Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family.
Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to … Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal — reuniting birth parents with the wrong children.
For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman’s brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been sleeping there?
Jane and Jake are soon on a trail full of twists and turns that takes them deep into the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. When the threatening phone calls start, Jane knows she is on the right track… but with both a killer at large and an infant missing, time is running out…
The Wrong Girl is a riveting novel of familial relationships — both known and unknown— vile greed, senseless murder, and the ultimate in deception. What if you didn’t know the truth about your own family?
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Author Hank Phillippi Ryan is an Emmy-winning Boston reporter. This adds spot-on authenticity – for both character and setting – to Jane Ryland, the smart, complex Boston reporter in this entertaining series. A quest for a birth mother, a murder scene, an empty cradle… You will be swept up from the beginning.
Author Hank Phillippi Ryan once again has readers on the right track to thrilling action and suspense with “The Wrong Girl”. We first met reporter Jane Ryland and detective Jake Brogan in Boston-set “The Other Woman”. The chemistry-in-check still simmers between the two leads as they find themselves repeating a pattern of heading toward a crime …
This was a dive into an exciting, enjoyable, and extremely well-told thriller, paced perfectly from beginning to end!
I enjoyed the 2nd installment of the Jane Ryland series, although I haven’t read the first. I think that other than the back story on the relationship between Jake and Jane, the book easily can be read as a standalone.
In this book, a fellow reporter, Tuck, is searching for her birth mother, but believes the agency provides her with incorrect …
Every book she writes is unique! Great character development…one of my favorite authors….
This the second book in the Jane Ryland series by qward-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Jane gets a tip from a former co-worker who is searching for her birth mother. Jane begins to suspect a highly-respected adoption agency of harboring a secret. She beings to wonder if they are reunited birth parents with the …
Ryan’s characters seem so real, it wouldn’t be a shock to run into them at a coffee shop. She’s a master at crafting mysteries. After this book, I plan to read all she’s written.
This is the second book about reporter Jane Ryland and Boston detective Jake Brogan. This time around, Jane is helping a former co-worker find out if she was sent to the wrong woman while trying to track down her birth mother. Meanwhile, she is also covering a murder that Jake is investigating. A woman is found murdered. Two kids under 3, both …