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*THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER*'Gripping and moving'Erin Kelly'You won't want to eat, sleep or blink'Tammy CohenAn unexpected visitor.Dr Cat Lupo aches for another child, despite the psychosis which marked her first pregnancy. So when Ruby Winter, a small girl in need of help, arrives in the middle of the night, it seems like fate.A devastating secret.But as the events behind Ruby's arrival emerge - her mother's death, her connection to Cat - Cat questions whether her decision to help Ruby has put her own daughter at risk.Do we get the children we deserve?Cat's research tells her there's no such thing as evil. Her history tells her she's paranoid. But her instincts tell her different. And as the police fight to control a sudden spate of riots raging across the capital, Cat faces a race against time of her own .
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Melanie McGrath is an award-winning, bestselling writer of fiction and narrative nonfiction. She has written numerous works of narrative social history on topics as varied as the early internet, the Arctic and the East End of London and is the author of the Edie Kiglatuk series of Arctic mysteries and several stand alone psychological thrillers, including Two Wrongs, The Guilty Party and Give Me The Child. Mel has been shortlisted for the Historical Writers 'Association Gold Crown, the Andre Simon Food Book Award, the Fortnum and Mason Food Book award, the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and the James Tait Black Award for Biography. Her crime novels have been voted Best Crime Novel of the Year in The Guardian, The Times and The Financial Times. She is the recipient of the John Llewelyn Rhys Award for Best British and Commonwealth Writer under 35. Her books are translated into 20 languages and have been bestsellers in the USA, Canada, Australia, France, Scandinavia and the UK. Additionally, she has written for The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Conde Nast Traveller and Aeon, among others. She was a presenter of Trailblazers, an adventure travel series for The Discovery Channel. Her Arctic mysteries are currently in development for TV in Canada/USA.McGrath has lived in Germany, Nicaragua and the US and is currently based in London, where she is part way through her certification to qualify as an integrative psychotherapist.
