I am delighted to be one of today’s stops on the blog tour for The Daughter by Bill McLaughlin.
There are still a few remaining stops on the tour, here’s where it’s heading next.
Sometimes a killer comes along who will make your blood run cold…
When the body of a young woman is found with her hands and teeth missing, Detective Inspector Phil Morris struggles to identify her.
The evidence initially suggests she is local missing girl, Alex Waters, whose mother, Tricia, comes armed with a psychic gift she would rather not possess.
As Phil and his partner, Detective Donna Barclay, try to untangle the web of mystery surrounding the body, it appears that Alex had more secrets than even her psychic mother knew.
As the hour glass empties, Phil and Donna are pushed to their limits trying to unravel the disturbed mind behind the sick game playing out around them.
Welcome to a new chapter in domestic noir.
This was the third book in a series, which I hadn’t realised when I started, so there was an element of trying to catch up with the storyline and fill in the gaps. However it is still possible to read as a standalone book.
I found the book a little difficult to get into at first, but as the story began to unfold it became easier to figure out who everyone was.
The setting was really good and the writing was brilliant. There was a superbly dark undertone with some extremely chilling descriptions throughout the story. There was plenty of suspense throughout the book and, although I had a idea of what was happening, it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the book. In fact I kept me reading to see how everything fit together.
I would definitely recommend this book, however for the full reading experience I would maybe suggest starting from the beginning of the series.
Many thanks to Billy McLaughlin and Emma Mitchell for my advanced reader copy and inviting me on the tour!
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About the Author
Billy McLaughlin is a Glasgow born author who released his first novelette Invisible in March 2016. Receiving glowing customer reviews, he followed up with the gritty novel Lost Girl which introduces readers to the mainstay characters Phil & Kate. In September 2016, his third book In the Wake of Death was released, re-uniting audiences with Phil & Kate as well as throwing a brand-new mystery that has been praised for its unique twist.
McLaughlin welcomed 2017 in celebrating that Lost Girl peaked at number 2 in the crime thriller charts the previous August and gained the coveted number 1 slot in the Scottish crime charts with In the Wake of Death. His fourth book The Dead of Winter arrived in March 2017 to glowing reviews. One reviewer likened the novel to a series of Broadchurch. Kate and Phil returned for a brand-new mystery in The Daughter which also sees the return of Donna Barclay.
Work has now begun on the sixth book which will be a new stand-alone project. More information coming soon.
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