Carrie Kent has everything—star status, fame, money, a luxurious house. Carrie Kent has nothing. Because the body of her teenage son is found by the school gates. The boy was killed with several knife wounds. And Carrie, so ruthless toward the heroes of her TV shows where every kind of shocking story is discussed, herself becomes the object of an investigation. How did it happen that her only son—such an ordinary, prosperous boy—died? And such a terrible death?
The police have only one witness: a strange girl named Dayna, who is very different from the students of that very ordinary school. But Dayna keeps silent—she is terrified to death, and she doesn’t want to cooperate with the police. So who is behind this crime? Who is the killer? And is he—or is anyone else—solely responsible for Max’s death?
Sam Hayes offers the reader an emotional roller coaster: making you feel sympathy for the characters, then shrink with fear, then eagerly follow what’s happening. The author of the novel “My Own Daughter” has written a new story—now about someone else’s son—in which, as is typical for her, she blends a detective plot with an intense psychological drama.