I’m back today with my stop on the book tour for Paradise by Virginia Wolf. Thanks to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers and Embla Books for the copy of the book to take part today.
In a beach paradise, an unspeakable crime is committed. The only witness lies in a coma, fighting for her life…
Australia’s Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a young mother is brutally murdered and her daughter, Gabby, is left in a coma, with her life hanging in the balance.
DS Lucas Walker has just arrived in Surfer’s Paradise for some much-needed recovery after injuries sustained in his last investigation. But he is soon pulled into the dark twists and turns of this home invasion gone wrong, vowing to find the men responsible.
As Walker digs deeper into the dark underbelly of this shimmering city by the ocean, a case from his own past resurfaces, with deadly consequences.
And as eight-year-old Gabby, the sole witness her mother’s murder, wakes in her hospital bed, Walker is in a race against time to stop those responsible before they return to silence her forever…
Don’t miss the next instalment in the tense and gripping DS Lucas Walker series. Fans of The Dry by Jane Harper, Cara Hunter and Chris Whitaker will be hooked from the very first page until the final breathtaking conclusion.
Paradise is the second book in the DS Walker series. I haven’t read the first book, so I just jumped in on this book. I was glad the author did a pretty thorough catch-up as I didn’t feel I had missed out or confused about the storyline in Paradise.
DS Walker is on leave of absence from work due to injuries he received in the previous case. He decides to go to Surfer’s Paradise to recover. He doesn’t expect to get pulled into a murder case while there. A case that is going to test him to his limits when his past catches up with him.
Set on the Gold Coast of Australia and the author’s detailed descriptions had me feeling like it was all blue skies, blazing sunshine, and the sea. That is until things grow darker and Walker begins helping in a murder case.
There are two main story threads that bring plenty of action, tension and there are some pretty dark disturbing things going on. Walker is a character I did like getting to know. I’m so used to coppers who are in some way damaged. Walker is caring, which makes him impulsive sometimes.
Altogether, it is a well-written, intriguing book. There was plenty going on for me to keep turning the pages and a twist to add to the tale. Patricia Wolf is an author whose books I will most definitely keep an eye out for.
Author Bio
Patricia Wolf has been a journalist for more than 15 years, a regular contributor to titles including The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Independent and The Telegraph, among others. She grew up in outback Australia, in a mining town called Mount Isa in far north-west Queensland – eagle eyed readers will have spotted a small reference to it in her first book, OUTBACK. Patricia loves the rugged beauty, indigo sky and wide horizons of the outback, but left Australia after university to travel the world and became a journalist. She lives in Berlin, Germany, but the outback always calls her home. In 2019, just before the covid pandemic locked us all in, Patricia spent two months in northwest Queensland, taking a four-week road trip. As she drove and spent nights and days surrounded by the beauty and rugged harshness of the outback, DI Lucas Walker and his stories came to be.
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