The Wrong Mother: the heart-pounding, twisty thriller with a chilling end

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Sally Thorning, part-time environment rescuer and full-time mother, struggles to maintain her sanity and juggle the overwhelming demands of work and home in this superior psychological mystery from British author Hannah ( Little Face But, Sophie Hannah has a way of SHOWING the reader that the police has solved the mysteries and the case and then TELLING how they solved it. It would've been better if it was the other way around. Faye is 39 years old and still single. She longs to have a child of her own but with out any prospects on the horizon it appears her wish for motherhood may never come true. That is until she stumbles upon a mating app. That's right, not a dating app, a mating app where other single people that want children can meet other likeminded people and can co-parent together. Don’t forget to listen to the Lifetime Uncorked Podcastavailable on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts! Knives, added an extra for Ms. Vivica A Fox and Cindy Busby stepping outside of her Hallmark comfort zone.)

Zoey ( Arden Richardson) and Toby ( Cooper Dodson). There's family chemistry between these actors, and this makes the story so much more believable. Nothing here seems forced, and these people seem to really care for one another. The teens in this movie speak like they are from a 1940’s romantic comedy. Teens do not say “Likewise” or “A pleasure” when talking to adults. Hell, adults don’t even say that to adults. Faye is 39 and single. She's terrified she may never have the one thing she always wanted: a child of her own. We all know that having two or more children under five is the very definition of hell on earth, and holding down a job at the same time is a few circles down that hell. But just to make the point, a major section of the beginning of the book is dedicated to Sally's complaints about basically every component of her privileged lifestyle and her disdain for everyone who supports it, especially the childminder whose criticisms of Sally seem quite accurate (and whose later actions come close to saving Sally's life). From the start, she is completely contemptuous and dismissive of her husband, whom she regards as an extra child who has to be fobbed off and kept strictly in the dark about everything. By the end of the book, this has not changed. In fact, all of the fathers in the book are disconnected, ineffectual and utterly incapable of protecting their families in an emergency. The one possible exception is Kombothekra, who is portrayed as possibly a good father but makes notably little impact in solving this case. There is nothing ordinary about this tale that begins with an affair and ends in death. Whatever might seem to be a predictable scenario is soon found to be anything but, and as we struggle to add up the clues, hoping to finally understand what happened, we keep bumping up against the incongruities, the misdirection, until finally we are desperate just to understand what happened and why.This is one of those books that both excels past its genre and stays firmly in it. Hannah never breaks the rules of thriller in this book, but she expands the notion of what a writer of thrillers can do. All the things that you want from a thriller writer are here - tight and intricate plotting, suspense, and unexpected twists and turns. Add to those things compelling characterizations and deft writing and the book is successful.

Also, reviewers complaining about how hard it is to keep the large cast of characters straight, are right. It was hard to tell when they were referring to the two jerk cops versus the nicer ones, because all the detectives seem to have names beginning with S.Unworthiness Level: 7. The men in this were worthless. A grown man was overpowered by a tiny lady, while a lady with a broken arm was able to over power the tiny lady who had a gun. Faye is thirty=nine and single. She's terrified that she may never have the one thing she's always wanted: a child of her own. Then she hears about an on-line co-parenting app for men and women who want to have a baby, but don't want to do it alone. When the app matches her with smooth-talking, wealthy Louis, it feels as though the fates have aligned. But just one year later, Faye's dream has turned into a nightmare. She's on the run from Louis, with baby Jake in tow.