The other child

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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. An old farm, a deserted landscape, a dark secret from times past with fatal consequences for the present. In the tranquil 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. 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 by her last-minute discovery, Valerie realizes that she may be too late for action.