This is the second book in the Detective Iris Locke crime thriller series and I think it's quite important that you have read the first book prior to getting into this one as there are many significant events that occurred that are necessary to know about before delving in.
DS Iris Locke is still reeling from the revelations and loss but she is trying to come to terms and get back into her job -- the one thing she still has left. She's now living in a boarding house but has decided to stay with the Corbally station Murder Team in Limerick. She's done with Dublin but knows she belongs here in the town where she was raised despite everything that happened. Her colleague, DS Ben Slattery calls about a case. Seems that a murder has taken place at Curlew Hall, a residential care center for troubled kids who have rich parents. A young carer, Rachel McDermott has been bludgeoned and left dead on the kitchen floor of one of the bungalows. The patient she was assigned to watch, Eleanor Marshall, the 15-year-old daughter of a prominent local businessman, has disappeared. The full force is called out to do a massive search for Eleanor -- did she kill Rachel and why? Everyone loved Rachel so what happened inside the bungalow and has something happened to Eleanor -- who is a vulnerable girl with severe epilepsy and a checkered history? The investigation begins. NO SPOILERS.
The writing is very good, but the story moved quite slowly with lots of interviews back and forth with same people and the usual difficulty in getting information from them. The setting was well-described and there was a sense of menace that wasn't fully realized. The two main characters, Locke and Slattery, have a decent partnership and proceed diligently in their work going without sleep or food. There were many references to what had recently happened to Iris but a paragraph or two summing it up completed would be really helpful to refresh the Reader's memories with all the details. That would make it easier to relate more to Iris and her current emotional status. I would have to say that this installment didn't grab me as much as the first book but I do plan to catch the next one to see what happens for Iris in the future.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is the second book in the series and I believe it doesn't work very well as a standalone so read the first one prior.
Genre - crime fiction, police procedural
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