Review: Silent Voices by Patricia Gibney

 Title: Silent Voices

Author: Patricia Gibney

Series: DI Lottie Parker, #9

Published: February 2021, Bookouture

Format: ARC E-copy, 451 pages

Source: Netgalley via Publisher

Summary: 

The hall was empty and
dark. She felt for the switch on the wall, but another noise caused her
to pause. Was it from upstairs? That’s when she heard the whoosh of
sound. The flutter of material. Right before she felt the push between
her shoulder blades.

When twenty-five-year-old Rachel Mullen is
discovered murdered in her own bed by her devastated twin sister, the
morning after a glittering party, it’s a chilling new case for Detective
Lottie Parker. Rachel’s freckled face is bruised and broken, a shard of
glass placed in her throat… Faced with such a horrifying murder, Lottie
wastes no time in pursuing every clue.

Many of Ragmullin’s most
important people were at the party, and Lottie risks angering her boss
if she doesn’t tread carefully. Then a brilliant young doctor is found
murdered with glass in her throat. The doctor was nowhere near the party
and a devastated Lottie is forced to question everything. Two beautiful
young women with the world at their feet have been brutally silenced.
Why did the killer need them to die?

Desperate to find proof of
what really happened to Rachel that night, Lottie’s search brings her to
a vulnerable teenage girl, Maddy, who was waitressing at the party. But
just as Lottie is close to uncovering a key piece of evidence, Maddy is
seen disappearing into an unmarked car. Will Lottie be able to find the
frightened fifteen-year-old or will she too be silenced forever?

My thoughts:  This
is the 9th book in Patricia Gibney’s Detective Lottie Parker series and
this series is just so darn good! Yes, it’s dark and not for everyone,
but I do love my crime fiction and this detective series is one of my
favorites!

I love how we are thrown right into things with these books and this latest one might be the most complicated one yet. And all this is going on just days before Lottie and Boyd’s wedding – a time that is normally a little stressful but when you add in a case full of dead-ends and more questions than answers, the stress just keeps piling up.  

I think my favorite part of this series is that while the case is going on, we have such great character development. And on top of that, in a series that is 9 books in, there is still a sense of uniqueness to this series. I don’t feel that I am reading the same book over and over and I so appreciate that. 

These books are action-packed and keep you on your toes. You are never quite sure where things are headed, and as always, we have sections that are told from the killer’s point of view, but we aren’t give clues as to who it might be. We are also given flashbacks to the past and boy does this give us insight into the murderer’s head.

I can’t recommend this series enough and I am looking forward to seeing what comes next. I truly believe that this is a series that just gets better with each new book!

 

Books in this series:  

1. The Missing Ones
2. The Stolen Girls
3. The Lost Child
4. No Safe Place 
5. Tell Nobody 
6. Final Betrayal 
7. Broken Souls
8. Buried Angels 
9. Silent Voices