Dear Child

11 hrs. 26 min.

Language Russian

Author Romy Hausmann

Narrator Natalia Urbanskaya

Description

International bestseller No. 1. “A supernova star in the thriller genre,” as described by a well-known German weekly. A thriller where unexpected and shocking twists unfold from multiple angles. One day you’ll get out of the cage, daughter… Lena Beck has been missing for fourteen unbearable years. All this time her father has been desperately searching for her, hoping for a miracle. And now it seems it happened. Lena was kidnapped, but now she has managed to escape—and during her escape she was hit by a car. Two and a half hours’ drive from home. That’s what the police assume, though there’s no certainty. But hope remains. Parents rush to the hospital at once—and, to their enormous disappointment, realize that the unconscious injured woman is not their daughter at all. A completely unfamiliar woman.

However, along with her they found a thirteen-year-old girl named Hanna, who insists that she is Lena’s mother, that their family lives in a forest cabin cut off from the world, and that “Mom wanted, in her carelessness, to kill Dad”… Hanna is a dead ringer for Lena as a child. A clone. What does it all mean? The girl is the key to the mystery…

“An electrifying, original, mesmerizing work. Hausmann— a force that must be reckoned with.” — David Baldacci

“A perfect thriller, beautifully written, powerful, convincing.” — Peter James

“An exceptional thriller.” — Arno Strobel

Romy Hausmann was born in the GDR in 1981. At the age of 24, she became head editor of a Munich film company, and after the birth of her son began working as a freelancer in television. “The Favorite Child” is her debut thriller that quickly topped the “Der Spiegel” bestseller list—and soon became a worldwide bestseller. Romy is the winner of the Crime Cologne Award 2019. She lives with her family in an secluded house in the woods near Stuttgart.