Book Review: A Stolen Child by by Sarah Stewart Taylor

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Sarah Stewart Taylor is known for her atmospheric portrayal of an American detective in Ireland, and her critically acclaimed series returns with A Stolen Child.

Synopsis:

After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is now officially a Garda. She’s finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she’s happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood.

When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered—days after responding to a possible domestic violence disturbance at her apartment—they also discover Jade's toddler daughter missing. Shorthanded thanks to an investigation into a gangland murder in the neighborhood, Maggie’s friend, Detective Inspector Roly Byrne, brings her onto his team to help find the missing child. But when a key discovery is made, the case only becomes more confusing—and more dangerous. Amidst a nationwide manhunt, Maggie and her colleagues must look deep into Jade’s life—both personal and professional—to find a ruthless killer.

Review: 

This is book 4 in the series, and just as intriguing as the first book! Maggie has completed her irish police training and is settling into her new life in Ireland, with a combined household with her botfriend and their kids, and all the inhereit chaos from that situation, when she finds herself infamiliar territority when a death quickly turns into murder, and as one of the first officers on the scene, she has info to help the detective squad. Thanks to Roly, she gets assigned to help the squad on the murder, and ends up showing them just how good of a detective she is, as she helps to see justice for Jade. It's an interesting loom at starting over  combined with a pageturner mystery!

About the Author:

SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of the Sweeney St. George series and the Maggie D'arcy series. Taylor grew up on Long Island in New York and was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont and Trinity College in Dublin. She lived in Dublin, Ireland in the mid-90s and she now lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.