The English author Janice Hallett has a new novel on the way, and if you’ve read The Appeal or The Twyford Code, you’ll know just what a big deal this is.

I read this as an e-book, lots of people read e-books, the title for section 8 gives away something I wish I had not known while reading it. Amanda is determined to find the baby before anyone else, hoping that the exclusive scoop will revive her struggling career.De verschillende verhaallijnen zijn mooi met elkaar verweven, de zaak is boeiend, het psychologische aspect is goed uitgewerkt en door hun berichten leer je de interessante personages steeds beter kennen. I never go into a book trying to put on my detective hat with an old school pipe to suss out what really happened and which characters might be lying to me, and here I felt as though Hallett wanted the reader to construct their own murder board with doodles of characters connected by red string to really get the most enjoyment out of the book. I do think that there is an audience for this, particularly because it's one of the better books I've read with a cult like organization involved in the narrative.

Having skewered the venerable pastimes of amateur dramatics and children’s literature in her previous books, this time round Hallett focuses her perceptive storytelling on the phenomenon of true crime, shining a light on the particularly unsavoury aspects of the hugely popular genre.The whereabouts of these three becoming a mystery that people have obsessed about ever since and as the baby is about to turn eighteen there is renewed interest in the finding them. Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. What are the advantages and disadvantages to you as an author, or to the reader, of telling a story in this way? In fact, all those who contribute to the story appear to be jealously guarding at least some aspect of their involvement in events, whether in the past or the present.