This is the fourth book written by Patricia Gibney and it’s the fourth book of hers that I have really enjoyed. I absolutely loved it but more about that in a bit.
I really felt for Detective Inspector Lottie Parker. She is a middle aged, dedicated police officer who is also a loving mother to her children and to her grandchild. She is feeling the pressure from all directions. Her job demands a high level of commitment but at the same time she wants a family life too. I got the impression that she has her work/ life balance a bit skew wiff at the moment. The behaviour of one of her daughters is concerning her at the moment too. Not only that but things are not all rosy at work either. Lottie’s boss has to take some time off with immediate effect and Lottie is disappointed to hear that not only has she been passed over for temporary promotion but the temporary replacement is somebody that Lottie has crossed swords with in the past. Lottie takes on the initial missing person case to the opposition of one of her team members, who doesn’t see why they should start to investigate when the misper hasn’t been missing for 48 hours yet. Something about the misper cases rings a little alarm bell for Lottie and she strives to do what she can to investigate and solve the case of the misper before anybody else goes missing. However it isn’t long before other women start disappearing. Lottie is determined and strong but she often places herself in danger whilst she is investigating a case and these misper cases are no different. Is the killer close than she thought? Just who is it that has abducted the missing women? Will Lottie survive? Well for the answers to those questions and more you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves to find out as I am not going to tell you.
To say that I was excited about reading ‘No Safe Place’ has to be the understatement of the year. Let’s just say the happy dance was not pretty and was thankfully only witnessed by my two Labradors. I was addicted to reading ‘No Safe Place’ from the moment I picked my Kindle up to the moment I put it down again, never mind from the moment I started reading. The Prologue is sufficiently creepy and dramatic enough to grab your attention from the start and because you are intrigued to find out how the story is going to pan out, you just keep on reading and reading and reading. The story certainly hits the ground running and maintains the pace throughout. Reading this book became an addiction for me and before I knew it I had finished the book, which I was so disappointed about. By that I mean that I was enjoying the story, the writing style and the characters so much that I just wanted the book to continue. ‘No Safe Place’ is one hell of a very unpredictable rollercoaster read with lots of twists, turns, moments where you don’t realise what is happening until after it has happened and moments where you just want to put your hands over your eyes as you dread what is going to happen. I was totally gripped by the story and I immersed myself in the investigation. ‘No Safe Place’ is so well written that I began to think that I was actually part of the story and I started to feel the emotions that the different characters felt. When the drama and level of tension increased, then so did my heart rate and when I got to a dramatic part of the book, I held my breath in anticipation of what was going to happen next. I genuinely began to fear for the safety of Lottie and her team.
In short I absolutely loved reading ‘No Safe Place’ and I strongly recommend this author and this series to anybody and everybody. I can’t wait to read what comes next from Patricia Gibney. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.

This review is written with thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for my copy of the book.
Detective Inspector (DI) Lottie Parker returns in No Safe Place, to the discovery of a body in an open grave. She believes it could be that of missing woman, Elizabeth Byrne. But Elizabeth is not the only woman to go missing, and with her boss, Superintendent Corrigan off sick, she needs to impress his replacement quickly. Before Corrigan leaves, he tells Lottie to look at the files from the case of Lynn O'Donnell, a young woman who disappeared in similar circumstances ten years ago. In a race against time to find Elizabeth's killer, will Lottie get to the truth before he strikes again?
DI Lottie Parker is a borderline alcoholic who likes to self-medicate. Some of her decisions as a detective are rather rash. I shouldn't like her character, and I certainly shouldn't approve of her methods, but I do - a lot - and I'm glad she's back. Her flaws are evident in spades in No Safe Place, but I cannot help but root for her. The revelations about her family at the end of The Lost Child are clearly plaguing her, and this also made me sympathetic towards her. The introduction of a new boss in McMahon, and her relationship with Boyd also provide challenges for Lottie, which I am looking forward to reading more about as the series continues.
Many of the investigations in this series take on a personal element for the detectives involved, and No Safe Place is no different. This allows the detectives to take on more "human" characteristics, and this gives the investigations an edge, which guarantees a white knuckle ride as you read.
The case which Lottie is investigating in No Safe Place has many different elements to it, but I enjoyed this, as it allowed me to meet more residents of Ragmullin, and created a sense of intrigue which is carried all the way through the novel until the case is resolved. It is one of the more graphic novels in this series, but I loved this, as it gave me insight into the mind of a highly disturbed perpetrator.

WoW.......No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney is the Fourth book of Detective Lottie Parker and I found it to be the best book of the series so far. WoW, I just loved it. It was gritty, fast paced and I just loved the way Patrica told more of Detective Lottie's personal life with her children, her mother and Boyd who she works with!. Plus, looking forward to learn more about the surprise phone call Lottie got from oversea's.
A female member of travelling community hears screams in the middle of the night from the cemetery that is close by to where she lives. Could it be a Banshee? This is where the story begins. A young girl has gone missing whilst travelling on a train. A naked body is found in a freshly dug grave just as a funeral was going to take place. Detective Lottie and Boyd are called to the crime scene.
An unsolved case of 10 years is re opened. Has this new case got similarities? Could history be repeating itself? especially as Valentines day is just round the corner........Then two more women go missing from Ragmullin, Detective Lottie and her team fear there is a serial killer on the loose. Will they find these young girls alive in time?

WoW, this book is Just Brilliant. Patricia Gibney books just get better and Better. If I could give this book 10/10 I would.
But Big Fat 5 stars

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Ahhhh. Lottie Parker. Quite possibly one of the very definitions of dysfunctional. She has a terribly complicated family life, a mother who drives her insane, children who have all been through the mill in one way or another and deals with the grief for the loss of her husband by a daily dose of Xanax and alcohol. When it comes to the personal she is as disorganised as they come and yet she is a keen Detective and very capable, often pulling a result from the very ashes of the fires she has invariably set burning. This time, it would appear that has been taken quite literally. There is just something about her that I love and I love the way in which author Patricia Gibney has continued to develop her character and back story throughout each book, finding new and inventive ways to turn that screw just one more millimeter each time.

With No Safe Place this is especially true. Still trying to fully recover from events in the previous book, The Lost Child, Lottie has her mother to contend with, a daughter who is intent on visiting her child's grandfather in New York and her are they or aren't they relationship with Boyd as well as they worrying news that an old work colleague and rival, David McMahon is taking over from Superintendent Corrigan and looks set to make Lottie's life hell. Another typical day in the office then.

The central story focuses around a young girl who has been reported missing by her mother. Although the mandatory time hs not yet past, there is something about the case which has Lottie on edge and she begins to look into it anyway. When Corrigan informs her that the case bears a startling resemblance to an old case he worked ten years before which was never solved, and when another young woman, one of the Traveller community reports hearing screaming in a nearby cemetary, Lottie is more convinced than ever that something is a foot. When another girl subsequently goes missing and the case turns very personal for one of the team, Lottie has a battle on her hands trying to find out what links them all before it is too late.

With this book, the author has done a great job of reflecting upon the prejudices which exist within society, in particular those which are linked to the Traveller community. They are naturally suspicious of the Police and the Police are almost programmed to imagine the worst of them. It is a delicate balance and one that Lottie finds hard to manage, even though she is beautifully open minded about the people she is dealing with. It also touches upon subjects such as domestic violence and rape, albeit in a very minor way and barely on the page, more referenced than present in the moment as it were. None of it is gratuitous and all lends itself to the plot.

With the story told in third person, it allows us moments where we follow not only Lottie and the investigation, but also the perpetrator and in those moments we get a chilling glimpse of how calculating they are but not necessarily what has driven them to do what they do. And although we deduce the bad guy is just that, a guy, there are no end of suspects that it could be and you will be kept guessing and second guessing yourself from the start to the finish.

Now there are some very sad moments in the story but again not dealt with in a glorified or nasty way, but it does still make you reflect at times. But there are also moments where Patricia Gibney has created such tension that you will be poised on the edge of your seat, waiting to see what will happen and how Lottie will come good, if indeed she does ...

This is a brilliantly written tale of jealousy, prejudice, misunderstanding and even perhaps rage and a brilliant addition to the series. Oh and the ending. Made me smile. I can only imagine what that is going to lead to for our poor heroine. As if life wasn't complicated enough already!

The first thing I want to say is go Buy, Buy, Buy, if you haven’t read any of the Detective Lottie series what are you waiting for, your missing out, its a series which will leave you wanting more, desperation will set in while waiting for the next instalment. Okay that the desperation may just be me, I just love the writings of Patricia
Gibney.

The day that I found out that No Safe Place was the next Lottie book was bloody memorable, I literally was happy dancing around the internet, the anticipation of getting my hands on a copy was almost unbearable, then bang its there, mine to read.

Okay, okay lets get on and see what Patricia Gibney has in store for us with Detective Lottie Parker in book four.

Opening the first pages it clear that Patricia has a flipping amazing plotline evolving throughout the pages of the book. Damn it was hard to leave alone, work, family commitments all wanted to get in the way, but there was no chance that was happening it was my destiny to devour the book in one huge gulp.

A body of a young woman in a freshly dug grave, discovered just as an older woman of Ragmullin is to be laid to rest, there is my slam dunk straight away. It becomes apparent that there are links to the local train station, young women are disappearing, also a similar case years previously bears the same hallmarks, can Lottie and her team solve this grizzly crime and prevent other women from vanishing.

Poor Lottie has returned back to work from time off recuperating, nothing is coming easy, her boss is going on a medical leave of absence and the powers that be have decided Lottie is too unstable and volatile to oversee the team. His successor is a man that will have no qualms in trying to humiliate Lottie.

There was more insight to Lottie and Boyd’s relationship, its apparent that Boyd has a definite soft spot for Lottie, I just wish Lottie would give Boyd a break they are so made for each other. Patricia you need to bring the two together, I can’t bear the fact they are so lonely, they are such a crack team.

Overall Patricia has produced the ultimate crime book. An unbearable tension, No Safe Place tightens its grip on my imagination, sailing through the pages I became part of Lottie, her sidekick, untangling the clues, waiting for Lottie to direct my attention to the criminal entity.

Thank you to Bookouture, Patricia Gibney and Kim Nash for giving me the opportunity to read and review an advanced readers copy of No Safe Place, allowing me to take part in the Blog Blitz.

One last thing I don’t know if I mentioned it but go Buy, Buy, Buy No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney. Here’s the links to help you on your way:
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Book four in this brilliant series has Lottie back at work after a serious stab wound, she is still coming to terms with everything that came out about her father and his involvement in her previous case and things are still very raw with her mother after Lottie found out that she was not the woman she once thought she was. So here she is still popping pills and drinking when she finds out that her boss must go on medical leave and they’re sending a replacement that Lottie knows well and can’t stand. Add into this a terrier like journalist and the will she won’t she with Boyd, Lottie’s hands are already full when a young womans body is found in an open grave. Lottie must put all of this aside and try and find the killer. The case seems to hold similarities to a case from almost 10 years ago to the day and Lottie must try and cross the two cases to find her killer. This book is very fast paced and well thought out. There were some well-placed red herrings which I dutifully grabbed hold of and found myself barking up the wrong tree.
Lottie is not a warm and fuzzy character but you cannot help but empathise with her as she presses her own self-destruct button over and over. Boyd is also a favourite character of mine I love the camaraderie that he and Lottie share.
As an Irish reader I love the honest portrayal of the country and the people and especially the language. I can honestly say I think this is the first time I have ever seen the word “streeling” used in a book and I loved it!
I cannot wait to read more of this brilliant series.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for a copy of this book to read and review

Hoo boy, can Patricia Gibney spin a tale or what?!

The body of a young woman is found in a grave that was most definitely not meant for her. Could this be Elizabeth Byrne, who never made it home after a day’s work in Dublin? DI Lottie Parker is called in to investigate. It soon looks as if there may be a connection to a ten year old cold case. But with a new boss, who clearly has it in for her, breathing down her neck and a journalist on a mission, will Lottie Parker be able to focus enough to solve these cases?

On top of all of that, Lottie has quite a lot going on at home as well. Katie would like to take her son to see his grandfather in New York and Chloe is being your typical teenager. There is Lottie’s complicated relationship with Rose and someone she didn’t expect to see again returns to the village. Quite frankly, with a few secret vices as well, it’s a miracle she’s functioning at all.

This is one of those series that hooked me right from the start and with each new addition, it just keeps getting better and better. The investigations are always fascinating and gripping with realistic and incredibly well-developed characters all around. This case here is a rather disturbing tale of jealousy, prejudice and forbidden love with its roots fixed firmly in the past, as I’ve come to expect from Patricia Gibney.

There is so much going on in this story, my head was spinning. There are various layers and threads that may or may not be connected. I couldn’t figure it out at all, especially as there is a rather long list of despicable characters I’d quite happily have throttled myself and each and every one of them makes for a viable suspect. Very little pleases me more than a story that keeps me guessing until the end.

Thoroughly enjoyed this gripping instalment and I can’t wait for the next book! If you’re not reading these, you definitely should be. Now if only Lottie could just get her act together, that’d be grand. 😄

4 Killer Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟

This is the fourth book in the Lottie Parker series... and confession time I didn’t read the three previous books, but the good news is I still really enjoyed this book and now I want to go back and read the previous three.... police procedurals are kind of a hit or miss with me and this was an absolute hit! What I believe made the difference was Lottie herself.... I absolutely adored her flaws and all.... she kind of reminded me of a female Harry Bosch my favorite flawed detective of all time..... they also have some very similar flaws as well.... so other than the female/male thing and Los Angeles/Ireland thing they’re practically the same person.... OK well maybe not, but close enough that I became an instant fan of this series as well....

Young women are disappearing with their last known location the train.... people are hearing loud banshee screens in the middle of the night.... after several bodies have been discovered and there is a Erie similarity to a murder/disappearance that happened 10 years ago.... people begin to wonder do we have a serial killer on our hands? The case in this book was very intriguing and quite dark.... even though you know who done it pretty early on, how everything unraveled was super compelling and kept me turning those pages quickly.... I was extremely satisfied with how things tied up in the end.... however there are some loose ends that definitely leave room for some interesting things in the next book.... I realize that’s a little cryptic and a little contradictory, but you’ll understand when you finish this book....

From what I understand from reading some reviews the previous books focus a lot more on Lotties personal life.... I would have really enjoyed that, I loved all the parts of this book where there was interaction between her and her children.... there was some focus on Boyd and his relationship with his sister Grace that I loved... I had a bit of a soft spot for Grace and I loved how protective and loving Boyd was towards her.... also there was Boyd and Lotties relationship, and from what I gather this has been on again off again throughout the series.... at least it’s not a love triangle, and I’m rooting for them I always love the HEA.....

Absolutely recommend to fans of the series, fans of police procedurals, and fans of fabulously flawed characters...

*** thank you too Bookouture and Net Galley for a copy of this book ***

"Love can do strange things to people."

DI Lottie Parker has her hands full. A recently dead body found in an open grave, a missing girl and a stand-in boss who won't let her chase her cases in her own way. Not to mention the usual havoc on the home front -- it's not easy working full stop when you're a widow with 3 children and a new grandson. Lottie's life is very complicated and she doesn't always handle things..."a past master at burying emotional turmoil deep beneath the mundanity of everyday life." Some of those events have led her to pills and drink but she's trying hard to get a handle on that even while holding her partner, (and maybe a new love) DS Boyd, at arm's length.

During the course of the investigations, a ten years old missing persons case looks to have some similarity to the current situation. It's coming up on the anniversary date of when Lynn O'Donnell got off the train in Ragmullin and was never seen again. It seems that the girl in the grave, Elizabeth, and the missing girl, Mollie, were also on the train before they went missing. DON'T TAKE THE TRAIN FROM DUBLIN TO RAGMULLIN...

This is so much more than a hunt for missing girls or to solve a murder. The investigation by Lottie and her team is complicated and tedious. There is definitely something rotten in Ragmullin and the menace is probably in their midst. Although you may figure out where this is going, the process is excellent police procedural.

I note that others have said that this can be read as a standalone, but I disagree. There is too much of Lottie's backstory that gives history for her behaviors both professionally and personally. I have read #1, #3 and unfortunately missed #2 -- which I need to rectify. I want to know ALL about Lottie. Can't wait for the next in this great series.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.

Thank you very much to netGalley and Bookouture for the advance copy of No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney my review is honest and unbiased in any way.
I am a huge fan of Patricia Gibney's books so I was dying to read the 4th installment in the Lottie Parker series. I really enjoyed learning more about her past and her character in this book as well as trying to figure out who the culprit was and I loved the chemistry between Lottie and Boyd, a fantastic read can't wait for more!!!

I really loved this book! Excellent story with brilliant main characters. I would recommend this book.

I sort of like a flawed main character, but Lottie has so very many flaws she can be really difficult to like. Although I usually enjoy this series and in particular really enjoyed this book, I really feel like the author could benefit from an editing eye. There is just too much plot and the length of book makes it almost overwhelming. This has been my favorite of the series but still suffers from a case of “too much.”

No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney
D.I. Lottie Parker #4

Polished police procedural set in small town Ireland stars D.I. Lottie Parker in her fourth case. Coming into this series on this book was okay but I did find mentions of events and people that must have been important in previous books. If given the chance I believe reading previous books would be beneficial though not essential.

Lottie: a widow with three teenage children – one an unwed mother is a detective inspector that is perhaps not the best loved member of her team but does seem to get the job done. She is somewhat acerbic, pithy and has a temper. I picked up that she may have issues with alcohol and prescription drugs and is still mourning the loss of her husband while not on good terms with many of her family members…including her mother.

This story started out with a woman running for her life and the story didn’t slow down till the end. Young women abducted and treated badly but why? Why were some killed? What about the case that occurred similarly ten years before? And the travelers…how did they fit in? The gravedigger and the priest and the people on the train and…well…so many threads to follow but follow them I did. And then, why were some women being beaten up and even killed in a side story that proved related? This was a complex story with many characters, subplots, red herrings, work and family related issues and…well…all I can say is “well done!”. I may not LOVE Lottie but I do admire her. I think the interim boss she has to deal with is a pain in the patoot and hope he won’t be there long. There is a hook at the end of the book that infers Lottie may have a relative from the USA coming to visit – wonder what that will be about and also wonder if she and Boyd will find themselves in a relationship eventually.

Did I like this book? Yes
Would I like to read more books by this author/in this series? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

So... we're at book four now and I still haven't warmed to Lottie. I am beginning to think that it's just not going to happen. And that's OK as my feelings towards her don't seem to mar my enjoyment of this series one little bit. The rest of what is provided by the author - the story, the other characters, the delivery - appears to be enough to keep me reading. Strange but true!
Anyway, as it is book four and, as Lottie for all her sins is a bit complex (and getting worse imo), you would be better off starting at book one and reading in order to get the very best/worst from her as a character!
So, whilst she is supposed to be looking for a missing woman, Lottie intercepts a young traveller woman in the Police station. She tells her that she isn't being listened to but she heard a scream in the night coming from the graveyard near where she lives. Lottie believes her and, despite being supposed to be doing other things, takes a ride out there where she sees a funeral taking place. Cut to the chase and there's a body already in the soon to be filled grave. But is it the woman they have been looking for?
Back at the station and Lottie has a shock in store for her as her boss is off having medical treatment, who should be drafted in as his replacement but her nemesis McMahon. To say there is no love lost between the two would be the understatement of the year.
Meanwhile things are getting interesting at home for Lottie and she has to make some difficult decisions in her handling of things that are going on there.
And then, if all that wasn't hard enough, there's Boyd...
As already mentioned, all the rest of what goes on around and about Lottie means that not liking her doesn't matter. If the stories weren't as good, if the other characters didn't stand up as well, if the balance was off, it would be another matter entirely. But they do, and then some. I think I have said in a review for a previous book in this series, I do like Boyd, as a character, I really like him. And he likes Lottie so I guess I cut her a bit more slack that I would usually give a main character. I guess in my own special way I kind of respect her, faults and all, I mean, at the end of the day, she does do a good job, even though her ways and means are, at times, a bit on the dubious side. She's been dealt a rough hand all told so I guess she's just doing the best she can.
The story here is quite convoluted but very well plotted and executed. We have the missing woman in the present and also a ten year old cold case of another missing young woman. There are similarities between the two which leads Lottie to believe there's a connection. She is not encouraged in her musings however and is almost in danger of being scuppered both by her new boss and also a really rather nasty journalist, both of whom seem to have it against her. I almost started to warm to her at one point in solidarity but then she went and did something that I didn't like so that feeling was lost once again!
I actually think that this is the best book so far in this series. It's definitely, for me anyway, the most balanced with regard to work and home life for Lottie. It's fast paced and mostly action packed, the punches coming at you hard and fast and regularly. But there are also the necessary quieter moments which allowed me a bit of well needed respite at times. Part of me wishes the same respite for Lottie but I think if she did get a break, she wouldn't know what to do with it!
All in all a solid addition to and already good series, roll on book 5!
My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Now this book was amazing!! The plot was brilliant, and unique! It was a fast paced thriller from beginning to end! I could not put it down!! I still have chills after reading it!

Book four in the series begins with a young woman’s body found in an open grave. Lottie is back at work after recovering from a knife wound. But her boss had just gone out on medical leave. The powers that be don’t trust Lottie to run things in his absence and have brought in someone she can’t stand. Not that Lottie can stand many people. She’s struggling with some of her staff. Things do appear slightly calmer on the home front, other than dealing with her mother, but she’s still drinking and popping pills. And things are up in the air with Boyd.

This is a depressing book. Everyone’s life is for sh*t. The new boss, McMahon, is truly a piece of work and I felt every bit of Lottie’s tension when she was forced to interact with him. And she’s not doing much better with a new tv reporter. In fact, part of the real bonding I do with Lottie is over her attempts not to kill people like these two.

I’ve truly loved the previous three books in the series. This one is good, but it lacked something that I can’t quite put my finger on. It’s not as suspenseful as the others. You’re given a fairly good inkling early on about who’s the villain.

My thanks to netgalley and Bookouture for an advance copy of this book.

I would like to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘No Safe Place’ written by Patricia Gibney in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Elizabeth Byrne is last seen on the 5.10 Dublin to Ragmullin train. When her body is found lying at the bottom of a grave her leg is broken and she’s died from suffocation after being covered with clay. DI Lottie Parker, DS Mark Boyd and the team are called in to investigate but Lottie is also asked to look through the file of another woman, Lynn O’Donnell, who disappeared in similar circumstances ten years ago to the day and whose body was never found.
‘No Safe Place’ is a gripping police thriller with a tense plot, full of drama and lots of action. I’ve enjoyed reading once more of Lottie and Boyd and their burgeoning relationship as I feel my understanding of their characters increases with each novel. The plot is cleverly thought-out, there are lots of twists and turns and enough credible suspects to keep me guessing. Patricia Gibney has finished the novel perfectly placed for another in the series which I’m looking forward to.

Another dark, but highly enjoyable book about detective Lottie Parker. Patricia Gibney keeps going strong. She manages to capture the reader's attention using the same combination of a tight story and sympathetic but flawed characters. Even though objectively speaking, Lottie Parker often tends to make a mess of both her professional and personal life, she is so life-like you always want her to come out on top. She is flawed but driven, as are all the others in her novels. The storyline of this one centres around family relations and jealousy but I don't want to give away more. You should just find out for yourself.

“As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate.”
This is another great Lottie Parker book.
I love this series and it just gets better and better.
Lottie, Boyd and the team are trying to work out who has murdered the woman in the grave when another body turns up and has shocking implications for a cold case from ten years ago.
While the hunt for a murderer is on, Lottie must also try and find a missing woman who disappeared after getting off a train.
It’s a real race against time and the final few chapters had me on the edge of my seat.
Lottie also has a new boss to contend with and he’s definitely not her number one fan!
As always with this series there’s lots going on at home and the repercussions of Lottie’s discovery about her mum are still reverberating around the family.
This is a gripping read with a few shocks and twists in store....
Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

Nothing like finding a body in a grave when you get ready to lower a casket into an already occupied grave. Such is the beginning of this book. There’s nothing greater than receiving a free book from #NetGalley and finding what you think might be your new favorite author until you are so into the story that you buy the first one in the series while you are still reading book four. That is until you later find out that you already have that book! Well I know a great writer when I read a great book and obviously I love Patricia Gibney. Now I just have to get books 2 and 3. No Safe Place is nonstop action from beginning to end and the stars of the show are DI Lottie Parker and DS Boyd who have a little thing going. You really get into the heart of the characters and they end up like being part of your family with all their trials and triumphs. The main theme is about girls going missing which also coincides with the ten year anniversary of another young girl who went missing and the case was never resolved - no body or bones were ever found. The bad guys are really bad and would be people you would never want to meet anywhere even with other people around. This is truly a great book that you hate coming to the end but I feel there will be more coming in this series. A great job Patricia Gibney!