After relocating Donald the duck back to the pond with his wife Maggie and Jason get a call to a flat they were called to a few days before only this time instead of a surprise pretty woman they find a dead one an even worse her daughter Laurel is missing. Maggie has plenty of experience being a cop and a detective in America but has started over in Ireland she is resigned to doing the grunt work until she gets a chance to be a proper detective but her good friend Raleigh Burns is shorthanded and asked her to step in to help with the case and she is more than happy to do so. She’ll have to work with detective Farrar and he isn’t her favorite person nor is she his. After one lie and another she only wants to get to the truth but when the truth is revealed it will shock everyone involved. This book was really really good I have never read any book from the series nor from this author before but I really thoroughly enjoyed this one and will definitely be looking for her books in the future. I love Maggie‘s relationship with Connor her daughter someone else we get to know as the book goes on and how she does her best to deal with her family life and her professional as an American and Ireland. What a brilliant read! I received this book from NetGalley and Saint Martin’s press but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

I enjoyed this police procedural! While it is part of a series, I didn’t find myself too overwhelmed with the background storyline. I find Maggie’s story to be interesting and a different take as she is an American who is now working overseas. The mystery focuses around the search for a missing child, and there are a lot of potential avenues to go down. Found this to be an easy and enjoyable read! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to provide my honest review.

New to this series but was drawn right in.aAn American woman becoming a cop in Ireland enjoyed following Maggie and her new life her role as a police officer..Will be reading more of this series.#netgalley #st.martins

I want to preface my review..I didn’t know this book was part of a series, that is on me. I also haven’t read any of the other books in the series.

Needless to say, this book wasn’t for me. The writing style was repetitive and things were revealed in a scene and then reexplained in the dialogue as a character told another character what they’d found. It led to a lot of skimming. The were also problems with consistency in POV. This was written in First person POV but the main character would often tell the reader things that she could only know if it was written in third person. I also had troubles caring about the character though this could be because I have not read the previous three books. All in all, I don’t think I’ll read the others that came before.

A Stolen Child
Pub Date 6.20.2023

Thank you Netgalley and Minotaur books for my advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is my first novel by Sarah Stewart Taylor and will likely not be my last. This book is a police procedural that is part of a series but you don’t necessarily have to read the other books in the series to read this one. I felt like this novel was really easy to read and get into even though there were numerous characters that were apart of the story. I really enjoyed learning how all the characters we related together in the story and how it was all woven together! This is definitely one that will hold your attention and make you want to keep reading to see how the crime plays out!
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This book did not disappoint. A American detective living in Dublin who has recently become a cop in Ireland is faced with a death and a mystery of a missing child. This one had me guessing to end. I read the first book in this series but missed #2 and 3 so definitely is a stand alone.

Another entry into a pretty solid series. I didn’t feel like I learned any more about the characters, but the story was good on its own.

A good mystery set in Ireland. Part of a series, this is book 4. Former Long Island homicide detective, Maggie D'arcy made the move to Ireland with her daughter Lilly. She is brought into the investigative team by her friend, Detective Inspector, Roly Byrne, after some months of training. They are looking for the missing toddler daughter of a murder victim TV star and model Jade Elliot. Quite the manhunt ensues keeping the pages turning. Highly recommend it for those who love a good murder mystery.

This is the second book I have read with Maggie D"arcy in Ireland. Maggie is an experience deceptive from New York who has come to live in Ireland with a writer with whom she in involved. She has completed all the training she needs to become an Irish policeman and because of friends in high places she is given a temporary position in the investigation into a murder she and her partner discover as she is working as a local cop on the street. It is a well done story with several unexpected twists at the end and at the same time a development in Maggie's character. Unfortunately, if you have't read the previous book, in which she has just moved to Ireland, there may be some references that you will not understand. Find The Drowning Sea and read it first. I received this as an arc from NetGalley and am under no pressure for a positive review.

A Stolen Child is the 4th book in the Maggie D'arcy series, this was a new author for me which meant it was also I hadn't read any of the previous books in the series. Maggie an American police officer moves to Ireland to be with her daughter and the man in her life. Starting over is never easy, espescally in the field she works in. When a young mother is found dead, and her young daughter is missing the police begin the search for both the killer and the young child. The storyline is filled with lots of twists and turns. I would suggest it to others.

I received an ARC from NetGalley and St, Martin's Press, and I am leaving my review voluntarily.

Maggie has finally finished her training and become a Guard with the Irish police. First case up is a former model found murdered. It is then discovered the model's toddler is missing. Will Maggie be able to find the toddler in time and find the murderer while getting used to the way things are done by the Irish police?

In A STOLEN CHILD, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns with her ace protagonist Maggie D’arcy, a detective who’s at the top of her game. Women readers will love her head smarts and compassionate heart. I loved the inside look at details of police procedure. The plot is sharp and quick and keeps the story moving. It’s a great read, a unique and thrilling literary crime novel. Make no assumptions and be ready for plenty of twists and turns.

