The White Crow (2025) by Australian crime writer, Michael Robotham, features a child who is displaced from her family after the murder of her mother.

We learn about 5-year-old Daisy early in the novel as PC Philomena McCarthy sees her on the street alone one night when she is out on patrol.

Daisy spends the night with PC McCarthy (the social worker is awful) before she moves in with family friend Amber.

At the end of the novel it is still not decided with whom Daisy will live but Amber is now out of the question.