The Trap

Sometimes, you just have to bump a book straight to the top of your TBR pile… An ex-boyfriend once told her that his favorite part of a night out, was walking home, just him and his thoughts on a deserted street. He didn’t need to walk to the front door with his keys squeezed between his fingers, ready to scratch or disable. He didn’t need to text a thumbs up before he went to sleep so that someone at the receiving end could sleep too. The part of the night HE loved, was the part that SHE had to survive. And, yet, she sets a TRAP, night after night, walking the desolate streets where her sister was last seen, hoping to attract a monster. And, that realistic, opening chapter when she voluntarily GETS INTO THE CAR-is TERRIFYING!! (Shout out to the Cover Art!) Three women have disappeared, never to be seen again. Tana Meehan, legally separated from her abusive husband was the first. Nicola (Nicki) Sullivan, who was last seen leaving a Pub after drinks with friends was next. And, 17 year old, Jennifer Gold vanished while out walking her dog, who returned home without her. Operation Tide was formed when the girls were linked because their smashed cell phones were all found at the scenes where they were last seen. When Angela Fitzgerald, a Gardai support staff member member for the Missing Persons Unit (MPU) receives some “physical evidence” brought in by a Charity Shop employee, she finds herself teamed up with a fast rising Detective, Denise Pope, who has been the Family Liaison Officer (FLO) for two of the families with missing women. Could there be fourth Victim? “You’re not being told everything. Call me, and I”ll tell you” Lucy Sullivan, who is currently living with her sister’s boyfriend, Chris, has admittedly been RECKLESS as she searches for answers into her sister’s disappearance. So, when she gets that message from former tabloid correspondent, turned “True Crime Expert” Jack Keane, she bites. She cannot move forward without answers, or stop herself from doing “stupid things”. And, interspersed with the chapters of Lucy, and the two women who have teamed up to investigate the crimes outside of “Operation Tide”, are some from the first person POV of the ABDUCTOR-deemed “The Phantom” by that author who wrote the book, “The Nothing Man”. He will CONFIDE to us, how he succeeds in getting his Victims into his car, AND how he chooses his VICTIMS, and you, yes YOU, might recognize yourself as a person he may have preyed on. How CREEPY is that? I am still thinking about the ending!

One year ago Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left her friends at a Dublin pub and vanished into the night. Nobody seemed to care that Nicki went missing until a wealthy debutant is snatched outside of her home in what appears to be a string of connected cases. Lucy, not seeing the results she wants, takes matters into her own hands to catch the man responsible. Angela, a civilian from the Missing Persons Unit, discovers something that could potentially solve the case of the missing women or destroy her dreams of joining the Irish police force. A man who has never been captured for his crimes is about to share all of his secrets with one woman…his latest victim. The Trap is an exciting new twisty thriller that takes you once again into the mind of a killer. I really enjoy how the reader is given the killer’s perspective (much like her novel The Nothing Man). This story primarily follows Lucy who is searching for his sister. She appears to be a victim in case involving several missing women. About to give up on her search for the killer, a new clue indicates the women might still be alive. Another thing that I found interesting was reading about the authors childhood and how she was inspired for this novel. This was such a quick entertaining read for me…I highly recommend checking out this new twisty thriller.