I was skeptical about reading this novel since in the past I’ve had a hard
time understanding Irish novels, but I had zero issues with this one, it was
super easy to follow.
I was
also very intrigued about this story since it’s a police procedural that has a
psychological aspect to it, as DCS Frankie Sheehan tries to understand the mind
of a serial killer that was convicted for killing his family.
One of
the thing I noticed right away was how atmospheric the novel was. The writing
was impeccable, I truly felt like I was in the streets of Dublin.
Even
though I thought this was a slow-burning police procedural, I really ended up
loving the main character DCS Frankie Sheehan and would be interested in reading
more books involving the Detective.
The pace
did pick up near the end, but the ending left me confused. Don’t let that stop
you from reading this though, maybe that’s just me.
Thank you to Penguin Group Dutton
for providing me with an electronic ARC of this book via NetGalley. As usual,
my reviews are my honest and unbiased opinions.
Death is no stranger to Detective
Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan, but she isn’t the only one from her
small, coastal suburb to be intimately acquainted with it. Years ago, teenager
Seán Hennessey shocked the tight-knit community when he was convicted of the
brutal murder of his parents and attempted slaying of his sister, though he
always maintained his innocence. Now, Seán is finally being released from
prison—but when his newfound freedom coincides with the discovery of two
bodies, the alleged connection between the cases only serves to pull Frankie
further from answers even as it draws her closer to her town’s hidden darkness.
With a television documentary revisiting Seán’s sentence pushing the public’s
sympathies into conflict on a weekly basis, a rabid media pressuring the police
like never before, and a rising body count, Frankie will need all of her
resources if she is not only to catch a killer, but put to rest what really
happened all those years ago.
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