The unheard : a novel

Author

Nicci French

Call Number

• MYSTERY FREN (CEN)

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Physical Description

447 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

A single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a bad father, it just hurts to see him enjoying married life with someone else. Still, she owes it to her daughter Poppy to make this arrangement work. But Poppy returns from the weekend tired and withdrawn. And when she shows Tess a crayon drawing, an image so simple and violent that Tess can hardly make sense of it, Poppy can only explain with the words, "He did kill her." Something is wrong. Tess is certain Poppy saw something, or something happened to her, that she's too young to understand. Jason insists the weekend went off without a hitch. Doctors advise that Poppy may be reacting to her parent's separation. And as the days go on, even Popp's disturbing memory seems to fade. But a mother knows her daughter, and Tess is determined to discover the truth. Her search will set off an explosive tempest of dark secrets and buried crimes, and more than one life may be at stake.