Smart murder mystery set in Ireland: something reeks in Ragmullin🚔

4.5🌟stars
A good story that appealed to me thanks to:
- Interesting personal storyline for Detective Lottie and boyfriend Boyd and their families;
- Shifting POV between police, victims and criminals;
- Complex investigation with villain reveal only at climax;
- Suspense of whether any of the victims can be rescued in time;
- Good writing that's fast-paced, stays on track and is low on introspection, high on action.

On the down side, it was a bit long and I guessed the mastermind behind the kidnapping and murders fairly early in the story (though the author did a good job distracting attention and keeping their identity hidden).

Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for sharing a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest opinion.

Her last walk home is book 14 of the fabulous D.I. Lottie Parker series.
When a young woman is found dead on a grassy verge first thing in the morning. D.I. Lottie Parker and her team are on the case. The woman is identified as Laura Nolan, a young mother with a little boy. When Lottie speaks to her mother Diana, She, is told that Laura was on a night out with someone she met. But she doesn’t know who the person is.
When another woman on a night out Shannon Kenny disappears, they find out that there is a connection to the dead woman. They both members of the same dating agency. Is the same person responsible. They speed up the investigation to find her before she too ends up dead.
This is another complex case for Lottie and her team that keeps you guessing throughout. I also like that the author has included her personal life with Boyd and her family and her mother’s dementia it makes the story feel more real.
This is another unputdownable read that I could get enough of. And I can’t wait to read more of Lottie’s and her team antics in the next book.

I can't believe we're on book 14. I love Lottie so much. Another fast paced and edge of the seat read, it was always one more chapter!

Lottie and the Team are investigating the death of a young woman who seems to not have made it home after a night out. When trawling the CCTV in the area they discover someone unexpected near to the body and the team are on the lookout for him. When another young woman goes missing the team fear there's a connection there somewhere. It's a twisty read & I honestly didn't know who the killer was!

As ever love hearing about Lottie's personal life and Boyd, after all this time you really feel like you are part of the family. A brilliant read which I highly recommend. 5*

Fourteenth in the Detective Lottie Parker series
A great read
A great storyline as always
Didn’t want to put this book down had me hooked from the first page to the last
Thanks NetGalley

Lottie Parker and her team in Ragmullin are back to investigate when the body of a young woman is discovered. The body is identified as Laura Nolan, who never made it home after being out on a date the night before.
Not long after Laura Nolans body is discovered, Shannon Kenny, another young woman, is reported missing after not returning home from a night out. Lottie and her team soon find out that these two women weren't randomly selected, they share a connection and were stalked and taken as someone is out for revenge. With one young woman dead and another missing the team race to find Shannon before it's too late.

I'm a massive fan of the Lottie Parker book series, I've read all the books in the series so I was delighted to be approved this ARC for the next book in the series and it was just as brilliant as the last 13 books. As usual, Patricia Gibney does an excellent job storytelling with multiple Pov's from the characters to tell this chilling story. An action packed, page turner that I highly recommend. I would definitely recommend reading a few books from series before reading book 14, just to get familiar with all the characters and their stories.
Thanks to netgalley, bookouture and Patricia Gibney for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Puzzle master!

The latest addition to the Detective Lottie Parker series will have you gripped trying to fit all the puzzle pieces together. With no clear motive for three deaths and a missing person, and potential connection between each of them, the team search for any detail about the victims' lives. As the links are made and the puzzle pieces start to fall into place, leading them to further clues, this story will have captive to the end to find out the killer's motive.

Lottie continues to be cantankerous, and while she is rather snappy with Boyd, he also has the ability to even out her moods. Once again, it is like a dance of one two steps forward, one step back for them and their relationship, blending their families and dealing with the pressures of that come with family.

Great read. Love the way a series of seemingly random crimes, situations are all interconnected, like points on a spiders web . Lottie and her team are in the middle pulling at the threads to connect everything. So well written with a carefully constructed storyline. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I usually know within the first couple of chapters how much I’m going to enjoy a book but I knew within the first 2 pages that this was one I was going to struggle to put down. There are not enough words for how much I enjoyed this book. It was entertaining, clever and the narrative was stunningly intelligent. I couldn’t put it down I was captivated.

I was delighted to see that Patricia Gibney is releasing a further novel in the Lottie Parker series, and Her Last Walk Home is just as good as, if not better than, the rest of the series! Her Last Walk Home is the fourteenth book in the series, so now more than ever, Lottie and her family, and her team, feel like family to me. It felt so comfortable slipping back into their lives and spending time with them. In particular, I enjoyed catching up with Kirby in this novel. In the past, he's perhaps been one of the more difficult characters to warm to and get to know, but I really felt him come into his own in this story and I hope that continues.

There are so many different strands to this novel, and in the beginning, it did take me some time to get to grips with the different aspects of the story. However, Patricia Gibney is an amazing plotter and I was really intrigued by how so many different characters would be connected to each other. She's also brilliant at creating such a wide range of characters from young children who tug on my heartstrings to perpetrators that make me skin crawl, and this makes it really easy to become engaged in the novel. I found it really exciting to try and work out how everyone was involved.
I did think I had the twists worked out, but I was completely wrong all the way through!

Patricia Gibney is also extremely talented at writing the tense scenes in Her Last Walk Home that keep the reader on the edge of their seat. As I was reading, I often felt shivers up my spine or had to look over my shoulder! The chapters are short and usually end on a cliffhanger so it was really hard to put the book down at times!

