The Lost Ones

 Welcome to my blog tour tour stop for The Lost Ones which is hosted by Bookouture 

Title: The Lost Ones

Series : Detective Jackie Cooke book 1

Author: Marnie Riches

Rating: 4

Would I recommend it? Yes

Would I read more more of this series ? Maybe

Would I read more by this author? Maybe

like always I  want to say a  huge  thank you to the publisher Bookouture  , the author  ,  and to the wonderful ladies of the Bookouture Anonymous Facebook group without them and their hard work and efforts I wouldn't knew about these books  and to NetGalley for the invite to join this blog tour as well as letting me read and review it. First time I've read anything thing by this author so not only is it a new to me series but also a new to me author which is great since I love to find new authors as well as new series to start reading. I do have to say that even though  it had  the creepiness  and how the killer left his bodies of his victims it was still a bit slow going in to the story, but in some ways it also helped with the build up of the story line  as well as letting you get to know the characters themselves . As for the writing the author did an amazing job of written  strong, clear images   throughout the story  because it brought the carnage left behind by the killer to life so much so that it was like I could actually see the bodies themselves ( what can I say I love when books or movies with blood and gore in them , if their done right and this one was ) , in some ways it reminded me of one of my all time favorite books Eeny Meeny by J. Arlidge 

Book Description:

The girl is sitting upright, her dark brown hair arranged over her shoulders and her blue, blue eyes staring into the distance. She looks almost peaceful. But her gaze is vacant, and her skin is cold…

When Detective Jackie Cooke is called to the murder scene, she is shocked by what she sees. Missing teenager Chloe Smedley has finally been found – her body left in a cold back yard, carefully posed with her bright blue eyes still open. Jackie lays a protective hand on the baby in her belly, and vows to find the brutal monster who stole Chloe’s future.

When Jackie breaks the news to Chloe’s heartbroken mother, she understands the woman’s cries only too well. Her own brother went missing as a child, the case never solved. Determined to get justice for Chloe and her family, Jackie sets to work, finding footage of the girl waving at someone the day she disappeared. Did Chloe know her killer?

But then a second body is found on the side of a busy motorway, lit up by passing cars. The only link with Chloe is the disturbing way the victim has been posed, and Jackie is convinced she is searching for a dangerous predator. Someone has been hunting missing and vulnerable people for decades, and only Jackie seems to see that they were never lost. They were taken.

Jackie’s boss refuses to believe a serial killer is on the loose and threatens to take her off the case. But then Jackie returns home to find a brightly coloured bracelet on her kitchen counter and her blood turns cold. It’s the same one her brother was wearing when he vanished. Could his disappearance be connected to the murders? Jackie will stop at nothing to catch her killer… unless he finds her first…

An absolutely gripping crime thriller that will keep you racing through the pages. Fans of Kendra Elliott, Rachel McLean and Val McDermid will love The Lost Ones.

Author Bio:

Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those of Cambridge University, she gained a Masters in German & Dutch. She has been a punk, a trainee rock star, a pretend artist and professional fundraiser.

Her best-selling, award-winning George McKenzie crime thrillers were inspired by her own time spent in The Netherlands. Dubbed the Martina Cole of the North, she has also authored a series about Manchester’s notorious gangland as well as two books in a mini-series featuring quirky northern PI Bev Saunders.

Detective Jackson Cooke is Marnie’s latest heroine to root for, as she hunts down one of the most brutal killers the north west has ever seen at devastating personal cost.

When she isn’t writing gritty, twisty crime thrillers, Marnie also regularly appears on BBC Radio Manchester, commenting on social media trends and discussing the world of crime fiction. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Salford University’s Doctoral School and a tutor for the Faber Novel Writing Course.

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