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The girl shuddered violently as she hid behind the crumbling walls. Through the gloom she saw something that made her blood freeze in fear, and heard the heavy footsteps. She knew there was no way out…
When the call comes in about a lonely woman found burned to death in a deserted cottage, Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene. Her investigation swiftly reveals the victim has no family to mourn her. As a young girl, she was abandoned by her parents and hidden away at the Sisters of Mercy Convent. Has something in her tragic past led to her murder?
Then Lottie discovers that she had a visitor just before she died. A young journalist, Imelda, had called on the vulnerable woman. Could she have something to do with her death?
Lottie’s search takes her to the abandoned convent, and as she takes in the imposing dark walls, she can only imagine how terrified the girls must have been. The old caretaker on site tells Lottie that a woman matching Imelda’s description had been there a day earlier…
But later that day, Lottie is devastated to learn that the caretaker has been scalded to death like the woman in the cottage. Imelda is the only connection between the victims, and Lottie is in a race against time to find her.
Yet when Imelda’s blood-stained jacket is found in an abandoned farm-building Lottie fears that the killer has got to the young journalist first. Desperate to find Imelda alive, and identify the deadly perpetrator, Lottie needs to find answers from the other broken women who were hidden at the convent. But can she find them before another victim is silenced forever?
A totally addictive page-turner from bestselling author Patricia Gibney. If you like Rachel McLean, Kendra Elliott and Robert Dugoni, Hidden Daughters will have you hooked.
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My Review
Patricia Gibney may have written fourteen books in the DI Lottie Parker series, but they never get old. Hidden Daughters is the perfect example of this.
A series which I would say to enjoy fully you are better reading the books in order. Although it is ok as a standalone, you do miss out on character developments, etc. I always have to read in order. Always!
This particular instalment deals with the after effects of the horrific Magdalene Laundries, which is a well-known piece of Catholic, Irish history. It makes for such a powerful and emotional story.
Lottie is away with Boyd for his daughter’s wedding in Galway. It is time for relaxing, that is until Lottie gets involved in some murders that may possibly be connected to a murder back at home. Despite the Garda objecting and Boyd warning her, Lottie decides to keep digging.
There are so many books in the series, and they just keep getting better! It is such a dark storyline that made for an emotional and engrossing read. Each book has always been a five-star read, I wish I could give more for Hidden Daughters. I was obsessed with this one! Twists that kept me guessing wrong as usual and such emotion running throughout. I am actually wondering how Patricia Gibney can top this instalment!
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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