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The Journal (2014)

by Derick Parsons(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

XTL Publishing

series

Jack O'Neill Mysteries

review 1: Here is another great book in the Jack O'Neill series by Derick Parsons. Set in Dublin Ireland, Jack and his young partner, Frank, are assigned the task of finding the murderer of a young couple. Just when you think you know "who done it," Mr. Parsons throws you a curve ball. The final scene is interesting, also. The story is tight, with plenty of action and plenty of drama. If you are a fan of mystery novels of the law enforcement variety, this is the series for you. Check out Redemption Song and The Journal by Derick Parsons. You won't be disappointed.
review 2: The Journal by Derick Parsons is a crime thriller full of mystery and suspense. This is the second book in the Detective Inspector Jack O’Neill series, following the earlier Redemption Song, ... moreand grows bigger and better. The author Derick Parsons is fast emerging as one of the best thriller writers of today. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the March 27, 1966. Ever since he learned to read he wanted to write and completed his first full-length novel at the age of 11. He married Eimear, a top-notch litigation lawyer in Ireland, but a wonderful person nonetheless, and the anchor that stops him drifting away and getting lost on the dark seas of his own mind. They have three perfect boys to keep them busy during their free time.Inspector Jack O’Neill had been seconded to the Central Records department for years, to keep him out of sight –and trouble- when he was a habitual drunk, but having cleared a series of murders the year before he had more or less rehabilitated himself. He also possessed quite a bit of dirt on the Garda itself, and to keep him quiet had been offered a promotion to Superintendent; he had refused, and had instead asked to keep on investigating murders as the price of his silence. His rationale was that he cared nothing for rank –or the extra pay- and as an Inspector could still be a cop, while as a Superintendent he would be just another paper-pushing bureaucrat. Since then he and Frank Carr had been used as a floating, two-man unit handling the cases that no one else wanted, or hadn’t the manpower to deal with. And although opposites in almost everything they had prospered together, clearing eight murder cases in a row.In The Journal, as Jack and Frank were investigating a suspicious death in a remote village in Cork in which a woman reportedly fell off a cliff, another dog case was thrust upon them involving a double murder – Jimmy Maguire and his soon-to-be wife Sally Carter were found murdered in their home. The ghastly murders were discovered when Martine Lowell, a single mother of three boys aged 8, 10 and 11, who lived in the Ashpark estate in Ballybrack, South Dublin, went to pick up her friend Sally Carter, who was living with her soon-to-be husband Jimmy Maguire, before walking on up to the supermarket where they both worked.Jack O’Neill and Frank Carr are up against a baffling case which gets murkier by the day. Derick Parsons constructed a thrilling crime mystery as the detectives struggle and fumble in their dogged determination to solve the mystery. It is a well-written story which will truly absorb you from cover to cover. If you loved the earlier Jack O’Neill thriller Redemption Song, this one is not to be missed! less

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