To begin with, I have the privilege of sharing with you author Jacquiline Wards top five crime/detective books.
Top Five Crime/Detective Books
1. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
2. Disclaimer by Renee Knight
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
4. Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
5. Just What Kind of Mother are You? By Paula Daly
One child found, one child missing – what's the connection? DS Jan Pearce is still searching for her missing son. When she finds a little girl, Elise, alone in a pram in a busy town centre, she must unravel a mystery that takes her to the edge of her emotions. Then another child, Dara Price, goes missing. Lisa Connelly, Elise's mother, has been forced into a life of prostitution and has been leaving her little girl alone. Her gangland boss is holding her prisoner but she wants her little girl back.
Jan finds herself balancing her search for her son with finding Dara. Her right hand man, Mike Waring, is on another case so she and her temporary partner, profiler Damien Booth, must solve the puzzle and find Lisa before time runs out for Dara. Playlist for a Paper Angel is the second in the DS Jan Pearce series of novels and is the sequel to Random Acts of Unkindness.
Review:
I read this book in four hours, I picked it up at 10 pm one night, thinking I'd read a couple of chapters and couldn't put it down until I finished the last page just before 2 am. It's that good! From the first page the action begins and it picks up pace through out, my heart raced as Jan and her team raced against the clock to find the missing little girl, terrified of what would pan out.
The story is told from two perspectives, we meet Elise's mum very early on and the balance between the reality of what is going on in her life and how the police are conducting their investigation is written beautifully. I love the new character introduced in this book, Dr Damien Booth, a profiler, who helps Jan Pearce see things in a whole new way.
One of the things I love about this author is that she doesn't sugar coat things, the crimes are horrific and she tells it like it is. Honest, raw and at times heartbreaking, Playlist for a Paper Angel is a brilliant read, one that I just can't recommend enough.
Title: Playlist for a Paper Angel (DS Pearce #2)
Author: Jacqueline Ward
Release Date: 27th December 2016
Genre: Crime Detective Fiction
Publisher: Kindle Press
Format: Ebook
