Alice Feeney plays with your perception of good and bad people in a mother-daughter thriller. Eighty-year-old Edith is busy hatching her escape plan from the nursing home. Edith befriends Patience, a young employee whose kindness hides a host of lies about herself. Is Edith's daughter Clio as evil as her mother makes her out to be? Then prison librarian Frankie arranges a therapy session with Clio but with uliterior motives in her search for her runaway daughter. Slowly, the connections between the four women become clear but the question is, how does this all tie to a baby stolen from a stroller decades earlier?

Alice Feeney has penned another intriguing thriller that hooks you from the start. Good Bad Girl opens with the kidnapping of a baby and then leaves you wondering how this event connects to the larger narrative. With four main characters each with her own backstories, the plot is a bit complicated at first. But once you settle into this mother-daughter story, your glued to a mystery full of predictable twists with clever spins that you don't see coming.