The Perfect Mother is a debut novel from non-fiction author Aimee Molloy, and it comes with a lot of hype attached, as it’s already being turned into a movie by Sony, starring Scandal’s Kerry Washington. The story taps into every new parent’s worst fear – Winnie has left her six-week-old baby with a babysitter for the first time ever, only for the baby to have been kidnapped from a crib. What follows is a set of intense investigations by the police, by Winnie herself and by a story-hungry media. The book has drawn apt comparisons to Liane Moriarty, but Molloy is willing to go much darker than Moriarty ever does, and to get there much more quickly.