From the Cradle

When Helen and Sean Phillips went out for their first date night in weeks, they left their three-year-old daughter Frankie in the care of her half-sister, fifteen-year-old Alice, who is old enough to take care of her. But for Helen, it’s not an easy decision to leave them alone that night. And she’s not worried for no reason. Two sets of parents within three miles of their house no longer heard the giggles of their babies. In the past month two small children had been abducted in the area, south-west London. Liam McConnell and Izzy Hartley had vanished into thin air within two days of one another. And Helen’s worst fear came true when they returned home to find Frankie missing.

From the Cradle by Mark Edwards and Louise Voss is a suspenseful read and keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. It is the best book to date by the writing duo who has written several bestsellers together. After Sean and Helen called the police, Detective Inspector Patrick Lennon of the Metropolitan Police’s Murder Investigations Team finds himself in an unenviable position with one more child missing, and the police nowhere near making a breakthrough in the earlier two cases. He faces a daunting task and a race against time when a body is recovered from a local park.

Edwards and Voss crafted an incredibly absorbing, fast-paced police procedural with a touch of psychological thriller which will satisfy readers’ craving for a good read. This novel is the fifth collaboration between the two authors which follows the earlier four hugely successful novels Killing Cupid, Catch Your Death, All Fall Down and Forward Slash. What is remarkable about Edwards and Voss is that they are the first UK self-published authors to reach the #1 and #2 spots simultaneously way back in 2011, and in the process were dubbed ‘internet publishing sensations.’