Preserve the Dead

DS Lucy Black, Book 3

De: Brian McGilloway

Narrado por: Caroline Lennon

Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below....

The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full-scale investigation is launched - could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of sick joke?

Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help?

In Preserve the Dead, Brian McGilloway weaves a pacy, intricate plot, full of tension to the very last second. DS Lucy Black's third outing since the best-selling Little Girl Lost confirms her as one of the decade's most original female detectives: strong, sensitive and ever determined.

©2015 Brian McGilloway (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

McGilloway does it again

McGilloway has a beautiful way of building a story that makes it as if I'm there. Every book has been as good as the last.

Really enjoyed it

I grew up in Derry. As a Catholic it’s hard to understand that people talk to the police there but I’ll definitely listen to more books in the series.

Well worth the listen

McGilloway is a new author for me, and I want to raise his visibility by writing a review. I found the character of the detective insightful, conflicted, and fully human. Derry is also a new location for me, so I was hoping the book would be good. The story held my interest, with just enough left over at the end to move me to get the next book in the series. McGilloway knows how to build true-to-life characters with complicated lives. I'm glad I read it and I recommend it. Looking forward to Book 4.

Fantastic!!

This is a very visual book. I really felt like I could see the scenes. Great stuff!