Lasting Influence

A kidnap, a murder, and a very tricky situation for a tough female detective… Good book! I enjoyed reading this one! This book had suspense, intriguing, murder, mystery, a great who done it and a few crazy twists and turns! The story was very interesting and kept me glued to my kindle! I definitely recommend reading this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

Lasting Influence is a good police procedural set in and around Belfast. It's the eighth in a series featuring DCI Gawn Girvin, bit works well as a standalone.

Gawn has been on leave and is asked to return early to take on a high profile abduction case. The involvement of a senior civil servant she is sure has a hidden role makes her suspicious that there is more to the case than first appears. But what are the links to the past? And why was she chosen to lead the investigation?

This is a well paced novel, with clues and revelations building the tension towards the eventual conclusion. Even without having read the previous novels, this was attention grabbing throughout.

This is the first book written by Linda Hagan that I have read, but let me tell you, it won't be the last.

This book is for sure a page turner, and it will get you sucked in and invested right from the very first chapter. It has all the mystery, investigation and suspense that one could ask for in a book.

If you enjoy reading books that has a strong focus on the police aspect of crimes, then you will enjoy this book!


Gawn went on leave but was asked to come back early to help with a high profile case. When he returns and starts working on the case, he realizes that there is more to this case than what it appears to be at first. There are links to the past that she can't seem to figure out right away, and needs to be able to piece together what happened? What will come of social media these days.

This is a great book, I really enjoyed it!

Lasting Influence is a fun murder mystery, if you can imagine fun in a murder book;) There were lots of jaw dropping twists and turns that kept me guessing throughout the book. I’ve never read any works by Linda Hagen before, but I’m definitely going to read more.

This is another great addition to an excellent series written by Linda Hagan. The central character Detective Chief Inspector Gawn Girvin has just returned from a year’s leave in America and is thrown in at the deep end immediately dealing with a challenging kidnapping case, murder and a link to the past which quickly becomes personal. This is another gripping instalment with suspense and drama in equal measure.
A very small criticism is that we never picked up on Nina’s story at the end which felt like an unfinished element to the book. However, the author continues to provide a fast paced plot and well drawn characters. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to the next one.

This crime thriller tingles with intrigue from beginning to end and is compulsive reading. The Belfast setting helped add a sense of realism to a plot that was both clever and complex.
Linda Hagan is a writer new to me; Inspector Gawn Girvin a character new to me; and social media influencers on par with aliens in my world, but what a thrill to realise there's a whole lot of catching up I can do with this series.
All the police procedural stuff is very authentic and there's plenty of strong characterisation which helped make this novel as much character driven as plot driven and the quality of the writing was absolutely pitch perfect throughout.