Today I’m joining the Books On Tour for Her Last Walk Home. My review is written with thanks to the team at Bookouture for inviting me on the tour and for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

Her shoes pinched as she shivered in the cold night air. She just wanted to get home. A taxi slowed to a halt next to her, and as she buckled her seat belt, she noticed the child’s seat next to her and felt safe. But when she saw his eyes in the mirror, a shiver of terror shook her to her core…

When a young woman’s body is found on a patch of wet grass in the early hours of the morning, Detective Lottie Parker mourns the young life so brutally snatched away. Looking at the victim’s flimsy strappy top, damp from the dew and soaked with blood, it is clear that this young girl never came home from a night out. Lottie’s heart breaks as she thinks of the girl’s parents finding their daughter’s empty bed and she vows to catch the murderer.

The young woman is soon identified as Laura Nolan, and Lottie watches the blood drain from her mother Diana’s face when she tells her the terrible news. Diana reveals that Laura was on a date the night she was killed, but she doesn’t know who with… and Laura’s empty bedroom with make-up scattered across her dressing table offers no clues.

Lottie and her team rush to trace Laura’s last moments. But hope at a potential breakthrough turns to horror for Lottie when another young woman, Shannon Kenny is reported missing, last seen climbing into a taxi with a broken light, close to the same bar.

But then, Lottie discovers a connection between Laura and Shannon that totally overturns everything she thought she knew. The killer didn’t stalk these two young women at random. He knew exactly who they were and where they would be. But can Lottie stop him before he strikes again?

A completely compelling page-turner from bestselling author Patricia Gibney. If you like Rachel McLean, Kendra Elliott and Robert Dugoni, Her Last Walk Home will have you hooked.

Review:

I was delighted to see that Patricia Gibney is releasing a further novel in the Lottie Parker series, and Her Last Walk Home is just as good as, if not better than, the rest of the series! Her Last Walk Home is the fourteenth book in the series, so now more than ever, Lottie and her family, and her team, feel like family to me. It felt so comfortable slipping back into their lives and spending time with them. In particular, I enjoyed catching up with Kirby in this novel. In the past, he’s perhaps been one of the more difficult characters to warm to and get to know, but I really felt him come into his own in this story and I hope that continues.

There are so many different strands to this novel, and in the beginning, it did take me some time to get to grips with the different aspects of the story. However, Patricia Gibney is an amazing plotter and I was really intrigued by how so many different characters would be connected to each other. She’s also brilliant at creating such a wide range of characters from young children who tug on my heartstrings to perpetrators that make me skin crawl, and this makes it really easy to become engaged in the novel. I found it really exciting to try and work out how everyone was involved. 

Patricia Gibney is also extremely talented at writing the tense scenes in Her Last Walk Home that keep the reader on the edge of their seat. As I was reading, I often felt shivers up my spine or had to look over my shoulder! The chapters are short and usually end on a cliffhanger so it was really hard to put the book down at times!

I did think I had the twists worked out, but I was completely wrong all the way through!

Her Last Walk Home is available from Amazon.

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