Just one question. Why have I never read this author before. This is book 10 in the Detective Lottie Parker Series but worked well as a stand-alone. I loved it. It’s a great police procedural thriller, exceptionally well written and a pleasure to read. The characterisations are great. I loved all the characters in Lottie’s team; in particular their banter and personal interactions. That’s not to say I actually liked all of them. I didn’t but in a team that size there has to be at least one not so pleasant character.

Briefly, the story revolves around the murder of Isabel Gallagher who was found by her mother, lying dead and mutilated next to the screaming body of her baby. Shortly afterwards another woman, Joyce Breslin goes missing and her four year old son is abducted from his child carer. With the team investigating all three cases they are under pressure and then a woman comes to the station with what appears to be a child’s bone; she found it buried on a nearby hill that was suppose to have mystical properties. Can the team find Joyce and her son alive? Are all the cases related in some way?

The twist and turns in this book are enough to make you dizzy. I certainly changed my mind a number of times while I was reading the book. It was clear that the murderer was a psychopath, with no feelings for anyone; but just who was it? So many characters seemed devoid of empathy. This really was a fabulous read and worthy of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. My kindle hasn’t seen the last of this author.

Thanks to the author, NetGalley, and Bookouture for this free eCopy in exchange for an honest review.

I was very excited to get the opportunity to review Little Bones as I thought the plot sounded very exciting and I was not disappointed. It was a fantastic read and I can't wait to read more from the author in the future.

Wow! This is the tenth book in the Lottie Parker series and it’s still as sharp as the first. Patricia Gibney continues to delight with well thought out police procedurals. Lottie is involved in two different investigations - a woman murdered in her own home, her four month old child in the same room; and a missing woman and her four year old boy, who have gone missing separately. There is some weird connection between the two women involving razor blades but Lottie can’t figure out the link.
The book moves at a brisk pace. There are lots of avenues to be explored and possible suspects, including a controlling husband. As Lottie thinks at one point, “the threads of the investigation were snaking out all over the place instead of being wound into a spool. It was turning into a logistical nightmare.” And oh, how right she was!
On top of this, there’s lots of personal drama going on within the team. And another cliffhanger at the end.
This book can be read as a standalone but it will mean the reader misses out on some of the pertinent background.
I recommend this for fans of police procedurals with interesting team dynamics and fully fleshed out characters.
My thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for an advance copy of this book.

Baddies, watch out, because Lottie won't rest until she has you where she wants you: behind bars!
For the 10th time already, the author takes us to Ireland where Lottie and her team are facing another gruesome case.

A police investigation is like a jigsaw puzzle. The team has to fit all the pieces of information together in order to find the culprit and different departments often have to join forces. It would of course be easy peasy if all the clues could be found in one place, but here a treasure hunt is added to the mix. It seems like this time Lottie faces a lot of people who are masters in not showing the back of their tongues and the puzzle only gets more complicated while the clock keeps ticking faster and faster.

A police team should also be a well oiled machine where there is a good atmosphere, but when things go a bit topsy turvy Lottie is obliged to take measures. Not great at a time where she can use every pair of hands…
At last but not least police officers are not machines. They also have a personal life to deal with and unfortunately those things are often put on the back burner. Works comes first because the bad guys never sleep.

When the killer is caught everybody is happy, me included, but I do wonder whether some people could have stopped all this from happening if they had intervened long before everything went out of hand. Aren’t they as much to blame??? In my opinion yes, they are and I hope they don’t got off scot free.

A great story with plenty of suspects to choose from and a few very heart breaking moments. 5 stars

Thank you

I know it’s a cliché but I really could not put this book down. I love Patricia Gibney’s Lottie Parker series so was very happy to review this, the tenth book in the series. Don’t let the fact that it is so far along in the series put you off. It is readable as a standalone although if haven’t read the previous nine books you are missing out.
Gibney is the master of the cliff hanger. How about this “Joyce was certain this would be the last day of her life. By the end of the day, she would be wishing this was true.” What a start!
No one is perfect in this book and that just makes you empathise and care about the characters more. Lottie and her team all have their problems, their chaotic home lives but that makes them more real. It also added to my enjoyment as you are as invested in their lives and how that will pan out as you are in the main plot. And what a plot. There is so much going on in this novel. Three murders is just the start. There is controlling coercive behaviour, spousal abuse, child abuse, smuggling and right the way through, would Lottie succeed in saving little Evan? I could not even guess how this book would end but somehow Gibney manages to pull the whole thing together and still leave the door open for another book in the series. I can’t wait to find out what happens next.

It's always a pleasure to catch up with Detective Inspector Lottie Parker and once again she finds herself in the thick of things as she and the team investigate the death of a young mother.
But then another woman goes missing and her son abducted. Could the two the cases be connected in any way?

Home life is just as hectic and full of problems and pressures too for Lottie so she has the hard job, as ever, juggling her private life and work.

Little Bones is another fabulous addition to one of my favorite series and I certainly look forward to catching up with Lottie. Boyd and the team again in the future.
Loved it and a 5star read for me.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for an ARC for my honest review.

Little Bones from Patricia Gibney is the tenth in the D.I. Lottie Parker series and I have followed it from book one and I just love this series. It feels like coming home when I read this. With Lottie and Boyd with their on/off relationship and the rest of her team.
DI Lottie Parker is investigating the brutal murder of local resident Isabel Gallagher. Her body was found with her child still left in the cot. She is also investigating another woman murdered and her son Evan has gone missing.
She hell bent finding out what happened to both these women and soon finds out that both murders are linked.
The story is also about her own personal life struggling with her job and her relationship with Boyd.
This is another gripping instalment in the series. The author never disappoints. The story is another multi layered story that comes together in the end. Which I was engaged throughout. I like how the author gives you a little tease at the end of what it is to come in the next book. 5 stars from me.