Detective Lottie Parker has another case to investigate when the body of a young woman is found, seemingly having not returned from a night out. When another woman is reported missing, last seen climbing into a taxi, Lottie is shocked to discover a connection – these are not random events; the victims have been chosen for a reason. Can Lottie and her team find the killer before more young women find themselves in danger?

Fourteen books in and this is a series still going from strength to strength. In Her Last Walk Home, Patricia Gibney has written another page turner, this time with a subject matter that is always topical – the safety fears of women when out in public. This is particularly troubling for Lottie as she has two daughters of her own – could they be on the killer’s watch list?

Lottie’s personal life plays a pivotal role in the book and, as always, there is a good balance between this and the case. Her relationship with Boyd is as turbulent as ever with the two characters still unable to come to an agreement about their future despite their obvious love for each other. It was great to see the return of Boyd’s sister who comes with news of her own, her matter-of-fact ways giving the detective even more to worry about!

The plot progresses well with the author giving a few hints along the way to help you try to figure out the perpetrator. The ending was still a surprise, however – something I always like about Patricia Gibney’s books. Bring on book 15!

I love everything about this series; the cast of characters, the story arcs and the brilliant plots. This one was no exception and it felt good to catch up with Lottie et al. As a mother of three grown up daughters, this gave me chills. I had no idea who the culprit was, or why the abductions had taken place. A great, tense and exciting read.

Firstly I would like to thank netgalley and Bookoutune and the brilliant author Patricia Gibney for an early copy of her book to read...

This is a fantastic series book 14...A womans body found on wet grass a young boy discovered her body he wasnt supposed to be there, he ran away from the scene..Detective Lottie Parker her partner Boyd and the team are investigating this case,her name is Lorna Nolan she has a young child,her mother looked after so she could go on a night out...Then another woman disappeared Shannon Kenny was it the same killer?..there was one connection a dating agency....love reading Lottie and Boyd family and relationship..a fantastic read.keeps me guessing to the end..looking forward to reading the next instalment..highly recommend...

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Lots going on and with characters I’ve really grown to know and love over the series. The premise is quite sinister, a young girl has been killed and dumped but this extends into lots of other avenues. The subjects covered are quite brave but sensitively handled, kidnap and incarceration, murder, child neglect and historic teenage pregnancy and the legacies of past secrets. The action is packed and gently drawn out to give a really suspenseful buzz that keeps you turning the pages. I enjoyed the unravelling of the involved characters and the links to past and present and all importantly I didn’t guess whodunnit. One I’d definitely recommend.

Another great read in the Lottie Parker series. Although it can be read as a standalone, it would be beneficial to read the earlier books to become familiar with the backstory of the characters. In this book Lottie and her team are racing against time to track down a murderer. As in previous books, Lottie's personal life adds another dimension to the story. I loved the interplay between the characters and found this to be an engrossing read.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

This is another gripping read from Irish author Patricia Gibney. The Lottie Parker series is one of the best police procedurals in recent years. This story had me rapt from the very first page. There are half a dozen characters who could be the predator who is abducting young women and I kept changing my mind as to who I suspected. I just couldn't put the book down until the thrilling climax. This is one of my favourite series, it has so many great characters. I don't know if it's deliberate on the part of the author but I have noticed Lottie becoming more and more like Rose. If she isn't careful she will lose that lovely man.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book

A fast paced, gripping and complicated story in the Lottie Parker series which kept me guessing right to the end. I really like the characterisation and the insight into the personal lives of the team, it adds to the mystery and I keep waiting to find out what is in store for Lottie and Boyd! The story is told from multiple points of view, which works very well and there is plenty of tension which kept me engrossed. Although we are at book 14 in the series, one I would recommend, it is still as fresh as book 1. Thanks to Net Galley for my ARC.

Thank you for my copy of this book to read and review.

I have read all of the Lottie Parker books, in order, since book one and I love them. I always recommend them to anyone who likes good, original, interesting detective stories.

Her Last Walk Home, as with all of the previous 13, was easy to get into, kept my attention all the way through and kept me guessing. Patricia Gibney has a great way of making you want to keep reading just one more chapter.

You can definitely read these as standalone but I love the continuation of characters so I would definitely recommend reading them from the start in order.

5 stars! Can't wait for book 15.

I love this series by Patricia Gibney, every book gets better and better. These books can of course be read as stand alone novels but I would recommend starting at book one so that you learn the dynamics between the characters. A real page turner, I was invested in this book from page one, it immediately grabbed my attention. I read this book in one sitting, it was that good. Love the characters and the story line. Highly recommended! A big fat five stars from me.

I love Patricia Gibneys style of writing and this Lottie Parker series is so good. This may be book 14 but I have read and enjoyed every single one and this was no exception. The usual fast paced story with twists and turns and a few red herrings had me gripped from the start. I can’t wait for the next instalment. Although it can be read as a stand alone I recommend reading the series from the beginning to get the back stories. The only thing that is getting a bit wearing now is Lottie sort your life out!!! All in all an excellent series and author.

Having read the rest of the series I might be biased, but I greatly enjoyed this book. I don't think you necessarily need to read them all to enjoy them as separate cases each time. I like how Lottie and the team are like normal people with normal problems (leaking roof, family problems etc) rather than it just being about the case. I did actually guess correctly this time, but maybe that was because I didn't like the character. There were plenty of twists though.