Although this was my first venture into this series of books, I had no problem jumping in and enjoying this book. It was well-written, dark, and twisty and had an excellent, satisfying ending. A stolen child is always a tense thing and then add in a "celebrity influencer" and it appeals to those who love the people that they follow online.

I will recommend this book far and wide at our library!

I absolutely LOVE this series. I got the first book and read it when it first came out and i literally wait to see the new one come out. I gobble it up as soon as it arrives at my door. I can't stop telling everyone to go start this series Maggie is one of my favorite characters out there. This new installment was top notch! I was bitting my nails and sitting in the edge of my couch till I made it to the end. Love, love, love this!! Thank you NetGalley and to the publisher for allowing me to read an advanced copy!
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A Stolen Child, the fourth book in the series starring Dublin based guarda Maggie D'arcy proves for me that a series can continue to get better and better. In the first novel Maggie, a Long Island, NY detective goes to Ireland to solve the long ago murder of her cousin. That novel, and the two that follow, established a very credible reason for Maggie and her teen age daughter to move to Ireland. In A Stolen Child we get much less of a relationship establishing book and more of a very well written police procedural. There are still enough moments with Maggie, her boyfriend Conor, daughter Lillie and Conor’s son Adrien to give an idea where this series will go in the next book. I can not wait to see what that is.

My favorite is late spring early summer, and this year I am excited for summer because I have many books, I’m excited to read about coming out. Including this one, out June 20th!

Garda Maggie D’arcy is settling into life in Ireland with her teenage daughter when she gets a call of a dead victim. She’s not quite a detective, yet, but her investigative skills are going to be needed for this case. Soon after discovering the body, Garda D’arcy discovers that the victim had a young daughter – and she’s gone missing. As the investigation continues Garda D’arcy is forced to dig deep into the victim’s life – will they be able to figure out who took the young girl before time runs out?

This is the fourth book in the Maggie D’arcy series by Sarah Stewart Taylor. While I read this as a stand-alone, it would do best if you read this one as part of the series. Now I get that is the point, I just didn’t realize going in that it was a series. Not rating the book any less because of this though. This book was twisty and had many things I didn’t see coming which was fun! I wish we would have had a little more atmosphere with this one – more description of the town she’s working in Ireland or something. I did appreciate the information into how the police force there works and the explanation of to how D’arcy was working her way up despite already have been a detective in Long Island.

Thank you to @netgalley and the publisher, St. Martins Press, @stmartinspress, Minotaur Books, @minotaur_books, as well as the author for this e-arc in exchange for this honest review.

The author's Maggie D'arcy Mystery series is one of my favorites. In the fourth book, I expected memorable characters, a complicated mystery, an immersion into the surrounding culture, and enough suspense to keep me reading--and I wasn't disappointed.

Maggie had 20 years of detective experience in New York, but she has to start over in Ireland, where she and her teenage daughter have now moved to be close to Maggie's beau, Conor. She has completed her Garda training and is on patrol, not yet a detective. But she is called in to assist the detective team when Jade, a 21-year-old former model and reality star, is found murdered and her toddler is missing. The murder isn't solved until the propulsive last few chapters, with plenty of red herrings to keep the reader wondering, and the search for the missing child leads to some unexpected, baffling occurrences.

It is easy to root for Maggie, a mature, grounded protagonist who juggles an almost unbearably difficult job with family responsibilities. There is not much focus in this book on her daughter, but Maggie's relationship with Conor is beautifully and realistically drawn. I also thoroughly enjoyed the details of the investigative process, as expressed in the author's engaging, accessible style. I'm looking forward to number five!

My thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press, Minotaur Books, for the opportunity to read and provide an honest review of this book.

Good book! This book had a bit of everything! It had suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery, A bit of a who done it and so many crazy twists and turns! The storyline was very interesting and had me glued to my Kindle! I will definitely recommend reading this book as it was well worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!