A solid 4 star read. Great premise. Well written. Good characters. Page turner. Plenty of suspense to keep me guessing. I have read all her books and would definitely read her next offering. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to review it

I have no clue what it is that Patricia Gibney does, but the magic wand she must be writing her books with simply works. Her spells work, I guess that must be the explanation. Lottie Parker has had a spot in my heart since I first got to know her. She has her own faults, she's stubborn, and not always easy to get along with, but she's such an adorable character. Strong female detective leads are simply brilliant, and Lottie is no exception.

I don't want to go into the plot at all, because I feel like I would give away something. You just have to read this book to see what Lottie has been up to, and the new case she's working on has her puzzled. Exceptional character, fantastic author, magnificent book!

I enjoyed this as another piece of Lottie’s story. It was very engaging and I couldn’t put it down. I finished it in one sitting. I’m excited to read more books in this series.

The story starts with a dead child and then branches out with quite a lot of characters. At one point it was like as Lottie says ‘a logistic nightmare’. But then the author connects all the dots and converge everything into one focal point. 3.5 stars

I love the mystery and whodunit of this book. I really did not see the end coming. I think it would be a better experience had I read all the books in order but you don't have to to enjoy it. This was a well-written and well-explained plot that didn't have any holes in it.

All I can say is fabulous, this series gets better and better. I read it in one sitting as I couldn't put it down. Wow

Of the 10 books featuring small-town Ireland Detective Inspector Lottie Parker, I've read the five most recent (including this one). By now, Lottie is almost like an old friend - albeit one I can't help feeling sorry for because her personal life - and often her professional one as well - always seem to be so gloomy.

It's no different in this one; she and significant other, co-worker and Detective Sergeant Mark Boyd, are at least thinking about getting married. He shuffles between his own place and the fixer-upper home Lottie occupies with her school-age son Sean, daughter Katie and Katie's young daughter. It's a situation far from ideal - in fact, Lottie hates the place - but she's agreed to stay while her half-brother figures out what to do with it.

While work doesn't always provide the personal-life getaway she'd like - there are issues there as well - Lottie doesn't mind digging in, usually with gusto. This time, a woman walks in her daughter Isabel's house to babysit and gets a gut-wrenching surprise: her daughter's bloody body. The only saving grace is that the murderer spared the infant. Not long after Lottie and Mark are called in, another young mother, Joyce Breslin, goes missing; her four-year-old son follows suit, apparently abducted from his daycare center. Then, Joyce's body turns up as well - If that weren't enough, a female hiker unearths a tiny bone on a remote hillside - a bone, she's certain, is human.

All this leads the investigative team to consider numerous suspects, but mostly to dead ends. The discovery of a bloody razor blade solidifies Lottie's belief that the murders and abduction are related. Somehow, Lottie must connect all the dots before someone else, like Joyce's young son, becomes a victim as well.

All in all, this is another engrossing entry in the series that ends, as most of them do, with a cliffhanger that I expect will be resolved in the next installment. I look forward to that, and thank the publisher, via NetGalley, for allowing me to read and review a pre-release copy of this one. Well done!

There is very little that is new to say about this very enjoyable series. The plot is engrossing, the range of characters is well portrayed if a trifle too numerous, and the outcome is satisfying. The personal side of Lottie Parker's life is less dominant here but we learn plenty about her colleagues. Another very good story with a pleasing outcome.

Always such a joy to read a new Lottie Parker book and book #10 doesn't disappoint. It's twisty and fast paced and had me guessing throughout.

A young mother is found brutally murdered by her mother and she's clutching something in her hand. Detective Lottie Parker and the Team are instantly on the scene. Another woman goes missing and her young son is abducted. Are the cases connected? Do these woman know each other?

Lottie and the team need to delve back into the pasts of these woman who seem to be connected in more ways than one. We also meet up with the Parker family again and find out that Boyd's got a secret..

I found the story absolutely gripping. Highly recommend. Can't wait for book #11.

This is the 10th instalment in a series. However, I read it as a standalone and it really worked well as a decent murder / mystery / police procedural.

It's got well written interesting characters and although the subject matter is a difficult one; involving a dead mother found by her child's cot, it's handled well.

There are various elements to the story, but, they fit together well and I never felt confused or bored with the storyline.

Overall, I enjoyed it and for me it's a good 3* read.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers; Bookoutre for the opportunity to preview.

A young lady is found murdered in her home and another has gone missing. Lottie and the team are under pressure from all sides to solve one and find the other. Are they connected and who owns the bones that are found on a nearby hill?
Yet again Patricia Gibney has given us a great story. It is tension filled and you can feel the pressure that Lottie and the team are under.

I will keep reading the Lottie Parker series as long as it continues. I am engaged with the main characters and enjoy the Irish settings. The plots are good and the details of the main characters' back stories keep evolving. I would like to see Lottie find a bit more joy in life though!

Patricia Gibney has a way of writing that makes you wonder how much of herself she puts into Lottie Parker. The character is written so well, her emotions, her actions. There was one time in this book she curses painting “ another ceiling, and I imagined Gibney had probably done just that.
The stories are always good and this one is no different.
Layers of intrigue that peel back a bit at a time.
A woman is found dead, mutilated, in her own home, holding onto a rusty razor blade.
the same morning another woman receives a note in the post, an address from her past, and a rusty razor blade, it’s a message and she knows her days are numbered.
Parker and her team make connections but are they the right ones.
Something must link these women.
But living so close, and being of a similar age, isn’t it inevitable that some connections must exist. But which ones will count, and will they find them in time.