β Scribed by Darryl Donaghue
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A small town in the English countryside isolated by a severe storm, and a young female officer, alone and out of her depth. A troubled priest is brutally murdered, leaving behind a journal of the residents' confessional secrets; secrets certain people would have preferred he took to the grave.
As word spreads, the pressure rises as the eyes of the town watch her every move. With no forensic team, no support and a savage killer hiding in a turbulent town, is PC Sarah Gladstone up to the task?
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"I was very fond of Sarah, who strayed from the usual main character mold of a crime book and was very sympathetic as the inexperienced but ambitious underdog." - Andrei Cherascu, author of Mindguard.
"For a debut book from Donaghue, he certainly knows what he's doing and writes like he's been doing so for years." - E.L Wicker, author of Fractured Immortal
*"A Journal of Sin's greatest strength is the character ofinexperienced policewoman, Sarah Galdstone. As well as investigating the case, we also get a fair amount of Sarah's back story and the calls on her time as a police officer with a family. Donaghue doesn't let his experience in the police force dominate the narrative. Instead we get an insight into the complexities of an investigation through the eyes of a detective still feeling her way in her profession...*Based on this first book, I think Donoghue should go from strength to strength as he draws on his wealth of experience." - Sarah Ward, Crimepieces.com
"The strongest element of the book is the central character. Sarah is thoroughly likeable, decent and although she is at the start of her career, she is still a wife and mother first and a copper second. This makes a refreshing change from fictional officers who sacrifice their families for the job. A neat ending points the way that future stories about Sarah Gladstone will travel." - David Prestidge, CrimeFictionLover.com
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