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Overview

"This book's triumph is that it is not just a perfectly executed psychological thriller, but a pertinent meditation on society itself." -The Guardian

Television producer Fliss Benson is surprised to discover that her superstar boss, Laurie Nattrass, is stepping down-and that she is to take over his documentary about crib-death mothers wrongly accused of murder. Thanks to Nattrass's advocacy, three women are now free, while the doctor who testified against them is under investigation for misconduct. Then one of the mothers is found dead. In her pocket is a card with sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four-exactly like the anonymous card Fliss has just received in the mail. A masterful tale of psychological suspense, The Cradle in the Grave will transfix Sophie Hannah's fast-growing audience.

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Hannah focuses on the dangerous gray area between guilt and innocence in her provocative fifth mystery featuring Det. Sgt. Charlotte "Charlie" Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse of the Culver Valley police (after The Dead Lie Down). When TV producer Felicity "Fliss" Benson receives an anonymous card with 16 numbers on it, she's puzzled, but she soon has bigger worries. Her boss, famed investigative journalist Laurence "Laurie" Nattrass, suddenly puts her in charge of his BBC documentary on the "miscarriages of justice" surrounding women falsely accused of murdering their children. One of the documentary subjects is Helen Yardley, convicted of killing her two infant sons, whom she claimed were victims of crib death. When Helen, whose conviction was later overturned, is murdered and an identical number card is found on her body, Fliss fears the killer is targeting those connected to the documentary. Hannah merges her myriad story lines with practiced ease. 10-city author tour. (Sept.)
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Within the span of a week, a crazed killer has gripped London by attacking mothers who have been convicted—and acquitted—in a sensationalist rash of crib death cases. One of the victims is known for her heartrending memoir and is also the centerpiece of an in-progress TV documentary. A puzzle card is left on her body; the same card is mailed to the TV producers. Fliss Benson, the producer in charge of the project, becomes pivotal to the case, running somewhat parallel with the intrepid detectives Simon Waterhouse, Sam Kombothekra, and Charlie Zailer (The Dead Lie Down). VERDICT Hannah's frenetically paced psychological thriller is a searing indictment of our judicial system and the media's role in fueling collective hysteria. Known for combining her police procedurals with woman-in-peril suspense novels, she again succeeds in scaring our shoes off. Readalikes to consider would be Nicci French and Joy Fielding.
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What happens after the jury gets it wrong. Or does it?

For reasons he declines to illuminate, Laurie Nattrass suddenly leaves Binary Star Productions and hands over the documentary he's been working on for several years to Fliss Benson, who would rather not be saddled with it. The feature focuses on the misguided testimony of pathologist Judith Duffy, which sent two woman to prison for murdering their children, and Laurie's investigation, which got the doctor stricken from the medical rolls, set the mothers free, and led to the acquittal of another mother up on the same charges. Not only does the documentary bring up a tragedy within Fliss' family, but two of the mothers are now having doubts about participating. Then one of them is attacked, another is murdered, and someone leaves cards with 16 identical numbers arranged in four rows of four at the crime scenes and sends one to Fliss. DI Gil Proust, DC Simon Waterhouse and his partner Charlie Zailer (The Truth-Teller's Lie,2010, etc.) step in to determine whether a vigilante has decided that the juries were right the first time around in determining that these were not unassisted crib deaths, a conclusion shared by the husband of one of the mothers. A tell-all memoir holds clues, but before they can be deciphered, more complications arise.

Hannah, who understands every neurotic twitch, blemish and lie a person is capable of, is just the thing for those who followed the Casey Anthony murder trial.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143119944
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/30/2011
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 239,830
  • Product dimensions: 5.34 (w) x 8.02 (h) x 1.07 (d)

Meet the Author

Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah, an internationally bestselling novelist, is also an award-winning poet. Her story “The Octopus Nest” won first prize in the Daphne du Maurier Festival short story competition. She lives in Yorkshire, England, with her husband and two children.

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  • Posted September 21, 2011

    More of the same

    If you've ever read a Sophie Hannah psychological thriller then you know what you're going to get. Having read all previously released novels by the author I was only mildly impressed. It's much the same thing of reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. You know the formula, so once you've read one, you know what to expect in the next. That is my biggest complaint about the novel. It follows the same cookie cutter format she's used in the other works. The story is mildly interesting. I found the arc to be believable, but I knew who did it after about the first third of the book. All I wanted to know was why and after four hundred pages, I didn't even care about that.
    I don't mind using a formula, but use your talents to trick me into believing it's something new and exciting.

    If this is your first time reading her books, then I'll still tell you to pick up the book and enjoy. It's a good book and well written, but after reading the others, it's a bit stale and underwhelming.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 21, 2011

    Another re-release (A Room Swept White)...Sophie give us something new, we can wait.

    After reading the Wrong Mother I was hooked on Sophie Hannah. Little Face wasn't a favorite, but The Dead Lie Down and some of the other books made up for it. Knowing how much I liked the author I made a mass purchase of books, a costly mistake. I didn't realize Sophie Hannah's tendency to release the same book under different titles. Here again, I was excited to see something new, but am extremely disappointed to learn I've already read it (A Room Swept White, published in 2010). We're in a global world, a release in the UK is still sold in the US both online and in stores so there is no need to release the same book in the US under a different title a year later. Give us something new. We can wait. A good read is worth it.

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    Posted April 7, 2012

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    A poor read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 10, 2012

    Buy if you are fan. A little hard to follow but that wont stop you from being up all night reading.

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  • Posted October 11, 2011

    Horrible - a must NOT read

    This book was awful. There were way too many characters to keep track of and nothing about any of the supporting characters stuck out so that I could keep track of them. I felt as though I needed to take notes to keep track as they all blended together. The plot was all over the place. It was poorly written and clearly a smattering of short stories/ideas thrown into one book. There were too many loose ends in the end and zero point. I can usually read anything and be entertained, but this book proved to be the exception.

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