Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for an egalley in exchange for an honest review.

My favourite Irish writer is back with the 9th installment in her DI Lottie Parker series. As Lottie and Boyd head into their wedding day, their latest case just might halt their future together.

As always, this was a page-turner and Patricia Gibney never makes us wait too long before diving right into the action. Of course, the first number of chapters introduces a whole cast of characters but don't worry they all overlap eventually. This book can be read as a standalone but it just might make you want to read the whole series.


Goodreads review published 02/03/21
Publication Date 05/02/21

Another fantastic read, I just can't get enough of this series. Boyd and Lottie at their best. Can they get to the bottom of the gruesome murder before anyone else suffers?

Lottie Parker is all set to marry fellow police officer Boyd, thankful that he has beaten cancer. But their nuptials are interrupted by their latest murder case. A number of women have been killed with strychnine leading to an agonised death. Can they catch the killer and make it down the aisle...?
Silent Voices is the 9th book in Patricia Gibney's Lottie Parker series. Each book can be read as a stand alone novel but the life stories of the police team follows on. I'd be surprised if you didn't want to read about their history!
Lottie and her team are inundated with suspicious behaviour and keep coming back to the Fleming family. There are plenty of suspects and a lot of history to sift through. What could connect an entrepreneur with a psychologist and a fifteen year old desperate to be loved? I admit to feeling a little overwhelmed with the number of characters and the length of the book. I had plenty of ideas about who was responsible and why but wasn't right!
The highly anticipated wedding adds an extra dimension to the stress and drama of the case. I enjoyed the personal relationships and professional dynamics of the book which follow on from previous books.
Some of the forensic detail is a bit stomach churning as are the descriptions of the effects of the poison. The descriptions are vivid which is why they create such a horrifying image in the readers' minds. A clever plot, carefully and brutally imagined in words.
Silent Voices is a fab addition to the Lottie Parker series and I can't wait to see what happens next...

This is one of those books where you’re wanting to savour it, but you can’t stop reading because you have to know what happened! I really enjoy this series and have been waiting for no 9. A woman is found poisoned by her sister, her body is twisted with pain. When Lottie finds that the victim has a shard of glass down her throat she worries that it won’t stop here. This looks remarkably like the killer’s ‘signature’ which could mean more than one body, or more killings to come. When a local psychologist and a local businesswoman are both found with the same shard in their throats Lottie is determined to solve the case. Lottie does some investigating around a party the first victim attended, and finds the host and her daughters. The two girls are constantly feuding and their father is totally estranged from the family. Lottie wonders why? Is this a clue or a complete red herring. The other two women don’t have a link to the party at all. Lottie is aggravating the killer though, will he retaliate? 

I enjoy Lottie’s professionalism. I can see why others think she’s abrupt or rude, but I think it’s her work mode - she’s efficient and focused, so pleasantries are not needed. She tries so hard to be the best at work and she wants to be a great mum too. As light relief from the case, Lottie and Boyd are so close to their wedding. However, is her personal life being dragged into the case when Boyd goes missing? I was so worried for her. You might think you’ve worked out who is behind the killings but be aware there’s a massive twist. I really enjoyed this book and heartily look forward to no 10.

I’ve read all of the Lottie Parker books and was very excited to be able to read Silent Voices. 

Patricia Gibney did not disappoint! 

A fantastic read, where we can catch up with Lottie and her team. 

I would recommend reading them in order but they can be read as a stand alone. 

Brilliant, fast paced story.

A nail biting read that will have your heart pumping in anticipation of what comes after the first few lines. There is love, life, death and menace wrapped up in the books pages as the storyline unfolds. With a dynamic cast of characters we are kept entertained throughout by numerous red herrings and dead ends. All this adds up to a culprit reveal that will blindside you yet make total sense of all that has gone before. A read that you will inhale in one sitting as you are dragged into the world of Lottie and Boyd.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review 

This book is number 9 in the series. There are many characters to get to know which was quite difficult when I first started the book. . This book would have been an easier read if one had read the previous  books in the series, however once I did get used the the many characters and the sub plots it was quite a good story of murder and mayhem on a grand scale. The story about dysfunctional family characters and multiple murders all mysteriously linked kept me guessing to the end.  4 stars

I really enjoyed reading this latest book on the Detective Lottie Parker saga. She has her plate full and as always there´s a lot of action, mystery, and inexplicable crimes she has to solve. Her team and her boss may not like the way she addresses her job and/or people during their investigations, but she discovers the culprits. A lot is at stake and even the most likable person to be responsible for the heinous crimes is too easy to be labeled as the one. The story kept me going through the night, I had to understand the reasons and learn who was the killer! Great book, highly recommended!

