He is met at the airport by DC Owen holding a board with his name on which is spelled incorrectly so he isn't feeling very optimistic about his future. He arrives at the airport to find his luggage has gone missing, this doesn't bode well for his 'new start'. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.ĭetective Liam O'Reilly has escaped Dublin to begin a new life on Guernsey. Many thanks to the author / Books 'n All Book Promotions for the digital copy of this new crime fiction series. There's lot of action, plenty of bad guys abound, and O'Reilly finds himself facing one of the most depraved killers he's ever come across. I enjoyed watching him intermingle with a new team in his own sort-of arrogant way. O'Reilly is a hard character to like in the beginning, but he did tend to grow on me. After reading many of Stewart Giles' books, I have come to expect a well-written, intricately woven plot with deftly drawn characters. and I'm really looking forward to see what this author comes up with next. Soon he's faced with a choice - he can either do what these people tell him and risk everything he has, or he can defy them and spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. He persuades his daughter to join him on the island so he can keep an eye on her. now! The man pulls out a picture of O'Reilly's daughter and threatens to hurt her if the money isn't forthcoming. While the cases are being taken away from him by the Border Agency, O'Reilly's past catches up with him. this time a woman who has had her hands removed. Shortly after, another body is found ashore. There is no identification and no one seems to know him. his eyes have been gouged out, hands and teeth removed. O'Reilly had barely set foot in his new office, when he's called to investigate the body of a man who has been found in a dinghy washed up on shore. He has recently transferred to the island of Guernsey leaving behind a wife who had passed and a crime lord to which he owes a lot of money. Trotterdown a box set of DC Harriet Taylor books 1-3Ĥ.5 STARS Meet DI Liam O'Reilly. Meanwhile, as DCI Urban and the Border Agency believe they're getting closer to the truth, O'Reilly has his own theories and as these suspicions are proved correct he comes face to face with one of the most depraved killers he's ever come across. When O'Reilly's daughter is threatened by these people he persuades her to join him on the island so he can keep an eye on her. O'Reilly left Dublin behind but his past soon catches up with him in the form of a Belfast thug employed by a man O'Reilly owes money to. The Guernsey Border Agency, headed up by the arrogant DCI Franklin Urban has their own ideas as to who is behind these brutal murders and argue that the jurisdiction is now theirs. O'Reilly is getting closer to the truth when the case is suddenly taken away from him. When another similarly mutilated body is found, O'Reilly and his new team realise they're on the hunt for a deranged killer. There is no indication of where the man came from - his hands and teeth have been removed and he has a crude tattoo of a dragon on his back. He has barely set foot on the island when the body of a man is washed up on the shore. What deadly secrets does the peaceful island of Guernsey hold?ĭetective Inspector Liam O'Reilly has recently transferred to the island of Guernsey from the Special Detective Unit in Dublin and in this first installment we see him hitting the ground running. What deadly secrets does the peaceful island of Guernsey hold? Detective Inspector Liam O'Reilly has recently transferred to the island of Guernsey from the Special Detective Unit in Dublin and in this first installment we see him hitting the gr Blood on the Island.įrom # 1 bestselling author: Stewart Giles, comes a new detective series set on the idyllic island of Guernsey. From # 1 bestselling author: Stewart Giles, comes a new detective series set on the idyllic island of Guernsey.
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