Where She Lies (Detective Finnegan Beck, #1)

by Michael Scanlon

[Emma (SCR)]

This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Thank you to Bookouture for letting me take part in this tour and for my copy of this book via netgalley. I am a sucker for an Irish accent so a Detective series set in Ireland was an instant must.

The main character is Beck. Beck has recently been moved to Cross Beg from Dublin. There is a big mystery as to why Beck has been demoted and moved to the sleepy town of Cross Beg. I am intrigued to find out more of Beck's backstory as the series continues. I want to know how he got into the situation in Dublin that led to his demotion. I feel there is quite a story there.

This book, however, is about the murder of Tanya. A teenager who is found strangled in the woods. There are multiple suspects and as the story unravelled I really struggled to work out who the culprit was.

Michael did an excellent job of building the suspense and mystery. The beginning was slow but as the story developed the I was hooked. I really raced through the last third of this book!

I really enjoyed unravelling this mystery and I can't wait to return to Detective Beck and his story.