So here we are at the 4th in the really very excellent "Paula Maguire" series and with A Savage Hunger Claire Mcgowan took it up a notch (and made me grumble madly at her on Twitter) with her usual mix of current mystery and ongoing trauma for her main protagonists. A real page turner this one, not ...
Not everyone who's missing is lost.. The Lost had been sat in the kindle pile for a while and after seeing a flurry of tweets about the new book in the series I decided to see what I was missing.I found it to be a fantastic novel. The first in a new series Paula Maguire has been employed by the poli...
Absolutely blooming brilliant. Full review to follow. Possibly VERY soon if I can't stop myself but possibly nearer publication. I WOULD say if you havent started this series yet then you should because it really is top notch. And hey you've got time to catch up before this one arrives :)
Coming 10th April from Headline Thank you SO much Claire McGowan for sending me a proof copy. A stolen baby. A murdered woman. A decades-old atrocity. Something connects them all. A month before Christmas, and Ballyterrin on the Irish border lies under a thick pall of snow. When a newborn baby g...
This novel was decidedly flat and is more drama than suspense or crime/murder.It is a debut novel and it reads unfortunately like one. Lots of description but the plot is really about the trial of the main character's boyfriend and a sub-plot.Multiple voices are used to narrate the novel but of cour...
I bought this book a few months ago and have only just got around to reading it. I wish I had read it sooner, I liked the way the story jumped from character to character, even if just for a couple of pages to describe the events. Looking forward to the new book next year, won't be waiting as long t...
The Fall is the debut novel from Claire McGowan and tells the story of a murder investigation and journey to trial from the point of view of three characters: the wife-to-be of the accused, the girlfriend of an unsavoury man who happened to be in the same location as the victim and accused on the ni...