Where She Lies, Michael Scanlon
About the Book
In a town full of liars, no one is safe.
When Detective Finnegan Beck is demoted from his
high-powered job in Dublin and relocated in disgrace to the small Irish town of
Cross Beg, he predicts boredom will be his biggest threat.
It’s a sleepy backwater, a forgotten town of narrow
alleyways that lead from the cathedral down to the river, and towards the
bogland beyond. It’s a place where seemingly nothing – good nor bad – has
happened. Not for a long time.
But when a teenage girl is found dead in the woods
a mile from town, and a seemingly-harmless local drifter is arrested, Beck has
an instinct that someone with far darker motives is behind the crime.
It seems that everyone in Cross Beg has something
to hide though. Wading through layers and layers of lies, and generations upon
generations of secrets, he believes he’s finally getting closer to the truth.
That is, until the killer strikes again…
This debut novel from a powerful new Irish voice is
the first in a gripping series that will feature his charismatic detective,
Finnegan Beck. Perfect for fans of LJ Ross, Joy Ellis and Patricia Gibney.
My Review
The Quite Hours by Michael
Scanlon is the first book in the Detective Finnegan Beck series and wow what a
first!
We are introduced to Beck and
find out he’s been relocated to Cross Beg and also demoted as well. Beck isn’t
made to feel welcome at all either by his colleagues or his superiors and is
only planning on trying to blend into the background but when a teenage girl is
found in the wood on the outskirts of town Beck become embroiled in the
investigation and starts uncovering the various mysteries that the people of
Cross Beg are trying to keep hidden.
I found myself thoroughly
enjoying this book from the first few pages and being slowly embroiled in a)
the investigation and b) the mysterious life of Finnegan Beck.
I’m looking forward to the next
book in the series and seeing how the character of Beck develops and more of
the back story of which I am sure is going to be well thought out new series of
books, with no doubt lots of surprises and twists and turns.
My thanks to Bookouture and
NetGalley for my copy of this book, my thoughts however are my own.
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