James and Anna Buck live in a small flat, next door to the garage where James works. One day, some months before, James had popped out to buy some fireworks and left the front door open. Their little son, Daniel, wandered outside and went missing
Five footprints are the only sign that four-year-old Daniel Buck was ever here. And now they are all his mother has left. Every day, Anna Buck guards the little prints in the cement. Polishing them to a shine. Keeping them safe. Spiraling towards insanity.
When a flyer comes through her door, advertising a psychic, Richard Latham, Anna feels that he could be her last hope. Anna is desperate for hope, which she’s not getting from the police, or her husband James. DCI John Marvel knows Richard Latham. He was used in another case of a missing child – that of twelve year old Edie Evans – a space obsessed tomboy who went missing while riding her bike. The case of missing Edie Evans was never solved. DCI John Marvel believes that Richard Latham is a fake and not a real "shut eye" at all, but when a woman tells Anna Buck that she has found a true psychic, she grasps at it. Maybe he can tell her what happened to her son.
But when she meets the psychic, what she gets is not at all what she suspected.
The Shut Eye is a riveting read from one of our finest crime writers. Belinda Bauer's six award-winning novels have been translated into twenty-one languages. The Shut Eye is her fourth novel to be published in North America.
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