This is a very intriguing book. I felt like this book is different then other books. If you are looking for a good mystery/thriller book this is the book for you!!! Your main characters are Detective Lottie, her daughter Chloe and detective Boyd. This book is a murder mystery. AT the beginning it told the sad story of a young boy. Without giving spoilers I do want to say that it had me in my feelings. They keep finding dead bodies but can not figure out who did it. One man Andri Petrovci was the one who found each body. Was he the killer? Or was is some other bad person? There are also a young girl and women who are missing. How does everything connect? These detectives are tying to solve these mysteries while dealing with their own life situations. Detective Boyd has a wife who left him but suddenly turns up. Detective Lottie is a single mom of 3 children who are dealing with issues. I felt deeply when reading this book when I normally do not. It kept me guessing through out the book on who the killer was, why they did it, and what is going to happen next among other questions. A lot of time I can see where a book is headed but I had no idea in this book. I loved detective Lottie but there were times in the book I would get mad at her but then there were times I felt so bad for her knowing it is a struggle to be a detective and take care of her family after tragedy had struck them previously to this book. I have not read the first book in the series. But after reading this book I will definitely will. Detective Boyd was a good character too but I felt like he was a pushover somewhat. I would like to see him stick up for his self more. This was a very hard book for me to put down. I can not wait to read the other books in the series. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a mystery/thriller.

This is the second book in the DI Lottie Parker series, and even better than the first book. In this book we meet Lottie a couple of months after the trauma and events of book two, and sees how she deals with that in her personal life, as well as trying to investigate the murder of a young girl. I can't wait for book number three!

Thank you NetGalley for a copy of this book.

3 stars. I finished the book so that was a plus. The story just felt kind of bland. The protagonist was not my favorite. The ending was redeeming.

I got so excited at seeing another Patricia Gibney on Netgalley I had it requested before I even read the blurb.... Of course I had read it, this was the second book in the Detective Lottie Parker series and I just love this series. It has gone from strength to strength and is now on book 7, if you loved this, I highly recommend you keep going and read the whole series, you certainly won't be disappointed.

Absolutely fantastic! This is such a great series, it’s well written, the characters are very likeable and the storyline was just riveting. Couldn’t put this book down, it held my interest from page one and didn’t let me go until the end. Stayed up late into the night reading this, Patricia Gibney has done an awesome job on this book. Totally deserves the 5 stars I am giving it.

Detective Lottie Parker struggling with her 3 children opens the door to a stranger stood on her step with a young boy..... so begins the second in the lottie parker series and with this involving sex trafficking and organ harvesting its not to he missed

This is the second book featuring DI Lottie Parker and I liked this even more than the first the plot was much darker but very well written and the flashbacks were placed perfectly which helped the story flow nicely and the descriptions the author gives of Ragmullen are so well detailed that it gives me a vivid picture in my mind and a chill my bones.. would definitely recommend.
Looking forward to the books in the series

Another great read by Patricia, I wad gripped so i had to read it in one sitting it was worth missing a few hours sleep. I will continue to read this series

This second installment in the DI Lottie Parker series was thrilling from start to finish -- I read it in a single sitting this evening! An excellent, action-packed police procedural that features such horrific topics as sex trafficking, self-mutilation, illegal organ harvesting, horrors of war, and murder.

I have read all of the other books in this enthralling series but somehow missed this one and I am so glad I was able to revisit earlier parts of a long-running story with the characters I've grown attached to and have connected with. Lottie and her team become involved in a very complicated case when a young foreign-born woman and her small son appear on the Parker doorstep on the day that Lottie is to return to work after recovering from events in book #1. On the same day, the body of another girl is found buried in road construction. Unable to make identification, the autopsy gives details that indicate something truly evil is going on in Ragmullin in the Irish Midlands. Then another body is found in similar fashion. Both are suspected asylum seekers but they've not been reported missing and they don't appear on any list at the local privately-run direct provision center.
Then, a friend of Chloe's (Lottie's daughter) goes missing. As the clues mount and leads are chased down, interviews done, and all avenues explored, Lottie can't help but wonder how this case ties together. NO SPOILERS.

Great characters, good writing, and lots of nerve-wracking suspense kept me thoroughly engaged. I'm definitely a fan of this series and I am hopeful that I'll be getting to the eighth book soon!

Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for this e-book ARC to read, review and recommend.

I would like to thank Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Stolen Girls’, the second in the Detective Inspector Lottie Parker books by Patricia Gibney, in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Lottie, together with her colleague DS Boyd, searches for answers after finding the bodies of three women buried in trenches whilst road works are in progress in the centre of Ragmullin. The bodies are thought to be those of asylum seekers and Lottie needs to discover their identities together with who killed them. But Lottie is haunted by the memories of her late husband Adam and is struggling to keep her family together, whilst Boyd comes face to face with his ex-wife during investigations.

I thought the book was well-written and at times chilling to read, but I found it difficult to understand Lottie’s behaviour towards Boyd which I thought discourteous and disrespectful at times. Nevertheless, it was exciting and kept me enthralled from page one to the end.

Detective Lottie Parker is looking for a very active serial killer in this novel. When a man finds the body of a pregnant woman, police are concerned, but when the same man finds another victim, their alarm grows. The murders bear all the hallmarks of a serial killer. And what about the man who found them? It seems a very odd coincidence. Now with two more girls missing, Lottie has to pull out all the stops to find the killer before it’s too late. Grim and frightening, read this with the lights on