Please take care of my baby. But don’t try to find me. You’ll put him in danger. x
Profiler and therapist Kes Lashibi is shocked when she finds a baby on the backseat of her car, with an unsigned note asking her to take care of him.
Kes has a pretty good idea who the mother is – Brandee, a popular social media star with a troubled background, who once lived in Kes’s house. Recently, the seemingly bright and bubbly Brandee’s videos changed in tone before she completely dropped out of the limelight. Kes is beginning to understand why.
And if the internet rumours are true, Brandee’s life could be in real danger.
Kes is torn.
Should she simply take care of the baby, as she’s been asked to do, and wait to hear from his mother?
Or should she put the baby and her whole family at risk by using – less than legal – contacts from her previous job to save this young woman?
Time is running out for Brandee. Can Kes find her before it’s too late?
This is the stunning new emotional thriller from The Queen Of The Big Reveal.
Book Info: 382 pages. First published 15 Feb 2024 by Headline
My Thoughts:
It’s been ages since I have read a Dorothy Koomson book, despite have ALL her back catalogue on my kindle, and having been invited to the launch party of Every Smile You Fake earlier this year, I finally managed to start this book.
This is the story of Kez, she is now a therapist and her previous role was as a criminal profiler. After a book event she returns to her car to find a baby in the backseat with a note asking her to take care of the baby. Almost immediately Kez realises she knows who the mother is. It’s Brandee (two E’s) a young women who lived with Kez and her family and is now missing.
Despite Brandee’s request to not coming looking for her, Kez is NOT someone who does what she’s told or expected to do. She will ALWAYS do what she thinks it the right thing regardless of her own safety.
The book has 2 main narrators; Kez who does NOT suffer fools gladly or take any sh*t and Brandee who is sharing her side of the story through Social Media and Videos.
It’s refreshing to find a female, middle-aged character who is strong, intelligent and likeable. Kez’s relationship with her husband Jeb displays her vulnerable side and her relationship with her step-son Moe and foster daughter Brandee show her compassion and unconditional love, but it’s her ability to read people that make her such a force to be reckoned with.
The story covers some very topical issues which I don’t want to give away, but needless to say it’s an original and twisty and clever story which I thoroughly enjoyed and definitely recommend.
