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skynet666's review against another edition
4.0
This seems to be the same book as Dark House. A great listen.
helgamharb's review against another edition
4.0
What goes around comes around.
An old man is found brutally murdered in the ward 13 of an abandoned asylum known as The Moore, once home (or rather a prison) to difficult, unwanted or disabled children.
The police begin their investigations and when an old woman, once a nurse at the same asylum, is murdered, they realize there is a connection between the murders and the notorious asylum.
A dark, intense and unsettling read, The Lost Children is the first in the Detective Lucy Harwin series.
Thanks Andrea for the recommendation. x
An old man is found brutally murdered in the ward 13 of an abandoned asylum known as The Moore, once home (or rather a prison) to difficult, unwanted or disabled children.
The police begin their investigations and when an old woman, once a nurse at the same asylum, is murdered, they realize there is a connection between the murders and the notorious asylum.
A dark, intense and unsettling read, The Lost Children is the first in the Detective Lucy Harwin series.
Thanks Andrea for the recommendation. x
namitakhanna's review against another edition
4.0
The Lost Children is a debut detective novel by Helen Phifer , featuring DI Lucy Harwin
On DI Lucy first day back from work she comes across a heinous murder committed in an asylum that has been closed down for many years. The asylum was a place for troubled children and horrible crimes were committed against them . It finally shut down after a scandal but somebody is bent on taking revenge against the people who ran that place .DI Lucy and her team are on the case and piece by piece the horrors that the kids went through in the asylum are slowly revealed.
It’s a great start to the police procedural series with believable characters. A few twists , fast read and will definitely look forward to more in the series.
Many thanks to Bookouture & NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.
This and more reviews at https://chloesbooksblog.wordpress.com/
On DI Lucy first day back from work she comes across a heinous murder committed in an asylum that has been closed down for many years. The asylum was a place for troubled children and horrible crimes were committed against them . It finally shut down after a scandal but somebody is bent on taking revenge against the people who ran that place .DI Lucy and her team are on the case and piece by piece the horrors that the kids went through in the asylum are slowly revealed.
It’s a great start to the police procedural series with believable characters. A few twists , fast read and will definitely look forward to more in the series.
Many thanks to Bookouture & NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.
This and more reviews at https://chloesbooksblog.wordpress.com/
tillymorton's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
chanteld's review against another edition
2.0
The start of this book is intriguing. I loved the idea of a leas female detective with some angst and grit. An Olivia Bensen for my reading police crime mysteries. However, I found DI Lucy Harwin keen sixth sense and instincts too on point. Her always being right with every single hunch was problematic.
I hope the series continues with less predictability.
I hope the series continues with less predictability.
shelbyn_goodwin's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars for this one. A few things:
1. I'm not sure how this book has as high of a rating as it does.
2. There was zero mystery as to who the killer was. The "twist" was trying to figure out who the killer changed their identity to which was the easiest thing in the entire world to figure out.
3. Mattie has horrible taste in women. What he saw in Heidi is beyond me.
4. Lucy. Lucy kind of drove me nuts. She was a horrible mom for one. Two, she just knew things or had hunches that were completely out of nowhere that just didn't make sense. And of course, they were always correct. I read a lot of mysteries and that does seem to be a common thing, but in most of them the detective has much more ground for those feelings and hunches. Lucy's, in my opinion, were made because the writer slacked using her imagination to deepen the story and create more of a build up.
5. Somehow, despite all of that, I was still intrigued enough with the story to want to listen to the whole thing. I did a lot of eye rolling, but it still kept my attention enough to keep going.
1. I'm not sure how this book has as high of a rating as it does.
2. There was zero mystery as to who the killer was. The "twist" was trying to figure out who the killer changed their identity to which was the easiest thing in the entire world to figure out.
3. Mattie has horrible taste in women. What he saw in Heidi is beyond me.
4. Lucy. Lucy kind of drove me nuts. She was a horrible mom for one. Two, she just knew things or had hunches that were completely out of nowhere that just didn't make sense. And of course, they were always correct. I read a lot of mysteries and that does seem to be a common thing, but in most of them the detective has much more ground for those feelings and hunches. Lucy's, in my opinion, were made because the writer slacked using her imagination to deepen the story and create more of a build up.
5. Somehow, despite all of that, I was still intrigued enough with the story to want to listen to the whole thing. I did a lot of eye rolling, but it still kept my attention enough to keep going.