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Paper Dolls
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Lisa Bradley
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Journalism
This book is for you if you're into...
- Media ethics and the fallout from split-second editorial choices
- Creeping suspense with unsettling threats and mysterious paper dolls
- Stories where past mistakes resurface to threaten everything now
From Little Stack
When Leah was editor of her local paper, two teenage girls went missing. Hope was middle-class and white, from a perfect nuclear family. Tilly was a black girl from a council estate – and a habitual runaway. Leah made the decision to put Hope on the front page, and she was found the next day. Tilly got a small mention on page 18, and was never seen again. Sixteen years on, strange things begin to happen and Leah's past comes back to haunt her… she wants to protect her son and her family. But do they believe what she tells them?
This is one of those books you want to reread as soon as you finish to see if you can spot the things you missed out on before! Superb, relatable characters and such a mysterious backstory.
YOU HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN. THEY HAVEN'T FORGIVEN.
Leah Wallace has just achieved her dream of becoming editor at a regional paper. On her first day a 15-year-old girl, Hope Hooper-Smith, is reported missing. The police fear that she has been abducted. Hours later, another teenage girl goes missing. But this girl, Tilly Bowers, is from a troubled background and is a habitual runaway. Leah decides to run the Hope's abduction on the front page, while Tilly only gets a small mention on page eighteen.
The next day, Hope is found unharmed at a train station. But Tilly is never seen or heard from again.
Sixteen years later, a TV documentary questions Leah's decision not to give Tilly's case immediate coverage, implying that she could have cost Tilly her life, and Leah starts receiving death threats online. Then mysterious paper dolls begin appearing, cut from the newspapers Leah used to edit, and she suspects that an intruder has been in the house. Leah becomes convinced that someone wants to punish her for the part she played in Tilly's disappearance. But just how far will they go to make her pay?
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