Sometimes taken by desperate women who have lost children, or by those who can’t conceive or carry a baby to term. They are taken from hospitals, cars, prams. The book scans every case and scenario, from Minnie Dean in the 1800s, convicted of infanticide, through the various cases of new-born infants being stolen.
When an atrocious murder of a pregnant woman is committed in Dunedin, Detective Sam Shephard’s boss wants her off the investigation – he doesn’t believe “because of your own advanced state of pregnancy, that you would be able to remain objective and emotionally detached from this case.” But Sam is not having a bar of it, it’s not that she can’t remain objective or detached, but because subjective and attached is how Sam does her best work.Įxpectant deals with the most inhuman and the most human of crimes, those that involve babies.
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