THE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE

‘He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.’

Tess’s number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father Jason means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe.


When she finds a disturbing drawing, dark and menacing, among her
daughter’s brightly coloured paintings, Tess is convinced that Poppy has
witnessed something terrible. Something that her young mind is
struggling to put into words.

But no one will listen. It’s only a child’s drawing, isn’t it?

Tess
will protect Poppy, whatever the price. But when she doesn’t know what,
or who, she is protecting her from, how can she possibly know who to
trust . . . ?

‘What an intriguing, compelling page-turner. I ate it up in two days’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties

'I love Nicci French’s books, and with The Unheard they
are right at the top of their game. Few crime writers can match their
psychological acuity, of their ability to lead a reader through dizzying
plot twists without ever losing pace. It’s an absolute masterclass of
crime writing' Kate Rhodes, author of the Locked-Island Mystery series