Today I’m taking part in the blog tour for Hidden Daughters. 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:

The girl shuddered violently as she hid behind the crumbling walls. Through the gloom she saw something that made her blood freeze in fear, and heard the heavy footsteps. She knew there was no way out…

When the call comes in about a lonely woman found burned to death in a deserted cottage, Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene. Her investigation swiftly reveals the victim has no family to mourn her. As a young girl, she was abandoned by her parents and hidden away at the Sisters of Mercy Convent. Has something in her tragic past led to her murder?

Then Lottie discovers that she had a visitor just before she died. A young journalist, Imelda, had called on the vulnerable woman. Could she have something to do with her death?

Lottie’s search takes her to the abandoned convent, and as she takes in the imposing dark walls, she can only imagine how terrified the girls must have been. The old caretaker on site tells Lottie that a woman matching Imelda’s description had been there a day earlier…

But later that day, Lottie is devastated to learn that the caretaker has been scalded to death like the woman in the cottage. Imelda is the only connection between the victims, and Lottie is in a race against time to find her.

Yet when Imelda’s blood-stained jacket is found in an abandoned farm-building Lottie fears that the killer has got to the young journalist first. Desperate to find Imelda alive, and identify the deadly perpetrator, Lottie needs to find answers from the other broken women who were hidden at the convent. But can she find them before another victim is silenced forever?

A totally addictive page-turner from bestselling author Patricia Gibney. If you like Rachel McLean, Kendra Elliott and Robert Dugoni, Hidden Daughters will have you hooked.

Review:

I absolutely love this series and Patricia Gibney has stepped it up once again! With a long standing series, it’s often difficult to keep it fresh and make sure the characters keep developing, but Patricia Gibney has no problem with this. I loved getting to know Detective Kirby a little better, and it was interesting to see how he managed his extra responsibilities in Lottie’s absence. There was also a different dynamic for Lottie, as this time she was on the outside of the investigation and I loved seeing how this affected her actions.

There are sections of Hidden Daughters which take us back to the past, to the events that happened in a laundry run by nuns. These scenes were horrifying, but Patricia Gibney has described what happened so well and I immediately wondered how this was connected to the crimes in the present day and was rooting for the detectives to find justice.

Hidden Daughters moves effortlessly between different investigations in two different locations and Patricia Gibney easily weaves together some complex plots. I was totally hooked the whole way through and found it very difficult to tear myself away, especially as the tension continued to rise!

Patricia Gibney has set the next instalment of the series up brilliantly and I can’t wait to see what happens next! I would also love a spin off series…

Hidden Daughters is available from Amazon.

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