The Playground Murders by Lesley Thomson
About the book
'A class above' IAN RANKIN.
Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed for ever.
Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn't tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest case concerns a man convicted of killing his mistress. His daughter thinks he's innocent, and needs Stella to prove it.
As Stella sifts through piles of evidence and interview suspects, she discovers a link between the recent murder and a famous case from forty years ago: the shocking death of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in the shadows of an empty playground.
Stella knows that dredging up the past can be dangerous. But as she pieces together the tragedy of what happened to Sarah, she is drawn into a story of jealousy, betrayal and the end of innocence. A story that has not yet reached its end...
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***REVIEW***
The Playground Murders by Lesley ThomsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
::..Reviewed for Red's Midnight Readers..::
I was very kindly offered an ARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review and I have given it 4 stars.
The Playground Murders is the first book I have read by Lesley Thompson and the 7th in The Detective's Daughter series, however I found it easy to follow as a standalone and didn't feel like I had lost any of important details.
The story flips between the past and the present, taking place 40 years apart when the lives of two children are tragically cut short in 1980 and the repercussions in 2019.
So initially I struggled getting into this story, I found it slow to get going and there were so many characters that I couldn't always remember who was who.
However, once it got going I found myself completely absorbed in the story!! It was full of tension and had such a realistic edge to it, that I couldn't put it down. It was a great story and I will definitely be reading more.
About the author
Lesley Thomsongrew up in west London. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter, was a number 1 bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies. Visit her website at
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Website: www.lesleythomson.com
Twitter: @LesleyjmThomson
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