n her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skillful as The Girl on the Train and The Guilty One.
In a heartbeat, everything changes
Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry-until Ben vanishes.
Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel's newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister. Inevitably, media attention focuses on Rachel too, and the public's attitude toward her begins to shift from sympathy to suspicion.
As she desperately pieces together the threadbare clues, Rachel realizes that nothing is quite as she imagined it to be, not even her own judgment. And the greatest dangers may lie not in the anonymous strangers of every parent's nightmares, but behind the familiar smiles of those she trusts the most.
Where is Ben? The clock is ticking...
MACMILLAN GILLY
Gilly Macmillan es una autora británica de best-sellers de suspenso psicológico, reconocida internacionalmente desde su debut en 2015 con En busca de Ben What She Knew , que fue nominado a los premios Edgar e ITW Thriller.
Nacida en Swindon, Inglaterra, estudió Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Bristol y en el Courtauld Institute of Art de Londres. Antes de dedicarse a la escritura, trabajó en la revista The Burlington Magazine y en la Hayward Gallery. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a más de 20 idiomas y aparecen frecuentemente en la lista de los más vendidos de The New York Times. Actualmente reside en Bristol.
