The Night Caller

Well, it’s the new year, and we have a new crime writer who debuts on the Constable crime list. Martina Murphy’s excellent police procedural featuring Detective Sergeant Lucy Golden has already been published in Ireland and has done brilliantly there, and now it’s our turn to showcase the paperback.

Set in a small tight-knit Irish community on Achill Island, the murder of a popular young schoolteacher stuns the locals . . . and then another body turns up with links to a murder twenty years earlier.

And so DS Lucy Golden is called in to investigate as a disturbing pattern is emerging and it’s down to Lucy and her team to discover what it is before the killer claims their next victim. Patricia Gibney has already called it ‘tight plotted and page turning’ so pick up a copy and see what the fuss is about – and I guarantee you will be sucked into the story, and will have to keep going until the end.

Krystyna Green