The Stolen Child
(2013)(Beautiful Child)
(The second book in the DCI Sara Hoyland Mystery series)A novel by David Menon
What kind of mother leaves her son in an orphanage because her new husband doesn't want to bring up another man's child?
What kind of man expects his new wife to do that?
What kind of couple go on to have two children and bring them up in a loving, safe middle class home without a thought for the child who'd been left behind?
And what kind of priest stands back and allows the child to be transported to the other side of the world, by agreement of the Catholic Church and the British and Australian governments, to a very uncertain future?
Sean Patrick O'Brien knows what its like to be abandoned. He also knows what its like to have to try and live with it when you know your family is probably playing happy families somewhere else without you.
When a series of murders affects the associates of a church-going outwardly respectable Cheshire family it's hard to figure out what the connection is. And when DCI Sara Hoyland starts to work it out she's faced with the impossible notion of someone being able to commit murder from inside a prison. The idea is preposterous.
Or is it?
And if it isn't then who would have the same desire for revenge?
Father Brendan O'Farrell knew all those years ago that the trade in abandoned children was wrong but was powerless to stop it. Or did he have more personal reasons for not having intervened?
And when the truth finally does come out, what will be left of the lives of himself and a respectable Cheshire family, now tarnished by murder, who knew nothing of their mother's past?
Genre: Mystery
What kind of man expects his new wife to do that?
What kind of couple go on to have two children and bring them up in a loving, safe middle class home without a thought for the child who'd been left behind?
And what kind of priest stands back and allows the child to be transported to the other side of the world, by agreement of the Catholic Church and the British and Australian governments, to a very uncertain future?
Sean Patrick O'Brien knows what its like to be abandoned. He also knows what its like to have to try and live with it when you know your family is probably playing happy families somewhere else without you.
When a series of murders affects the associates of a church-going outwardly respectable Cheshire family it's hard to figure out what the connection is. And when DCI Sara Hoyland starts to work it out she's faced with the impossible notion of someone being able to commit murder from inside a prison. The idea is preposterous.
Or is it?
And if it isn't then who would have the same desire for revenge?
Father Brendan O'Farrell knew all those years ago that the trade in abandoned children was wrong but was powerless to stop it. Or did he have more personal reasons for not having intervened?
And when the truth finally does come out, what will be left of the lives of himself and a respectable Cheshire family, now tarnished by murder, who knew nothing of their mother's past?
Genre: Mystery
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