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summerofsoaps's review
4.0
This is the first book in Mina's series starring Paddy Meehan. Paddy is a great, if not always likable character, and her struggles to balance her ambitions as a reporter with her family's demands and Catholic morals are fascinating. The prose is dark and lush. The mystery itself is okay, although I guessed the murderer long before Paddy did. The scene that opens the novel is stomach-churning, and I would warn readers that it features not only a crime against a very small child, but a graphic description of the crime from the child's point of view. Overall, I liked it a lot and I will definitely be reading more in the series, because Paddy's such an interesting character and Mina's such a skillful author.
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