BOOK BLURB
The little girl looked like an angel in her thin white robe, her long black hair spread around her head like a dark halo on the snow. Her hands rested on her chest, fingers interlaced as if she had fallen asleep while praying. But she would never wake up again…
When Detective Lottie Parker receives news that a child’s body has been found in the frozen grounds of thecathedral, a shiver runs down her spine. She’s terrified it will be eight-year-old Willow Devine, reported missing that morning.
But when she arrives at the cathedral, holding a photo of Willow with her blonde ponytail and gap-toothed smile, she gets a terrible shock. The body is a young girl, wrapped in a white shroud, a rosary clutched in her frozen fingers. But her hair is dark, not fair. This girl isn’t Willow but another eight-year-old, Naomi.
Desperate to find a connection between the two girls and to find Willow before it is too late, Lottie speaks to thegirls’ families and discovers that both girls were altar servers at the cathedral. The charismatic priest Father Maguire has a watertight alibi for the time the girls went missing, but Lottie suspects the confused old lady traumatised by thediscovery of Naomi’s body is hiding something…
A day later, Willow’s little body is found wrapped in a white robe in the snowy grounds of a church across town. Lottie is devastated, convinced now that she can’t trust anyone, least of all the girls’ parents. Why did Willow’s mother claim the girls didn’t know each other? And why are there no photos of Naomi in her mother’s shabby house?
But when a little boy from the choir goes missing too, Lottie realises she must spread her net wider. Can she stop this twisted killer before another precious life is stolen?
BOOK REVIEW
It’s one of the worst calls that a police officer can receive, there’s been a dead child found and we need you to attend the scene. With a sense of dread and sadness DI Lottie Parker arrives fearful it’s the missing little girl who was not seen after her choir practice. Imaging the shock when arriving on the scene she discovers it’s a different little girl. This means that the first girl is still lost and that there is a murderer out there.Realising time and the winter weather is against at them the team pull together to talk to those who may have been the last to see the girls. Yet there is another child missing only this time is closer to home for Lottie and Boyd, it’s his son Sergio that his ex wife kidnapped. Will there be a resolution for both of them that will be positive one ??
The thirteenth book in the series but by no means unlucky for the author or reader. Once again we are taken back into the lives of DI Lottie Parker in both home and work. We follow her as she try’s to navigate a murder investigation whilst care for her ever forgetful mother. We also fall into the despair and fear that Boyd feels as he frantically searches for his lost son. Lives in fiction that could mirror reality as that is how the author makes you feel with every turn of the page. With an increasing sense of urgency the novel carries you headlong into the investigation and the need to catch the killer. As always the author gives us a great read with twists aplenty and the need to keep going page after page regardless of what is going on around you. Hopefully one day we may see Lottie and Boyd finally getting the happily ever after they both deserve. Until then we will continue to be caught up in the amazing world the author has created and which goes from strength to strength.
My thanks to Bookouture for my tour invite and copy of the book, as always they are my own thoughts and opinions on the book.
STAR RATING 5
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia is the million-copy bestselling author of the DI Lottie Parker series. She yearned to be a writer after reading Enid Blyton and Carolyn Keene and even wanted to be Nancy Drew when she grew up. She has now grown up (she thinks) but the closest she’s come to Nancy Drew is writing crime!
In 2009, after her husband died, she retired from her job and started writing seriously. Fascinated by people and their quirky characteristics, she always carries a notebook to scribble down observations.
Patricia also loves to paint in watercolour and lives in the Irish midlands with her children.
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