and suspenseful tale until an implausible climax that many readers will see coming.
