Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney

 

What a crazy scenario. In this London based  psychological fiction Peter Riley is a  father who works from home, taking care of his 2 year old son Theo and dropping him at a daycare center for a few hours a week.  One day on his way to drop Theo at the nursery he notices two men and a woman across the street from his home, staring at his house. Upon return the two men ring his doorbell, get invited in and drop a shocking bomb on him.   Theo is not his son.

Miles Lambert tells Pete they did a DNA check and Theo is his natural born son.  Immediately Pete thinks his wife Maddie cheated with good looking Miles until he learns the babies were switched at a neonatal unit at the hospital.  

Miles and Lucy Lambert have Pete and Maddie's son named David and have been taking care of him as their own for 2 years. So what do you do in this situtation?  Swap your kids so the biological parents have their own kid?  There are so many "what if" questions you'll have as you learn about the children, how they ended up being born too early and thus sent to a special care facility.

This is a bit of a thriller actually as you read the nice accomodating Miles Lambert is really a manipulative psycho depite being so accomodating about sharing time with the children. Lawsuits are filed and secrets are revealed about both couples. 

J.P. Delaney is a British author of psychological suspense.  My first book by this author but I shall look for more for my reading list next year.

Sharing with Joy's Book Blog for British Isles Friday.