Psychological thriller to Avon

Avon Books will publish a debut psychological thriller about a woman whose baby is taken. Senior commissioning editor Helen Huthwaite acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Little Girl Gone by Alexandra Burt from Laura Longrigg at MBA Literary Agents in a one-book deal, with an option of a second book once complete. Little Girl Gone follows Estelle Paradise, who fails to report her baby missing when the child is taken from her crib. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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