*4-4.5 stars. In the 4th book in this mystery series about a former Long Island police detective who has transplanted herself and her daughter to Ireland, Maggie D'arcy has finished at the Garda Training College and is on community patrol in Dublin with her partner, Garda James Savage. They get a call about a possible homicide at an apartment complex and are first on the scene where they find the body of a beautiful young woman. Unfortunately they had answered a call for possible domestic violence at the same address a few days earlier but had been assured that it was only a too-loud movie on TV. Did they miss the signs of trouble ahead?

Now they realize the victim, a former model named Jade Elliott, has a two-year-old daughter Laurel who is missing, so a possible homicide intensifies into a frantic search for a stolen child.

This is a brilliant police procedural! Because Maggie worked with the Garda previously in her role as a Long Island detective, and because they are short-handed, she is allowed to step up and work closely with this investigation and the search for the child. Unfortunately they are very short of suspects and a motive. Everyone they question seems to be holding something back--so frustrating!

Meanwhile at home with her lover Colin and their two kids, the house they are sharing is being renovated and Colin is waiting to see reviews of his newly-published book on Irish political history. And where is their relationship heading anyway? Could things get any more tense for Maggie?

I've enjoyed this series from the start and would recommend that anyone new to it should do the same as the relationships, both personal and professional, build.

I received an arc of this new mystery from the author and publisher via NetGalley. Many thanks! My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.

This is my first read in this series and I was a tad bit lost as I began reading.
The mystery part was good reading although the clues got the best of me since I failed to figure out the culprit.
I appreciated the Irish settings and different protocol and procedures.

Sarah Stewart Taylor had me in her grips with A Stolen Child on page 1, and she never let go, until I put the book down a few hours later. I can tear through a thriller/mystery, but a lot of times I guess the ending too quickly, or it becomes boiler plate and the cadence is too obvious.

With A Stolen Child, we get to go in depth with many of the characters, and things are not one-dimensional. I loved all the various plotlines that led to a super satisfying ending.

There are hard subjects addressed in this book, and done in a superb way that really brought it home for me. The people that you pass on the streets every day are holding secrets and when you get an unexpected glimpse into a few, it can shock you. That is real life.

The book begins with the murder of a previous young model/reality tv star. In addition to her death, her baby is also missing. And so begins the unraveling of so many different lives.

I loved the setting in Ireland. I loved how the author has gone deep into the storylines of the guards, particularly Maggie. While there were books before this one that I hadn't read, i didn't need to in order to understand the sub-plots. I enjoyed it so much though, that I am planning on going back and reading them, plus future volumes.

Thank you to Sarah Stewart Taylor for an enjoyable ride and brief escape from my reality, i needed it and I appreciate it. I also appreciate NetGalley and Minotaur Books for an advanced readers copy for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

Thank you Minotaur Books for the gifted book.

I continue to love this series, but I did struggle a bit more with this book just based on the content. It's not a spoiler to say that the book centers around a missing child and because of this there is a lot presumption/worry about what sort of crimes may be happening to the child and references to other such crimes. There are generally not descriptive scenes, but any sort of crime against children is harder to read about.

I very much look forward to the next book in this series and I loved being back in Dublin for this book.

The plot was everything, I liked the whole investigation, Maggie is literally the best I love a great leading lady in mystery books. She just recently got her job as a police officer in Dublin, and she’s on patrol, and she ends up right smack in the middle of a murder mystery that detectives higher up needed her for.

I loved how this book had so many twists in and turns and of course the ending we never expected. Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for giving me an opportunity to read this book.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Mystery
Setting: Dublin, Ireland
POV: 1

It has been a couple of months since a book made me stay up in order to finish it. From the moment I started reading to the very end I was entertained. I liked the flow and the writing style of this book so much. I also enjoyed the nitty-gritty of the police procedures for solving the murder and finding the stolen child.
I will absolutely read the other books in this series.

Thank you to the publisher at St. Martins Press, Sarah Stewart Taylor, and Netgalley for a copy of A Stolen Child in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this introduction into this world and I just couldn’t get enough of it. I just so thoroughly enjoyed meeting these new characters and getting to go on their journey. I will most definitely be reading more wonderful books from this author.

A Stolen Child is book four in the Maggie D'arcy series set in Ireland. I've read and enjoyed all 4 books in the series. You know I'm always ready for a book set in Ireland!

Maggie has finished her training and is now officially a Garda in Dublin. She's starting out on patrol which is challenging she was a detective back in Long Island but she knows she needs to pay her dues. When on patrol they find a woman murdered and her toddler daughter missing, she gets the chance to step up to find the little girl but also the murderer.

I love Maggie and in this book is fun to see her as an active Garda and the adjustment to live in Ireland with Conor. These are well written police procedural mysteries that I've look forward to reading!

Thanks to minotaur books for my advanced copy!