' One of the most talented successors to Stephen King' DAILY MAILA psychotic patient with two impossible claims A leading forensic psychiatrist on the edge It's not just Dr Dominick's career that's in danger Forensic psychiatrist Dr Lily Dominick has evaluated the mental states of some of the country's most dangerous psychotics But today's client
- a man with no name accused of the most twisted crime
- struck her as different from the others despite the two impossible claims he made First that he is more than two hundred years old & personally inspired Bram Stoker Mary Shelley & Robert Louis Stevenson in creating the three novels of the nineteenth-century that define the monstrous in the modern imagination Second that he's her father To discover the truth behind her client Dr Dominick must embark on a journey that will threaten her career her sanity & ultimately her life Taut terrifying & impossible to put down The Only Child is perfect for fans of Lauren Beukes & Stephen King Praise for Andrew Pyper' One of the most talented successors to Stephen King'
- DAILY MAIL'A smart thrilling utterly unnerving novel'
- GILLIAN FLYNN author of Gone Girl' Pyper is a master architect of dread'
- LAUREN BEUKES author of The Shining Girls' Genuinely terrifying'
- SJ WATSON author of Before I Go To Sleep' Readers will undoubtedly make comparisons to Stephen King' LIBRARY JOURNAL