Recently the
Sunday Times (London) picked its one hundred favorite crime and spy novels published since 1945. Only 28 titles were by women. In response, the
Guardian "asked some of the UK’s best
female crime writers for further suggestions, just to get us up to 50 and even the scales." One title from the list:
Little Face by Sophie Hannah
Hannah’s thriller debut is about a young mother who becomes convinced that, after spending two hours away from her baby, the infant is not hers.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
The Page 69 Test: Little Face.
--Marshal Zeringue