Good Bad Girl: A Novel

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Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.


Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.

Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.

Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door…and their intentions aren’t good.

With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.

In the style of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors, Good Bad Girl is a thriller in which nobody can be trusted and the twists come fast and furious.

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Published Aug 29, 2023

320 pages

Average rating: 6.62

175 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

boyleschris
Jun 16, 2024
Barbara's pick. 👍🏻 A psychological thriller/murder mystery that starts with a stolen baby.
Margie Pettersen
Oct 27, 2025
8/10 stars
This was a good mystery/thriller. The main characters are Edith, a care home resident, her daughter, Chloe, and Patience, a young woman who works at the care home. When Joy, the surly caretaker of the care home is found murdered, the detectives begin to investigate and look at all the main characters as possible suspects. There is also Mr. Kennedy, who runs a local art gallery and gives Patience a place to live in the attic of his shop in return for some of her beautiful paper cut artwork.

The story starts off with the description of a child abduction that had occurred nearly 20 years ago. How are all these characters related?
Rose Molina
Oct 01, 2025
8/10 stars
Feeney is always good

This was a bit of a departure from Feeney’s usual thriller style. A bit tame but still it was an enjoyable read.
brittanytaylor
Jan 20, 2025
8/10 stars
From 4 different perspectives, a twisted connection to crimes
trinabean724
Mar 19, 2024
7/10 stars
I really need a HALF star good reads!!! 3.5

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