Good Girl, Bad Girl

Product Description From the bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, the writer Stephen King calls an absolute master...with heart and soul, a fiendishly clever suspense novel about a dangerous young woman with a special ability to know when someone is lying--and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive.A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. The nurses at the hospital where she is taken call her Angel Face because she won t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen, or somewhere in between. She doesn t appear on any missing person s file, or match the DNA of any murder victim. Six years later, still unidentified, the same girl is living in a secure children s home with a new name, Evie Cormac, when she initiates a court case demanding the right to be released as an adult. Psychologist Cyrus Haven is sent to interview Evie and decide if she s ready to go free, but Evie Cormac is unlike he s anyone he s ever met. She s damaged, destructive, and self-hating, yet possessed of a gift, or a curse, that makes her both fascinating and dangerous to be with--the ability to tell when someone is lying. Soon he is embroiled in her unique and dangerous world, his life in utmost peril. Cleverly constructed, swiftly paced, and emotionally explosive, Good Girl, Bad Girl is the perfect thrilling summer read from the internationally bestselling author David Baldacci called the real deal. Review "With its interestingly imperfect characters and escalating sense of urgency, this novel will keep you reading as fast as you can." --"Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on The Secrets She Keeps" About the Author Michael Robotham is one of the world's most acclaimed writers of thriller fiction. He began his career as an investigative journalist in Australia and Britain and later became a ghostwriter, collaborating on more than a dozen bestselling autobiographies for pop stars, actors, decorated soldiers, and politicians. His first psychological thriller, Suspect, sold more than a million copies around the world. Lost, his second novel, won the Ned Kelly Award for Australia's best crime novel in 2005--an award he won again in 2008 with Shatter. He has been short-listed twice for the CWA Steel Dagger.