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A review by aliceyy
Little Face: A Zailer and Waterhouse Mystery by Sophie Hannah
4.0
This is so far my favourite out of the books I've read by Sophie Hannah. It's much shorter than most of them, and I think it has a more direct resolution to the mystery.
The premise is very attention grabbing - Alice comes home to find that her baby daughter has disappeared, and instead another baby is in her place. Meanwhile her husband is certain that the baby is in fact their daughter. Other people couldn't be sure either because babies grow so fast so only the parents would know. So Alice tries to get the police to search for her daughter but the police don't take her seriously, until she and the baby both go missing soon after. So then the mysteries are gradually uncovered. I really liked the pace of this book. The only problem would be Alice's absolutely neurotic paranoia that felt a little too repetitive.
As for the characters, I do not like Alice and her husband. Or anyone else really apart from Simon and Charlie (the two main detectives we follow with all of Sophie Hannah's Spilling CID books). Usually I don't think about whether I like them or not that much because they just exist to solve the crime. But in this book their personalities really stood out for me.
The premise is very attention grabbing - Alice comes home to find that her baby daughter has disappeared, and instead another baby is in her place. Meanwhile her husband is certain that the baby is in fact their daughter. Other people couldn't be sure either because babies grow so fast so only the parents would know. So Alice tries to get the police to search for her daughter but the police don't take her seriously, until she and the baby both go missing soon after. So then the mysteries are gradually uncovered. I really liked the pace of this book. The only problem would be Alice's absolutely neurotic paranoia that felt a little too repetitive.
As for the characters, I do not like Alice and her husband. Or anyone else really apart from Simon and Charlie (the two main detectives we follow with all of Sophie Hannah's Spilling CID books). Usually I don't think about whether I like them or not that much because they just exist to solve the crime. But in this book their personalities really stood out for me.