Finding Lucy

Alison Brown was somewhat of a loner and when her mother died she was at a loss and lonely. When visiting her mother's grave she came across the grave of a baby girl named Lucy Brown aged two. Alison came up with an elaborate plan of abducting a little girl, renaming her and moving to Newcastle and......more

It's rare we come across a completely original story in the crime genre and i'm afraid this is another which makes use of the missing/abducted child trope. However, this book views it from a wholly different angle to many others, namely by looking at it from the perpetrators perspective. If you enjo......more

After Alison's mother dies, she's alone in the world. The grief over her mother's death and her desperate longing for a child prompts her to do the unthinkable. She considered the conventional means of having a child, but can't stand the thought of being with a man. She looked into adoption but was......more

Allison and her mother lived a quiet life, isolated, very few friends. Her mother did not encourage her to mix with young people, so when she died Allison was quite alone. But Allison longs for a child and carefully prepares a diabolic plan to snatch a child. She does this so successfully that people......more

Interesting premise executed in a very ordinary sort of way. There was no suspense, no plot twists and turns at all really! Oddly enough I still found it fairly gripping and read it through in one go, I was just so interested by the idea and curious to know how it would end up - which was, as it tur......more