Book Review: Silent Voices by Patricia Gibney 
I just LOVE this series.  I’m fiercely attached to the characters, to the dramatic plots and the small town setting.

I raced through the book, heart pounding with tension, and loved every startling twist and turn. New and old characters combine together to weave a gripping, thrilling action packed story.  

I loved that I had to suspend reality, and not worry about practicalities.  Instead I immersed myself into Lottie’s chaotic world and found it a perfect escape from lockdown!

Thanks to Bookouture for giving me for giving me a copy of this book for review consideration. As always, no matter what the source of the book, you get my honest, unbiased opinion.

I have not read books 1 through 8, and did not feel lost this can be read as a stand-alone.  This is a great police procedural story, main character Detective Lottie Parker is on the case of Rachel Mullen’s murder.  Rachel’s body was discovered by her twin sister the morning after a party.  There’s plenty of people at the party, Detective Parker is at a cross roads until a second body is discovered with the same pattern.  Could it be the same killer?  This is very twisty and suspenseful.  Thank you to Bookouture, NetGalley, and the author for a gifted copy. This is my honest review.

This is the ninth book in the Lottie Parker series and I have read and loved them all.
Catching up with Lottie Parker is about so much more than the crime solving, its all about the relationships she has with her three children, her Grandson,  her Mother Rose and of course her romantic reationship with Boyd.

We catch up with Lottie again as she and Boyd are due to get married, needless to say things never go to plan,  with a few murders to solve first.

I received this arc through netgalley and bookouture in exchange for an honest review.

Silent Voices is the 9th book featuring Patricia Gibney's detective Lottie Parker.

After Rachel Mullen attends a business meeting followed by a cocktail party, Beth discovers her twin sister dead in her bed, a piece of glass embedded in her throat. When another body is found, a female psychologist, killed in the same way but seemingly unconnected, Lottie realises she has her work cut out if she's to find the killer.

I must confess that I have tended to dip in and out of this cracking series for reasons unknown. To date, I have only read books two, seven, eight and nine. With its pacy narrative, Silent Voices has a terrific plot and I enjoyed being reacquainted with the main characters. Lottie, a Garda Síochána detective inspector, lives and works in the fictional town of Ragmullin in the Irish Midlands. The characters of both Lottie and her fiancé DS Mark Boyd have been fabulously crafted by Patricia Gibney. Lottie has a lot on her plate in her personal life which gives an extra dimension to proceedings as she tries to locate her missing fiancé before their wedding day arrives. The novel has a varying timeline, starting with a death from nine years prior, then moving to the present day before going back to the previous week. Told from various viewpoints, the story includes some chapters from a nameless person. Silent Voices is a terrific read with plenty of suspects and a well-concealed perpetrator and motive.

Tense, exciting and intricately crafted, there are some shocking twists in this dark police procedural and Patricia Gibney managed to keep me guessing right up to the riveting conclusion. This is a remarkably good story I can confidently recommend, that will have you reading late into the night.

I really need to catch up on the instalments I've missed.

I received a complimentary copy of this novel at my request from Bookouture via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

Silent Voices is the 9th book in the modern procedural D.I. Lottie Parker series by Patricia Gibney. Released 5th Feb 2021, it's 436 pages (print edition) and is available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats.

This is a well written, competently plotted, and well paced modern murder procedural with a strong female lead end sympathetic ensemble cast. For me the strongest facet of the book is the complex and very twisty plot. Some of the secondary characters are a bit typey and two dimensional, but the interpersonal connections and the way the author draws out and presents the solution to the mystery more than compensates for the rare bits of dialogue that felt a little like window dressing. There are some heavily foreshadowed plot elements which seemed a little odd to me in context (Lottie winds up having dinner with people of interest in the current investigation which was weird, for example).

The story is told in flashbacks with the counterpoint and development of the plot told alternating between the present time (with Lottie's own wedding ceremony in crisis because of the disappearance/abduction of the groom) and the beginning of the case a week earlier with a series of murders.

Four stars. I would recommend it to fans of modern thriller/procedurals. There is strong language as well as graphic sexual content, so readers should be aware of that if it's problematic. (It's not egregious, and it's pivotal to the plot).  

