Today I am thrilled to be bringing you am extract from the newly released Book The Guilty Girl by Patricia Gibney. Thank you to Sarah from Bookouture for inviting me along on this book tour from Bookouture.First let’s have a peek at the book description.
Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by a face that sent a cold shiver down her spine…
When the call comes in about Lucy, a seventeen-year-old girl murdered after the secret party she held in her parents’ home, Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene. As she picks her way through the smashed glasses and the blood spatter on the perfect cream carpet, she is horrified to see Lucy’s angelic face, silvery-blue eyes forever closed.
As Lottie breaks the news to Lucy’s heartbroken parents and the devastated partygoers, she discovers that hours before her death Lucy had revealed a terrible secret about her friend Hannah. And when Lottie finds Lucy’s bloodstained clothing hidden in Hannah’s bedroom, she has no option but to bring the shy, frightened girl into custody.
But Hannah claims to have no memory of the night Lucy died and Lottie begins to question her guilt. Then a fifteen-year-old boy who also attended the party is pulled from the canal. And as Lottie investigates, she discovers something shocking. Her own son Sean was at the party. Why did he lie to her? Is her beloved child a witness or a suspect… or is he now in the killer’s sights?
If you love Karin Slaughter, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine, you’ll be hooked by this heart-stopping thriller from Patricia Gibney. The Guilty Girl will have you gripped until the very last page.
Sounds fabulous eh? Well, just to give you a taster,here is an extract from the book it self!
P R O L O G U E
Every time a punch landed on his skin, she winced and tried not to look. But she couldn’t help peeking out through her fingers. Thick red streaks paid testament to the beating being meted out. It appeared particularly violent and she wasn’t sure she could stomach much more.
It wasn’t a street fight. It was a sparring match. Rules, timings, trainer and coach. Yet it was brutal. If this was what they did in training, how would it translate into an actual bout with a championship on the line?
She strolled around the perimeter of the raised ring. Eyes cast downwards, she listened instead. The sound of their foot‐work could have rivalled any Riverdance routine. Sweat flew through the air like a soft morning mist. Wheezing and gasping created a wordless language, as though they were engaged in a silent conversation. And then there were the intermittent slaps
and punches. Groans and feet sliding, trying to remain upright.
Trying to avoid hitting the deck or they might not get up again. It was imperative not to go down for the count. That could spell disaster. She knew that.
Though she was young, she felt like she’d been around this sport forever. She never understood its attraction. But if it made him happy, she wouldn’t argue.Reaching the end of the room, she sat down heavily on a bench and waited, stealing the odd glance at the fighters in the ring.
They pirouetted, swayed, ducked and dived, neither man giving in nor giving up. One was destined to be dead within weeks. But she was not to know that as she waited. She was not to know that her actions had already started the tragic events and she still had one innocent mistake to make that would result
in death.
Maybe if she’d been more tuned into the dangers of the small slice of world she occupied, she could have halted the series of events about to unfold. But she hadn’t been tuned in at all, so she couldn’t change destiny.
The precariously stacked deck of cards would topple, and as they came tumbling down, few would escape the fallout, least of all her.
So there she sat, oblivious, watching and waiting.
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Author Bio:
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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