Blog Tour: Book Review: Games People Play by Owen Mullen
Lovely to host my old friend Owen Mullen on The Crime Warp again. Huge thanks to Boldwood Books and Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me. Here's the Blurb ...
Games People Play
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reluctantly agrees to take the case.
While
her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted
from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at
private investigator Charlie Cameron’s office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows
who has taken his daughter. And why.
Against
his better judgment, Charlie takes the case—and when bodies are discovered, he
suspects this may not be an isolated crime. Is there a serial killer whose work
has gone undetected for decades? Is baby Lily his latest victim? Charlie won’t
be able to give up on this case. Memories and guilt from his childhood won’t
let him…
My Thoughts
I always love a good bit of Scottish crime fiction and I really love a good PI novel, so if you are like me, then Games People Play is definitely one for you.
Charlie Cameron is a complex character with some baggage that he hasn't managed to fully dissect. This makes him edgy, a little unpredictable and hugely likeable. He's not judgmental, he's got loads of friends and he carries on regardless of his personal traumas. - Just the sort of PI you ant to have onside.
As for the other characters - well, in Games People Play, as the title suggests, you get a healthy dose of the dregs of humanity. alongside the salt of the earth and that is one of the reasons I was so invested in the novel. I love novels with multiple layers that slowly are peeled away over the course of the story line and Mullen is an expert at keeping us readers on our toes. I soon came to expect the unexpected and was drawn deeper and deeper into the story with each page I turned.
This is a complicated, multi- faceted tale of bad deeds, complex motivations and with a healthy dose of humour to make the darkness all the more palatable.
A great read ... but then I wouldn't expect any less from Owen Mullen.
Author Bio
Purchase Link - https://amzn.to/2MoF1t8
Owen Mullen is a highly regarded crime author who splits his time between Scotland and the island of Crete. In his earlier life he lived in London and worked as a musician and session singer. He has now written seven books and his first gangland thriller for Boldwood, Family was published in January 2021.
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