The Stolen Girls

DI Lottie Parker has been off work for four months, and on this first day back at work a young woman appears on her doorstep asking for help. The unfortunate thing is that she is unable to communicate in English, so she gives Lottie a sealed envelope telling her that her troubles are written in her own language in the envelope and then she leaves.

Moments after arriving back at the station she and her DS Mark Boyd, are headed off to a site where the body of a female has been found in a water main excavation.  Pathologist Jane Dore informs Parker that the victim had been shot, and that she was pregnant at the time of her death.  Dore also thinks that she is of Eastern European descent.

Parker and Boyd check out a detention centre for asylum seekers.  They are sure afterwards that the head of the centre knows something.

Whilst in the middle of their investigation, a seventeen year old girl is reported missing.  She is the daughter of a well known felon who now resides in Spain.  Not long after this another body is found in similar circumstances to the first, and by the same man who had found the first!  Is it the missing girl?

Then a third body is discovered, and once again by the same man.  The thing is he was with his boss this time, and the boss had received a phone call to go to the location to make a minor repair.

Is the man who has been finding all the bodies really the killer?  Why would he kill and then find the bodies?  Is he an attention seeker?  Author Patricia Gibney’s latest thriller is fast paced and immensely engaging.  I couldn’t put this book down.  I highly recommend it and am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.