Hi Cara,
Today on my blog I am reviewing Dancing with the Dead by S.A Dunphy. Dancing with the Dead is the first book in the Boyle & Keneally series. Dancing with the Dead comes out on the 3rd of September 2021.
In a small town on Ireland’s west coast, a young woman named Penelope O’Dwyer leaves a restaurant. It should take five minutes to walk back to where she’s staying. In those five minutes she disappears without a trace.
It’s a few days before the tape arrives. The kidnapper’s face is masked, his voice distorted, but no one doubts for a second he will follow through on his threat: a ritual murder at the end of October – and after that, many more murders to come. Penelope has two weeks to live. And the police don’t have a single lead.
Detective Seamus Keneally insists they need help. Especially when imprisoned murderer Frederick Morgan offers vital information connecting this case to a series of historic murders. But he will only speak to one person: criminal behaviourist Jessie Boyle. Jessie is still grieving after a brutal tragedy that cut her career in London short – but right now, she’s the only chance Penelope has.
Morgan claims this is the work of a serial killer who’s been working in the shadows for longer than the police have ever realised. Now Jessie must use all her instincts and insight to get inside the mind of a criminal more ruthless than any she’s faced in her career – before the evil that has secretly stalked Ireland for decades is unleashed again.
(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)Â
Dancing with the Dead is an entertaining crime fiction with all the charm of Ireland.Â
S.A Dunphy has a mixed history with an interesting case that involves Kidnapping, murder and serial killers. I am a history geek, so the way the old case connected I found fascinating. Especially as my knowledge of Ireland is lacking.Â
The investigating team are Jessie Boyle, Seamus Keneally and Terri Kehoe. All three of them are very different but work well together. I like how Seamus and Terri are building a brother/ sister relationship. It was nice also reading Gaelic.Â
The more books I read the more suspicious I become, and that's why I wasn't surprised with a revelation towards the end. But overall a good book with strong characters, and a group that I want to read more about.Â
My rating for Dancing with the Dead is 4 out of 5.Â
Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for gifting me a copy of Dancing with the dead for review.Â
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