logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code

Fiona Barton - Community Reviews back

sort by language
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 6 years ago
The Suspect, Fiona Barton, author; Susan Duerden, Fiona Hardingham, Nicholas Guy Smith, Katherine McEwan, narrators. Fiona Barton is a master storyteller. Her mysteries hold the reader’s attention from the first page to the last. This is the third installment in the Kate Waters series and it continu...
carolesrandomlife
carolesrandomlife rated it 6 years ago
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I thought this book was really well done. I have had this book for several years but never got around to reading for one reason or another. When I noticed that a copy of the audiobook was available and it featured a large cast of narrato...
Reclusive Reads
Reclusive Reads rated it 6 years ago
A thoroughly engaging mystery/thriller concerning a missing little girl, the prime suspect who suddenly dies in an accident, and the one person who may hold the key to what truly happened...the suspect's widow.Expertly weaving between the past and the present, through the viewpoints of the grieving ...
charlottelynn
charlottelynn rated it 7 years ago
The main characters of The Child are all intriguing. There is Kate the reporter following up on a story of a baby’s remains found buried during a construction dig. Angela is the mother of a baby that was kidnapped from the hospital just hours after her birth and has never had closure. Emma i...
sensitivemuse
sensitivemuse rated it 7 years ago
***Possible spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned*** For just one split second I almost thought Bella was alive somewhere because a part of me was hoping she was. Nope. What it was, instead was Jeanie’s poor tormented mind and the result of being emotionally manipulated by Glen all this time. You ...
Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 7 years ago
An infant's skeleton is found buried in the back garden of a house being demolished. The story follows several women who have an interest in the mystery of the baby's identity and the circumstances that led to its burial: A still-grieving mother whose baby was snatched from the hospital's maternity ...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
I always give authors at least two chances to impress me. While I did not totally dislike Fiona Barton's debut novel, The Widow, I did feel it dragged substantially in its latter half and didn't really work as a compelling mystery. Its twists and shocks — such as they were — were easy to predict, ma...
debbiekrenzer
debbiekrenzer rated it 8 years ago
Just who is the "Building Site Baby"? The bones of a newborn found when tearing down old houses that had been there for while has everyone talking. Who's baby is it? How long has it been there? Journalist Kate Waters sees the bit post in a competing newspaper and decides that it would make a good hu...
FeeRtheDragon
FeeRtheDragon rated it 8 years ago
The Child by Fiona Barton is a story centered around the finding of an infant's remains. This is a very good story. Full of twists and turns that I did not see coming. This book is very well written, and we hear the story unfold from several points of view. This would have been a five star read, b...
The Avid Reader
The Avid Reader rated it 8 years ago
The story of The Child is told from the prospective of four different women, Kate, Angela, Emma and Jude. The Skeleton of a baby is found on a building site. Who is the building site baby?Angela thinks it is her baby girl Alice who was taken from her hospital room at a maternity hospital several yea...
Need help?