It was a interesting novel that had moments of humor and suspense..the only downside is that you must pay close attention to the story to figure out the ending.

Having read the first book in the series a couple of years ago I was keen to carry on with the story of PC Donal Lynch. However I did not find this one nearly as compelling. Maybe it needed some more editing to enable the story to move at a quicker pace.
The premise is interesting- a policeman who has visions of murder victims which supposedly help him to solve cases. It is set in the 1990s so not as much technology is available to the police- more detecting is required. There is little use of computers and more looking through old case notes. Micro cassettes are used as bugging devices!
However although it is a thriller it is very slow moving. Not a lot happens in other words. There is a lot of information about Donal’s personal life and his failing relationship with his girlfriend and stepson which carries over to the cases he is looking into- the disappearance of a female estate agent and the murder of a debt collector which his visions tell him are connected.
There are several references to real cases of the time although names are changed. An example is the disappearance of Suzy Lampugh where her name is slightly altered. I’m not sure if this is to make the book more realistic in its early 1990s setting.
I quite liked the character of Policeman Donal and his relationship with his wilder brother journalist Fintan but even this did not compel me to finish the book and I gave up about half way through.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my arc in exchange for an honest review.

First off, I rather feel I’ve been sold a pig in a poke …. the PR blurb for this novel seems to set out a straight forward police procedural – but oh no, what we really have is some bizarre paranormal slant to the book, with the protagonist enduring graphic ‘visions’ featuring the recently dead person his current investigation is centred upon.

Okay, I could probably cope all right with this, but there’s just far too much emotional wailing and gnashing of teeth, about his female partner rekindling her sexual relationship with the father of her child.

Add in the fact that his bosses don’t seem to be at all aware that he doesn’t turn up for work very often, along with a dizzying amount of characters who never quite do anything very interesting, and I just couldn’t face ploughing on till the end.

Sadly, really just a waste of time getting invested in this book at all