Little Face

Alice Fancourt comes home to find that her two-week-old daughter has been swapped for another baby. Her husband, David, insists she is mistaken, and the police, including Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse, suspect postnatal depression. As Alice's isolation deepens and David turns hostile, she begins to fear that the baby's disappearance is tied to the death of his first wife.

Charlie Zailer, Waterhouse's superior, thinks the case is a waste of time, but Waterhouse is drawn to Alice and cannot let it go. Sophie Hannah's debut crime novel and the first Zailer and Waterhouse mystery (Culver Valley crime series) is a psychological thriller built on a question the reader is kept guessing at: is Alice mad, or is she the only person seeing clearly?