About the Book- Stolen by Paul Finch
‘A fast-paced, terrifying journey.’ RACHEL ABBOTT
‘A born storyteller.’ PETER JAMES
The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his latest nail-shredding thriller – a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge.
How do you find the missing when there’s no trail to follow?
DC Lucy Clayburn is having a tough time of it. Not only is her estranged father one of the North West’s toughest gangsters, but she is in the midst of one of the biggest police operations of her life.
Members of the public have started to disappear, taken from the streets as they’re going about their every day lives. But no bodies are appearing – it’s almost as if the victims never existed.
Lucy must chase a trail of dead ends and false starts as the disappearances mount up. But when her father gets caught in the crossfire, the investigation suddenly becomes a whole lot more bloody…
The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his latest nail-shredding thriller – a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge.
The book focused on areas that I was least interested and it sort of underplayed the murder mystery which was its main offering.
Read on for our review of the book Stolen by Paul Finch
Our Review of Stolen by Paul Finch
I had this book on audio and maybe that was the reason that I couldn’t get into the book completely. The narrator’s thick and heavy accent made it hard to keep track of what was going on in the book and from there it was a complete struggle with the book.
If you ask me whether picking up a third book from a series without having read its prequel hampered the reading then the answer is NO. Stolen is my first book from the series and despite not having read the previous I didn’t particularly find it hard to understand the book. What made it hard was as I said, in the beginning, the accent and secondly the fact that the book had a lot of family drama which was opposite to what I was expecting from the book.
The book claimed to be an adrenaline-fuelled thriller with murders and investigation at the core. But what it ended up for me was just being a family drama and gangster politics both of which did nothing to the core plot. The whole family, cop and gangster politics further delayed and sidelined the main murder plot and in the end sort of quickly tied up with a lot of loopholes and more questions.
Perhaps the book wanted to carry it forward to the sequels but for this book, I felt that what it claims to be and what it differs that made it a not great read for me.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I would say that the book, Stolen by Paul Finch was not a good read for me as the audiobook sort of ruined it in the first leg followed by a lacklustre plot. The book focused on areas that I was least interested and it sort of underplayed the murder mystery which was its main offering.
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