โ Scribed by Nova Lee Maier
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Theres only one thing worse than doing the unthinkable: what youre willing to do to hide it.
Helen lives a decent, uncomplicated life. Satisfied in her career, shes raising three happy teenagers, and her family has the most envied house on the street. Admittedly, shes growing just a little disenchanted with her marriage to her workaholic husband, Werner. But thats nothing she cant fix. Then one day Helen comes home to something completely unexpected that threatens to shatter her carefully cultivated world.
For disaffected, young petty criminals Ralf and Brian, it was a scheme to make some cash: a quick home invasion. The targets theyve chosen are Helen and Werner. With Ralf as lookout, Brian disappears into Helen and Werners house. But he never comes out.
And Helens nightmare is just beginning. She cant possibly imagine how much worse it can get or just how far shell need to go to protect her family.
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Nova Lee Maier is a pseudonym of Dutch bestselling author Esther Verhoef, whose psychological thrillers and novels have sold more than 2.5 million copies in the Netherlands. Esther is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NS Publieksprijs (NS Audience Award/Prix Public); the Hebban Crimezone Award; the Diamanten Kogel (Diamond Bullet); and for Mother Dear, the prestigious Gouden Strop (Golden Noose) Award for best crime thriller of the year. She is also the author of Close-Up and Rendezvous, both available in English. For more information, visit www.novaleemaier.com and www.estherverhoef.com.
Jozef van der Voort is a professional translator adapting Dutch, German, and French into English. A Dutch-British dual national, he grew up in southeast England and studied literature and languages in Durham and Sheffield. He has lived and worked in Austria, France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Belgium. As a literary translator, he took part in the Emerging Translators Programme run by New Books in German and was also named runner-up in the 2014 Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize. Mother Dear is his first translated novel.
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