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

“They didn’t deserve to die”

Wow! What more can I say about the adrenaline rush and angst reading this story has caused! I feel like I have been chewed up and spat out! (in a good way, of course)

Over time, as I have been blog hopping and visiting the various site listings, I have come across several of the earlier books in this series, and I truly only wish that I had knuckled down and read them in their entirety, rather than leaving it until book #9 to make Lottie Parker’s acquaintance, as she is definitely my kind of woman, although I’m definitely not such an untidy and messy worker as she is! Having said that, Silent Voices is a totally self-contained story and from my personal perspective, worked great as a stand-alone, with any relevant backstory information working its way to the surface at the right time and in the right place.

The opening page drew me right into, whilst the intense, highly toxic and horrifying storyline held me in thrall until I almost forgot to breathe, and the ending was both explosive yet rather satisfying, at one and the same time. Oh! and that fourth criteria essential for a storyline like this – you can’t be dead – which Lottie only just about manages by the skin of her teeth!

Patricia Gibney definitely knows how to build a multi-layered, nail-biting, complex plot, which left me with just about everyone on my suspect list, and had me first crossing them off, then adding them back in, throughout the story, as the many twists and turns kept unravelling and changing the dynamics at a great rate of knots! The gripping storyline was well constructed, rich in atmosphere, detail and tension, with enough suspense to cause serious health issues for any reader, along with all those well-place red herrings which tripped me up time and again!

There was some skilfully written, intensely troubling and powerful narrative and dialogue, which was seamlessly woven together with authority and total confidence into a disturbing montage of human behaviour, which when unpicked, uncovered, touched on, and highlighted, so many of the social mores and issues of our times. Sorting out fact from fiction, the innocent from the guilty and the troubled from the aggressor, was a minefield of lies and deceit, which was emotionally draining and physically dangerous, often making it almost impossible for Lottie and her team to see the wood for the trees, through the many individual agendas and the maze of menacing thoughts and actions perpetrated by this cast of disparate characters.

The characters definitely make this story, in equal part with that highly textured plot. Leaving Lottie and her team of detectives aside for a moment, the remainder of this rather sprawling, multi-faceted cast were almost exclusively either physical or emotional wrecks, and often both! They led complex lives, mostly below the radar, lying came as second nature to them, and hidden agendas were accepted as the norm. Even those deserving of some support and help, really did nothing to endear me to them, or sad to say, made me want to invest in them. In fact they were so well defined and drawn in fully immersive and descriptive technicolour, that most of them made me cringe and feel the urge to jump into a cleansing shower as soon as they had left the room!

Lottie herself is a very down to earth, middle-aged widow. She doesn’t suffer fools gladly, is definitely not averse to more than the occasional burst of bad language and is unreservedly outspoken in her thoughts about both her suspects, her team (including the man she is about to marry), and her superiors. She is a fierce defender of her children, although never so much that they don’t get a tongue lashing if she thinks they deserve it. I simply couldn’t make my mind up whether she cared two hoots about her team or not, and it looks as though, with the exception of her fiance Boyd, she is about to discover that she perhaps doesn’t know any of them as well as she thought she did! Between them, they have almost as many hang-ups and emotional complexities, as their counterparts operating on the other side of the thin blue line, however Lottie is usually so busy running around chasing her own tail, rather than working through things methodically, that she really hasn’t noticed their shortcomings and may not until it is too late. But by sheer tenacity, grit, determination and downright bloody-mindedness, she gets things done!

In the town of Ragmullin, “Revenge is definitely a dish best served cold”

This is the 9th installment in the DI Lottie Parker crime thriller series. I've been with Lottie through a lot of tragedy and upheaval in her personal and professional life. It seems that she's finally going to have a chance for happiness with her partner, DS Mark Boyd -- until the bodies start turning up in Rugmullin.

A series of gruesome murders of young women in town lead Lottie and her team into a complicated case and a lengthy, intense investigation that takes precedence over the upcoming nuptials. Although the detectives know the cases must somehow be linked, they are having trouble figuring out the motive or identifying a suspect. Boyd has been a bit distracted by the plight of a 15-year-old who seems to have a connection with one of the murder victims. Unfortunately, the police are having a really tough time getting important interviews and information from all of those they are trying to question. NO SPOILERS.

If you're considering this, be sure to read the previous books in the series as you will appreciate the characters more than if you start with number nine. Although I like Lottie, I have a hard time with her character, her priorities, and her approach to her job and home life. It's a good series and I'm glad I've been along for the journey. I wasn't surprised when the identity of the killer was revealed and definitely there were a lot of potential nasty perpetrators and a plethora of unlikable characters. Fans of the series won't want to miss this latest fast-paced thriller.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.

