That’s ok though, because shes goes through the rest of the novel sounding manic all the time, calling up her ex-husband at all hours of the night after he tells her for the millionth time to leave him alone and spouting off her theories that don’t make any sense because she actually hasn’t thought through what they mean. The only reason they have to suspect her is from an incident a few years ago that never led to charges being pressed at all.

The fact that she’s suspected from the get-go feels like a fake drama build. Really crazy – kidnapping a child from a town three hours away…and then calling the police to report it. What promised to be a thrilling psychological thriller read unfortunately turned in to a predictable trek through well-worn territory – a woman reeling from the loss of her child, left by her husband when she’s unable to move on, suspected of doing something crazy.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review. Tessa tries to juggle the guilty verdict piled upon her by the press, the realization that she and her ex-husband will never reconcile, and finding out the truth about how exactly this young boy came to be in her house.

Tessa calls the police who return the young boy to his father, and then begin suspecting Tessa of kidnapping. He says he was brought there by an angel. Synopsis: Still grieving the death of her son more than two years previous, the death of her daughter when she was born, and being left by her husband after her son’s death, Tessa returns home to find a young boy in her kitchen who insists on calling her mummy.

The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland