Mother May I: 'Brilliantly Unnerving' the Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Aug 4, 2022 - Family & Relationships - 336 pages
'Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month 'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street JournalIt's every mother's worst nightmare. 'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME. Tell no one.Do not call the police. Do not call your husband. Be at your house by 5:15 PM. Or he's gone for good...'To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime, caught up in a tangled web of secrets that threatens to destroy the perfect life she has built.Mother May I is a pulse-racing, heart-pounding thriller that will have you turning the pages in the race to save Bree's baby, and find the kidnapper.Praise for Joshilyn Jackson'Jackson writes the kind of book that will set even the most blameless on edge, leaving us to wonder who might know our imperfect histories' Christina Dalcher'A master of domestic suspense' Entertainment Weekly'Wonderful - suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' Lee Child

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About the author (2022)

Joshilyn Jackson graduated with honors from Georgia State with a degree in English literature. After earning her Master's in English at the University of Illinois in Chicago, she taught university-level English. Jackson's short fiction has been published in many literary magazines and anthologies, and plays that she has written have been produced in Chicago and Atlanta. Gods in Alabama, Jackson's first book, won SIBA's Novel of the Year award in 2005 and was a #1 BookSense pick. Between, Georgia was also a #1 BookSense pick, which gave Jackson the distinction of being the first author to receive that status in two consecutive years. Jackson also won the Listen Up award from Publisher's Weekly for her audio book reading. Her newest book is entitled, Backseat Saints.