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I had never heard of Brian McGilloway until I received this book. ‘Little Girl Lost’ is a standalone police procedural set in Northern Ireland, and to be honest I have usually shied away from reading books with an Irish theme. In fact the only ones I have read previously have been those of Maeve Binchy. I found the storyline captivating, engaging, fast moving and once I started reading I found it difficult to put the book down. For me all the characters were believable. Why was the little girl found wandering in a wood only clad in her nightclothes and with her hands stained with blood? Why is she too traumatised to speak? Where has she come from? What secrets does little girl lost hold? When the police find little girl lost, they are in fact hunting for another missing girl. As the story unfolds other characters emerge including a old man with dementia who may or may not have a guilty secret, and a woman fallen on hard times through alcohol abuse. There are a few unpleasant surprises and a sting in the tail. To say more would spoil the story, but suffice to say that having read this offering I can’t wait to read Brian McGilloway’s Inspector Devlin stories. All in all a great read and one I would recommend to anyone who likes a good crime story.
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Brian McGilloway is a new name to me but I found this police procedural novel to be very readable and enjoyable (although at times it is quite distressing) and I’ll certainly look out for more books by this author. DS Lucy Black is a very believable and sympathetic main character and one can’t help wondering if this will be the first of a series featuring her. ‘Little lost girl’ has a number of intriguing, interlocking plots involving abduction and shady business deals, all with a background of the “Troubles” – that lovely whimsical Irish word to describe the bloody civil war in Northern Ireland. There was also the seemingly gratutious inclusion of a thread concerning neglected children, which was really heartrending.
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I’d never heard of Brian McGilloway before picking up this book, even though this is his 5th novel, doing a little bit of investigation it would appear that a number of the previous novels have been nominated for awards, always a good chance that this was going to be worth reading then!
This book had me hooked right from the start, it has short chapters wich I have found help to keep the pack moving along quickly but even without these the story had drawn me in and made me want to keep reading.
I found the timing of my reading this book quite ironic. It highlights the treatment of catholic police offices during the troubles but the shows how much safer it is for them in Northern Ireland now – I was reading this as the news was showing a car bomb that killed a catholic police officer.
I thought this book was a brilliant read, I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next and how all the various threads actually hung together, I also like the fact that every time you thought they’d made a breakthrough it seemed to lead to a dead end and there was more investigation needed. There was a twist, which I could see being built up to for some time but there were other ones which I didn’t see coming at all.
Being a crime thriller you expect there to be violence and deaths, in books like this they don’t usually bother me but I have to admit that I found one so shocking it had me in tears.
I feel I’ve gushed quite a lot in this review but I honestly thought the book was that good! I’ll definitely be buying the other books that McGilloway has released
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Almost unputdownable,
I had never heard of Brian McGilloway until I received this book. ‘Little Girl Lost’ is a standalone police procedural set in Northern Ireland, and to be honest I have usually shied away from reading books with an Irish theme. In fact the only ones I have read previously have been those of Maeve Binchy. I found the storyline captivating, engaging, fast moving and once I started reading I found it difficult to put the book down. For me all the characters were believable. Why was the little girl found wandering in a wood only clad in her nightclothes and with her hands stained with blood? Why is she too traumatised to speak? Where has she come from? What secrets does little girl lost hold? When the police find little girl lost, they are in fact hunting for another missing girl. As the story unfolds other characters emerge including a old man with dementia who may or may not have a guilty secret, and a woman fallen on hard times through alcohol abuse. There are a few unpleasant surprises and a sting in the tail. To say more would spoil the story, but suffice to say that having read this offering I can’t wait to read Brian McGilloway’s Inspector Devlin stories. All in all a great read and one I would recommend to anyone who likes a good crime story.
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|Police procedural novel with a background of N. Ireland “Troubles”,
Brian McGilloway is a new name to me but I found this police procedural novel to be very readable and enjoyable (although at times it is quite distressing) and I’ll certainly look out for more books by this author. DS Lucy Black is a very believable and sympathetic main character and one can’t help wondering if this will be the first of a series featuring her. ‘Little lost girl’ has a number of intriguing, interlocking plots involving abduction and shady business deals, all with a background of the “Troubles” – that lovely whimsical Irish word to describe the bloody civil war in Northern Ireland. There was also the seemingly gratutious inclusion of a thread concerning neglected children, which was really heartrending.
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|Loved it,
I’d never heard of Brian McGilloway before picking up this book, even though this is his 5th novel, doing a little bit of investigation it would appear that a number of the previous novels have been nominated for awards, always a good chance that this was going to be worth reading then!
This book had me hooked right from the start, it has short chapters wich I have found help to keep the pack moving along quickly but even without these the story had drawn me in and made me want to keep reading.
I found the timing of my reading this book quite ironic. It highlights the treatment of catholic police offices during the troubles but the shows how much safer it is for them in Northern Ireland now – I was reading this as the news was showing a car bomb that killed a catholic police officer.
I thought this book was a brilliant read, I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next and how all the various threads actually hung together, I also like the fact that every time you thought they’d made a breakthrough it seemed to lead to a dead end and there was more investigation needed. There was a twist, which I could see being built up to for some time but there were other ones which I didn’t see coming at all.
Being a crime thriller you expect there to be violence and deaths, in books like this they don’t usually bother me but I have to admit that I found one so shocking it had me in tears.
I feel I’ve gushed quite a lot in this review but I honestly thought the book was that good! I’ll definitely be buying the other books that McGilloway has released
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