Girl In Danger
‘Girl In Danger’ is the
second outing for Lucy Hall, and this time finds her based in Paris and trying
to make her way as a journalist.
This is what the book blurb
has to say …
Lucy Hall’s first summer in Paris promises to be idyllic. She’s fallen
in love with the city and enjoys her new job as an investigative reporter. When
her friend Nina comes to stay, the girls look forward to a wonderful summer.
But Paris is a city of contrasts and Lucy is about to experience its dangerous
side.
When an anonymous source promises her a scoop, Lucy can’t resist the
chance to make her name. The deeply unsettling meeting with her informant
indicates that there may be more at stake than she’d suspected. Returning home
with questions instead of answers, Lucy finds her apartment ransacked and Nina
gone.
Lucy knows her friend is in danger, but the police are unwilling to
help. When her informant is found dead, she realises she may be next. Lucy has
something the killer wants and he’ll do anything to get it back…
One of the things I’m
really enjoying about the Lucy Hall series is the way that each one is set in a
very different location. In the first book, ‘Journey To Death’ we found
ourselves in the exotic surroundings of the Seychelles. This time we are much
closer to home in Paris, and I found the setting was very deftly recreated. I
haven’t been to Paris for many years, but I really felt as I read that I could
picture where Lucy was and see it all very clearly in my mind’s eye.
In this adventure Lucy
finds herself trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of what has happened
to Nina alongside a local Private Detective. The mysterious Alain turns out to be
the perfect partner for Lucy. His hardbitten attitude, born of long experience
of crime and corruption, acts as a perfect foil to the sometimes slightly naïve and
impulsive Lucy.
As they work together, both
Lucy and the reader wonder if Alain can be trusted. As events unfold it turns out
that certainly no one else can be!
All in all, a very gripping
crime story that takes both the reader and Lucy to some very dark places. Some
of the descriptions of the crimes committed are not for the fainthearted, but are necessary to indicate the level of jeopardy Lucy and Nina find themselves in and the urgency of their dilemma.
I’m looking forward to
seeing where Lucy ends up next, and I hope this series will run and run.
Thanks very much to the author
for a review copy of this book via Netgalley.
'Girl In Danger' is out on Kindle on 27th September and available for pre-order now. You can find out more here.
1 comment:
I very much enjoyed reading this review, which made the reader wish that Sept 27 would hurry along even quicker. Leigh Russell always provides good entertainment with her wonderful books and this review certainly backs that up. A very positive review indeed.
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