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    The Other Child: A Novel of Crime

    By Charlotte Link

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    With more than fifteen million copies of her novels sold in Europe, Charlotte Link makes her chillingly psychological American debut, now in English for the first time  A suspenseful, atmospheric new psychological crime novel from Germany’s most successful living female author
    An old farm, a deserted landscape, a dark secret from times past with fatal consequences for the present. In the tranquil northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues as they struggle to establish a connection between the two victims. Ambitious detective Valerie Almond clings to the all too obvious: a rift within the family of the second victim. But there is far more to the case than first appears, and Valerie is led toward a dark secret inextricably linked to the evacuation of children to Scarborough during World War II. Horrified at her last-minute discovery, Valerie realizes that she may be too late to save the next victim.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9781453298602
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    The Other Child: A Novel of Crime
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    Charlotte Link

    Charlotte Link is one of Europe's bestselling crime writers and has sold more than 15 million novels in Germany alone. Greeted by rave reviews, her atmospheric brand of psychological suspense made The Other Child a massive No. 1 bestseller in Germany. Charlotte has been nominated for the Fiction Category of the German Book Prize and her work has been widely adapted for TV, with the adaptation of The Other Child set for transmission in Germany in 2011.

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    • 4/5
      The villain came as an unlikely surprise, but the real crime was astonishing and unbearable.
    • 4/5
      THE OTHER CHILD is written in 3 time frames.Chronologically they arethe evacuation of children from London to Yorkshire in 1940 because of the bombing, and the subsequent six or so years;an event described in the first chapter, taking place in 1970;the murder of a 17 year old babysitter on her way home in the early hours in mid 2008.There is quite a cast of characters, too many I thought, loosely connected to a farm and a a school. In the style of modern British crime fiction the reader could reasonably expect the threads extending from the time frames to converge somehow. And they do, in a fashion but some of them don't.The synopsis (above) makes you think this is going to be a police procedural with the detective playing a central role, but that isn't how this novel works. The police appear to have few resources at their disposal and to be always playing catch-up. The author plays around with p.o.v. putting the reader in the position of knowing almost more than any other person.In my research I discovered that although writing in German, Charlotte Link has set many of her novels, a number of them saga-like, in Yorkshire or other British locations. As far as I can tell, THE OTHER CHILD, is her first venture into crime fiction, and from a crime-fiction lover's point of view, it is in need of a lot of editing and honing. For my taste there was altogether too much descriptive detail, but then I thought that maybe it illustrates the differences between what I expect and what a German reader expects. Towards the end I found myself skimming, trying to get to the resolution of the murder mystery.However the final solution really comes out of left field and there are few hints in the earlier text apart from the worryings of one of the other characters.I think perhaps I should have enjoyed THE OTHER CHILD more than I did. It combines historical with crime fiction and usually I enjoy that. The first chapter worried me, as I thought it would have significance, but it was a long time coming. The overall length of the book was vexing too.