I’ve been through a bit of a reading lull recently and was finding it hard to get into books, unusual for me as I’ll tend to read at least 2 a week.
I googled authors similar to Greg Iles, my favourite US crime author, and Erica Spindler came up at the top of several reviewers suggestions.
I wasn’t disappointed.
The Detectives Daughter is my first of her books, and it held me from page one.
A fast paced story which never wonders into the fanciful, or impossible.
The story of two murders linked by two families and two detectives.
The first led to the older detective’s untimely resignation and death. The crime he never solved.
His daughter, now also a detective has always wanted to look at the crime again, but when a murder brings some of the same people into the spotlight she has her chance.
Will it finish her career of also.
Based in New Orleans Detective Quinn Conners is a no nonsense murder detective. Following in her father’s footsteps she deals with crime in Americas Deep South.
Called to a shooting at a party it first appears to be an open-an-shut case, but soon things start to look a bit more complicated.
One of the families involved was also involved in the case that haunted her father to his grave.
Although years apart the cases seem to be connected.
The problem is there’s some New Orleans Old Family money involved.
I have to say that I thought the ending to the plot was a bit telegraphed, until my hypothesis proved only partially right. But this didn’t spoil the story. In fact it added to it because all of a sudden the plot took another turn, and the story that gripped me from the start held on to me tightly until the end.
Publisher: Double Shot Press. Pages: 458
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