The Drowned Girls: 1 (Angie Pallorino, 1) Paperback – 20 Jun. 2017

Follow Detective Angie Pallorino of the RCMP as she is on the trail of a violent rapist and killer.The Drowned Girls is a well put together crime thriller where the central character is Detective Angie Pallorino. Many other police officers take a large role in this story and their characters shine through. But Angie is the star and her job and life is not made easy by many, many things.The character development of Angie is superb. She is a full on woman, working hard in a man’s world. Angie has a mysterious backstory which unfolds throughout the book. She is not a nun and does enjoy an exciting sex life.The plot of the story is very good and the backstory of the victims is brilliant. We not only have murder but violent rape, rough sex and the horrors of FGM.As usual Loreth puts a dog into her story. This time the featured dog is a 3 legged Jack Russell, which brought back memories of my pet Barney who died when he was 13.I liked how characters were put up that raised your suspicions that they were the bad guy committing these crimes. I also liked how the bad guy had chapter’s written from their point of view.This is the 4th Loreth Anne White novel I have read on the trot. I like how it has echoes of her other books. There are the problems of memories, problems when sex goes wrong, scenes involving wandering about with hand held torches, trekking through the wilderness and lots of adverse weather.I like how yet again some romance was woven into the plot. This time it was rather sexed up but did not make me feel uncomfortable, just “rather them than me”!I found The Drowned Girls to be an outstanding read, all the little bits added up together to bring me just what I want from my leisure time reading. There are even little bits of subtle humour woven into the story, for example: the public house were police officers meet after work is called The Flying Pig. So, there you have it, another 5 star read from Loreth.

Another awesome book from the author.Well written, thick plot, suspense, thriller and a bit of romance.Highly recommend this.

Loved this book. The characters, the storyline and the way it was written just drew me in from the first page to the last. Made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Cant wait to read more of her books

A very well written book which kept my interest to the very end. She is clearly very well versed in psychiatric problems and abuse issues,and writes about all of it in an interesting and very realistic way,whilst providing much excitement and action to keep the story going. A very talented writer indeed

This lively story was gripping both for the horror and the romance, they complimented each other nicely though the horror was rough to read about realising how true to life it is.

If I read a book and don't want to put it down then its a winner. It's nicely placed and has strong believable characters. The plot wasn't so thin you could predict, it was well thought out and well written. My only moan is that authors seem to always make the main character in a crime novel someone who has some traumatised life experience so they themselves are on the edge, always fighting their own demons. Yet of course they are also brilliant at their job but not quite conventional. Can't we just have a hero who is just a hard working person who just loves their job.

A complex plot with a lot of sexual content, the protagonist investigating the rape and murder of the victims has mental issues of her own and I wasn’t keen on some of the graphic sexual and violent scenes. There was also a problem reading this on my kindle as it was slow to go to the next page and often reverted to the review page. In the end I gave up and deleted it.

Really enjoyed this book and already downloaded the next in the series.Well wrtitten, kept you guessing, all signs of a great book.