One suspects that the real sorceress here is Golding, whose writing has given a voice to every wronged mother.' The Guardian's 'The Best Recent Crime and Thrillers' Goodreads' 'Spring's Most Anticipated mysteries & Thrillers'

The Nerd Daily's '14 Debut Authors to Discover This April' Refinery29's 'Best Summer Thrillers 2019'īustle's '10 Horror Retellings Of Your Favorite Classic Stories' Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of I Let You GoĪmazon's Best Books of the Month for May: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense But if she's wrong about what she saw.she'll be making the biggest mistake of her life.Ĭompulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking-and rechecking-your own little ones. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. The infants look like Morgan and Riley-to everyone else. When they're found, something is different about them. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she's imagining things.Ī month passes and one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren's side in a park. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own. And they're right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she's never been more tired in her life.

The anxieties of motherhood take center stage in this 'atmospheric and very creepy' debut psychological thriller that reinvents the changeling myth with the flair of Angela Carter ( Guardian).Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest.

Description A Refinery29 Best Summer Thriller - An Amazon Best Book of the Month

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding