A frozen torso is found on the railway tracks and child’s skull is found in a house. Are these cases connected.
Detective Inspector Lottie Parker and her team are called in.
Two young boys flying a drone find the torso on the tracks and Faye and her boyfriend Jeff are renovating a house left to Jeff by his aunt . Faye decides to bring a wall down and finds the skull .
There are plenty of twists and turns . Plus Lottie also has her own problems to deal with .
Thanks NetGalley

Unfortunately this series is getting a bit stale and repetitive. Perhaps write one from one of the others characters perspective or transfer Lottie somewhere else. Something needs to happen. I only finished this because I'd committed to a netgalley review.

From a prologue that grips you by the hands and drags you deeper within its pages you know this book will keep you captive till its last full stop. When a small skull is found walled up it falls to DI Lottie Parker and her team to investigate. Then a torso is discovered abandoned on a railway line by two school boys. Are they connected and more importantly who are they. If the team discover the identity of the body parts then the why they are dead and who killed them should surely follow. Someone will stop at nothing to keep the identity secret, a secret all the more poignant when it turns out to be the body of a child. Then the fresh killings start, the woman who found the skull Faye is murdered. Can Lottie and her team connect the dots and uncover who is keeping such a grisly secret or will the search for the truth remain out of reach. This is a captivating, tense book that just does not let up its relentless pace towards its goal of unmasking a killer. The book has lots of different ingredients that go towards making it a great thriller and as each one is added it comes together with flourish. Great characters , pace, tension, fear, hate, all are part of the mix.The twist that is added as an extra special ingredient is not just the icing on the cake its the luscious cherry on top of the cake. It’s brilliant, its devious and it lifts the book to a whole different level.

I like a bit of back story in crime books but the previous books in the series do this to excess. Any other police officer would have left the job if it affected their family as much as it does Lottie Parker's. This one laid off on the back story a bit which made for better reading.

The powerhouse of detective writing that is Patricia Gibney keeps rolling with part 8 of the Lottie Parker series. 8 books in a little over three years is pretty impressive especially when the quality remains as high as this.

Ragmullin remains the murder capital of Ireland as a child skull is found hidden in a wall and a short distance away further remains are found. It's pretty clear to Lottie and her team that these crimes were committed years before. But then the people that discovered the remains become victims too. Who ever committed the original killings is still at large....

It's a fantastic series and as compelling as always, this is a great read. It's not an over sell to say this is a must read detective series. If you haven't tried Lottie yet I can't recommend the series enough.

Detective Lottie Parker never seems to catch a break. Along with her three troublesome teenagers and her seriously ill fiancé/work colleague she now has a new boss who has prejudged her and not favourably. The discovery of the bones of a dead child as well as further body parts seems to have stirred up something truly evil in the town of Ragmullin and before long new victims are piling up.
Patricia Gibney is quickly becoming one of my go to authors when I'm looking for a great police procedural where the relationships between the various officers and other regular characters is just as important and enjoyable as the crimes committed. I avidly await the next instalment in this great series.

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This is the 8th book in Patricia Gibney's Detective Lottie Parker series and this series is just so darn good! Yes, it's dark and not for everyone, but I do love my crime fiction and this detective series is one of my favorites!

One of my favorite parts of this series is that we are pulled right into things. Between the cases that the team gets called into and what is going on in Lottie's life, nothing is ever easy. But somehow Lottie manages to juggle it all, though someone on the team isn't too happy with how she is juggling it and is watching her. Will there be trouble down the road for her? Oh and let's not forget that Lottie has a new boss and that is never an easy transition.

As is always the case, we have some sections where we hear from the killer and some of this is done in the past, which just makes it so hard to put the pieces together. I love these sections, as chilling as they tend to be, because I always try to find little clues to see if I can figure out who this person might be, but I've yet to figure it out.

This book is addicting, fast-paced and completely binge-worthy. Things happen with our characters, development-wise, that has me so anxious for the next book. This is why I love this series - you connect with the characters and need to know what is going on with them and having to wait until the next book comes out is agony!!!

Have you started reading this series? If you like police procedurals with good character development, I highly recommend this series.

DIY is not for the fainthearted- especially when you discover a child's skull behind the plaster! Faye is understandably upset when she makes this discovery when doing up the house she & her boyfriend plan to live in.

Two boys loiter on the way to school playing with Jack's drone when they spot something on the railway track. To their horror they discover it is a torso !

Lottie Parker is shocked by the discoveries. When she finds out the torso has been frozen & a clue suggests it may have happened over twenty years ago she still believes that someone somewhere wants answers.

I love Lottie Parker. This is a great series of books I have followed from the beginning. I was really pleased that, as always Lottie has her personal problems, this story didn't impact directly on her family. They have certainly had enough over the years! Another five star read from Patricia Gibney & I'm already eagerly awaiting the next in the series. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

Crime writer extraordinaire Patricia Gibney is back with another spine-chilling and hair-raising thriller featuring one of the genre’s smartest, fiercest and most intelligent heroines: DI Lottie Parker.

When Faye Barker makes the shocking discovery of a child’s skull hidden behind the walls of her new home, the police are called in to investigate. Having moved into the house that had been owned by her boyfriend Jeff’s family for years, Faye is absolutely horrified. She wants to find out who the child was and how their skull ended up hidden behind a wall. Worse, when Jeff begins to act shiftily and suspiciously, Faye’s doubts and insecurities about her boyfriend and his family skyrocket. Something eerie and sinister is going on here, but luckily for Faye, DI Lottie Parker is on the case determined to uncover this tangled and twisted story of old secrets and past demons.

When a child’s bones are found on railway tracks by eleven year old Gavin, Faye realises that she might have something even more terrifying on her hands than she had previously imagined. Although the bones and the child’s skull are not a match, somebody other there is torturing and killing children and Lottie vows to get to the truth of the matter. This is not a mere coincidence and Lottie will not rest until the killer is found and no other child is hurt on her watch. As Lottie continues her investigation, she cannot help but feel uneasy when Faye does not turn up for work and disappears and her suspicions prove correct when Faye’s body is found stuffed in the back of a car. What did the killer have to gain from murdering Faye? And who could have murdered her?

As this case takes yet another terrifying turn when Gavin goes missing, a desperate Lottie continues her search for the truth. But with time not being on her side, will she find the killer before another child is cruelly murdered? Or is it already far too late?

Gritty, harrowing and disturbing, Buried Angels is a creepy, tense and terrifying thriller that is not an easy read and is certainly not one for those who are faint of heart, however, this twisted crime novel will keep readers hooked not just because of the shocking and jaw-dropping revelations that the fabulous Lottie Parker uncovers, but because of its fast-pace, brilliantly written characters and Patricia Gibney’s gift for keeping her readers absolutely glued to the pages of her books.

A writer who gets better with every book she writes, Patricia Gibney has written another top-notch crime thriller with Buried Angels.

Reading these books is like meeting up with old friends.

The plot was full of twists and turns that kept me guessing right to the end. I shared Lottie's frustration as I couldn't work out who it was!

A great book that kept me up late.

Looking forward to the next one.

Detective Inspector Lottie Parker of the Ragmullin Garda is back in this 8th book in the long-running series that I've read from the beginning. She and her colleagues are faced with a very complicated case involving dismembered body parts found around town. A torso on the railway tracks, a skull hidden inside the wall of a house, a partial leg in the canal -- and a long list of possible suspects who are incredibly hard to track down to question. Can Lottie get to the bottom of events that started over 20 years ago?

I've always enjoyed this series but this one seemed overly long and complex with the payoff being a bit of a let down after all that. Way too many characters with relationships to each other that are quite bizarre and stretch credulity a bit. Lottie is the same as always and never seems to make much progress toward getting her home and personal life situated -- there's always something. Does anyone else get irritated by the fact that she can't seem to follow any sort of established procedure or protocol with her police activities and really she should be suspended! Anyway, I'll keep reading this series to see what mayhem is happening next in Ragmullin.

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

Another brilliant book in this series, Great characters and great storyline. I hope there are more books to come.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Nerves, nerves, where for art thou?! I seem to have lost my nerves…either that or they’ve been frayed! I honestly dont quite know what to say! I mean, the previous books in the series havent exactly been all calm and collective, yet this installment seems to have made a deal with the devil or something because it’s dark as hell!!!

There are a lot of things I can handle when it comes to the contents of psychological thrillers/crime novels, however bodies of youngsters is not really one of them! To say that the graphic descriptions surrounding that caught me off guard would be an understatement, however despite feeling quite uncomfortable, I couldn’t tear my eyes away. The storyline reminded me of forbidden fruit; compelling, majestic, but incredibly dark.

Did I enjoy the storyline? Hell yes I did. Lottie Parker is one of my all time favourite detectives as I love the fiery and fierce elements to her personality alongside the uncertain, flawed human being elements which people forget that detectives are. I could tell that her usual bravado was slipping a little during this book because of recent events, but I felt that that added more warmth to her character and upped the ante in the relatbilty stakes.

In regards to the storyline itself, the suspense was outstanding! If possible, i could have easily cut the tension with a knife – there was so much grit to sink my teeth into, whether it made my stomach wary or not. It all just….worked.

I would be quite happy to keep reading the Lottie Parker series until my dying days, as they just keep on getting better and better. Patricia Gibney is a force of nature and her skills are one to watch and admire!

I love this author and this series of books about Detective Lottie Parker and her boyfriend Boyd. As Boyd is currently on sick leave for his cancer treatment Lottie has to go it alone whilst struggling to find a common ground with her new boss to investigate the discovery of a child’s scull in the wall of a house under renovation and then when body parts are found by two children on some train tracks the story takes a darker and more dangerous turn. Can Lottie get to the bottom of who the bodies belong to and who is responsible before there are any more deaths?
You will not be disappointed.

DI Lottie Parker returns in the eighth instalment of the brilliant Lottie Parker series. This time Lottie and her team find themselves investigating a complex tale of buried body parts,murder and hidden secrets that has fingers that reach into the past.

When Faye Barker discovers a child's skull buried in the wall of her new home, she is understandably shocked and wants to report her find to the police. Her boyfriend Jeff insists that it is a fake and therefore it would be pointless to report it and a complete waste of police time. Faye is not happy with his decision and after a argument she goes against his wishes and reports her find to the police. But on her way home from the station,she mysteriously disappears.

Meanwhile, two schoolboys Gavin and Jack discover what turns out to be the torso of a young girl on the nearby railway tracks. The bones don't match the small skull that Faye discovered behind the walls but Lottie is certain that the bones are connected to the same case.

Then Faye's body is discovered in the boot of her car and Gavin disappears launching Lottie and her team into a desperate race to uncover the truth before time runs out on another innocent life.

This totally enthralling thriller is voiced from the perspectives of numerous characters including Lottie, Faye and a nasty individual named Kevin. As well as dealing with the complex twists and turns of the case Lottie also had the added worry of Boyd's continuing battle with leukaemia and what was going to happen to Grace now that Boyd and Grace's mother was dead. whilst at work Lottie had the added issues of a new Superintendent who had taken a instant dislike to her and a member of her own team who was hellbent on stirring up trouble and causing her problems. Lottie was a fantastic, realistic character who experienced a myriad of believable emotions as the heart breaking case unfolded. as the story unfolded, I personally couldn't decide whether I liked her or not. The secondary characters were a mixed bag of diverse individuals, some likeable, some not so likeable and some were definitely not who they appeared to be and were harbouring secrets. Interspersed throughout the story was chapters that slipped back in time twenty years and were voiced by a terrified fourteen year old but who was that person and how did they fit into the story that was unfolding in the present day?

Although this is the eighth book in this brilliant series, it can be read and enjoyed as a standalone. It is a extremely well written, tightly plotted police procedural that played with the reader's emotions, kept you guessing and frantically turning the pages. I thought this was a gripping, enjoyable read and I would quite happily recommend it to anyone who enjoys a really good police procedural/thriller.

Buried Angles by Patricia Gibney is the 8th in the Detective Lottie Parker series which is a police procedural revolving around Lottie, as the main character, but with a full ensemble cast rounding out the mi. It takes place in Ireland, but could take place anywhere; murder is murder. Twenty years ago two young girls and their mother will killed, stabbed, in a bloody mess. The son and the father were missing, never found, guilty? All of a sudden people start dying. At first there is no connection, but then odd bits start fitting together. Soon Lottie and her team would discover the truth but would it be enough to save her from her own roguish ways as a too-independent investigator.

The addition of Lottie's personal life makes for compelling reading. As any middle-aged woman can attest...lots has gone on before. She has kids, she has a dead husband, she has a new fiancé, and she works far too much for any of them. She follows her nose and has her own rules. She solves this crime, as she always does, but she broke rules along the way, and possibly got people killed. Her new boss doesn't like the way she works. She did, however, solve a complicated crime, an excellent mystery. She is not sure she can survive her own life, let alone her job. This is a compelling read, an excellent mystery, and terrific characters. I recommend it. In fact, go back and read the others.

I received a free ARC of Buried Angels from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions and interpretations contained herein are solely my own. #netgalley #buriedangels

I always look forward to the release of the next Lottie Parker book. Set in the midlands of Ireland there’s always that feeling of a cross over between a big city and small village. The crimes are always big, and complex. The issues raised are always quite personal, whether it’s for the victims, perpetrators, witnesses, or the investigation team. In fact Patricia Gibney writes about the personal tortures better than just about everybody else.

This story starts with one of those personal tortures, a family conflict. A young woman is renovating a house left to her husband. When she breaks through a wall, into a boarded off alcove, she finds a skull, and she’s convinced it’s human. Her husband disagrees, and convinces her it’s a toy and that she shouldn’t call the police.

Meanwhile two boys are playing with a drone over a quiet railway line. When they spot something on the camera they soon realise it’s a body. When the police arrive they find it’s a headless body that has been frozen.

As more body parts start to be discovered the team find out that they are trying to put more than 1 jigsaw back together.

What starts of with a skeletal skull and a frozen torso soon escalates. Although the body parts are old somebody must be responsible for dumping the frozen torso, and other bits as they start to be discovered. It doesn’t matter when the murders took place, somebody today is moving things around. Why now.

Another thing Patricia Gibney is really good at is making complex plots with relatively small pools of characters. With crimes happening in a small town this has to be the case. There is not so much 6 degrees of separation as 2 or 3, and it works brilliantly. The way she weaves the strand of the plot you never really know what’s coming next. Revelations lead to revelations. Relationships are normal except when you least expect it.

Her biggest skill is always making you think. Where did that come from, followed quickly by, how did I not see that coming.

Everything works, everything is realistic, and just like the body jigsaws in this book, all the pieces fit together and you sit back and think, what an amazing picture that has painted.

Can you tell I loved this book.

Yes it’s book 8 in a series.
Yes it can be read as a stand-alone
Yes you should read the other 7, and if this is your first Lottie Parker book I’m pretty sure you’ll be getting your hands on them.

This is another great read from Patricia Gibney. I raced through it staying up very late into the night as I could bare to put it down. It is the eighth book in the Lottie Parker series. They just keep getting better in my opinion. Unlike other authors Patricia Gibney does not get lost along the way in her novels, she never goes off on tangents and age leaves no loose ends. Though there were a lot of characters in Buried Angels I felt she needed each one. They each had a role and contributed positively to the plot. There were plenty of twists and turns here to keep the reader completely hooked- the discovery of the child’s skull, Jeff’s suspicious behaviour, the discovery of the second child’s remains, Faye’s disappearance. So much is going on and yet Gibney ties everything up very well in the end. I really enjoyed this thrilling read. 5⭐️ From me!!

I am a huge fan of this series, and I was delighted to be back with Lottie and her team. With Boyd on sick leave and a new Superintendent, the dynamic this time around is slightly different, but Lottie is still the maverick detective I have come to know so well. Her family still feel as though they could be my own family and I love the new glimpses we get into their lives with each new addition to the series. 

Buried Angels has more twists and turns than an attraction at Alton Towers and I loved trying to unpick it all to figure out what was happening. As the death count rises, the investigation seems to involve more and more people, and I was crossing my fingers that everyone would be safe. I couldn't go to bed until I had got to the bottom of this complex story. 

Gibney is brilliant at creating characters that get under the reader's skin. Through the characters involved in the investigation, she is able to explore important issues. In this novel, we learn more about social media and influencing, and domestic violence. Gibney portrays these issues very realistically and they add an extra layer to an already rich novel.

This has become one of my favourite detective series' and DI Lottie Parker is one of my much loved detectives, despite her somewhat tetchy and snarky personality and that her children always take second place in her very busy life when work takes priority.

In this eighth enthralling instalment, Lottie must investigate after a child's skull is found by Faye Baker behind the plasterboarded walls of the old house she has just begun to renovate. Then a frozen torso is found on the railway by eleven-year-old Gavin and Lottie suddenly has a lot on her plate trying to piece together a demanding and formidable puzzle that dates back twenty years or more. When Faye’s body is found stuffed in the back of her car and Gavin disappears, Lottie knows she needs to find the answers very swiftly, before another life is extinguished.

Harboured secrets, humongous lies and dysfunctional families all feature in this outstanding and intoxicating police procedural. Lottie and her team have a stressful time trying to identify the victims let alone the murderer(s). With a key staff member, fiancé DS Mark Boyd on extended leave for medical reasons, Lottie's resources are stretched to the limit causing resentment within the ranks and the wrath of her new boss, Superintendent Deborah Farrell, who is a stickler for procedure. With it's expertly executed plot this complex, dark tale had me desperately flicking the pages on my kindle to reach the eye-popping, neatly tied-up denouement.

I received a complimentary copy of this novel at my request from Bookouture via NetGalley and this review is my unbiased opinion.