Tell Nobody - Patricia Gibney

A young girl staggers into a police station, covered in blood, mumbling, “I think I killed him.”  When two young boys come across the body of an infant floating where they are fishing, it seems obvious who’s to blame, until another body turns up, and another. 

It’s obvious from the start that Detective Parker has her share of drama and disfunction: a recent house fire has left her and her children living with her mom, a failed romance, a conflict with a supervisor, and a person who wants to unearth her past.

We follow Lottie through the procedures of the investigation as she tries to figure out who would want these children dead while trying to keep herself sane and her family safe.  The author also allows little peeks into the mind of the killer throughout the novel through an on-going internal monologue.

With plenty of twists and turns, some of them quite dark, it was a very quick read.  There were a lot of characters to keep track of and an interconnectedness to them all that I didn’t particularly enjoy, however.

This is the 5th book in the Lottie Parker series.   I have not read any of the other books in the series but feel that this one is able to stand on its own.

I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.