Silent voices by Patricia Gibney is a crime thriller that will give you pieces of a jigsaw puzzle of a series of poisonings of women.....it will only end with the last piece of puzzle in the last few pages

D I Lottie Parker and her team are on the hunt for a criminal who is poisoning women in a very typical fashion and also the crime scenes are elaborate. 
Many characters in the story related and unrelated to these women seem to be the culprits with very good reasons but who actually is? You will need to read the series to find out. 

An intricate plot, few reveals happening slowly, lots of turns in the plot. The wedding if the detective is being planned amidst the case .....so a lot of angles in the story. This is the 9 th book in the series but the furst one that I am reading....so even though the crime and the story could be understood as a standalone.....I missed the familiarity with the family and the team that happens when I have read the series. 

If you like to read crime thrillers, a police detective who is able, talented and cares less about a few procedure s that could save time....then you will like this story. 

I thank Bookouture and Netgalley for providing me with an eARC of the book. The opinions expressed are entirely mine.

Lottie Parker's life seems to be going well. It's just days before she gets married to Mark Boyd who seems to have come through his leukaemia treatment. The story begins just before the wedding & just before the ceremony Boyd disappears!

Back a few days, a young woman is found dead in her bed, she has been poisoned. The girl is close in age to Lottie's daughter so she immediately vows to find out who did this. Another woman is found dead. Rachel was just starting her cosmetic company, Ellen was a psychiatrist. Who wanted them dead & stuffed a piece of broken mirror in their throats? Rachel had attended a drinks do at a new restaurant. Ellen had befriended a teenage girl who happened to be serving there. Annie, the owner & her family seem involved somehow- & what a dislikeable mess they are!! As usual I didn't guess 'whodunnit' but enjoyed the ride!

I've been a fan of this series since the first instalment & I still eagerly look forward to the next one. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

I was so excited to get my hands on Silent Voices by Patricia Gibney, the latest Lottie Parker novel.

If you haven’t read any of this series yet, here’s a recap: Lottie is a detective in an Irish town. She’s widowed with teenaged children and a fiancé with whom she works. Our Lottie is a complicated character and doesn’t take any crap! 

In this novel, a young woman attends a restaurant opening party and is found murdered in her house the next day. It isn’t long before a second woman suffers the same fate. A teenage girl called Maddie seems to be somehow connected, and so do members of a local wealthy family, the Flemings. 

Every time I pick up a Lottie Parker book I can’t put it down until I’m finished and this one was no exception. Patricia Gibney is the queen of tying loose ends together. I never guess the killer and always enjoy how everything wraps up at the end. I also like the continuity from the previous books. Now if we could just get Lottie and Boyd down the aisle I’d be happy! 

Brilliant small town Irish murder mystery series of books, I’m already impatient for the next one.

Thanks to @bookouture and @netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book, it was a pleasure.

Let me say at the outset that I absolutely fell in love with Lottie Parker from the get go. It's rare to find someone as disinterested in their own wedding as I was in mine! But Lottie had plenty on her mind, not in the least two gruesome murders and the prospect of a serial killer on the loose. Ready to do whatever it takes to solve the crimes, Lottie is fierce yet vulnerable too where her personal life is concerned. 

A marriage gone bad, addiction, young women being taken advantage of sexually, dark family secrets, sibling rivalry, employee resentment - all these were offered as possible causes for someone to start this series of murders. The victims were all connected in one way or another and that added to the fear as to who would be the next victim. The story had such an intricate plot that at one point it seemed that every character except Lottie's family, her fiancé, Boyd and her other police colleagues were the only ones beyond suspicion. I liked how all the loose ends were tied together, the mystery solved and there was a hopeful end for the survivors. 

The story did not suffer for me not having read the previous books in the series, which only goes to show what a great writer Gibney is. Now for me to catch up on the previous 8 books in this series!

Silent voices is the ninth book in the Lottie Parker series.

This 9th entry keeps you turning the pages and is a wonderful series. You can read it as a stand alone but as in all series, you would miss a lot of the nuances. It's a series that's worth the time although it's grim. 

It’s days away from Lottie and Boyd tying the knot. When Lottie is called to investigate the murder of Rachel Mullen who was found murdered by her twin sister Beth. Rachel was just starting her own cosmetics business. She was found murdered with her face in so much pain. She has been poisoned. And then a few days later another body has been found with the same description. Why have these people been murdered and what links them both together?
This is fast paced story which kept me reading, especially the ending, Five stars from me.