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The Playground Murders – Lesley Thomson

About the author

Lesley Thomsongrew up in west London. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter, was a number 1 bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies. Visit her website at

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Website: www.lesleythomson.com

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About the book

'A class above' IAN RANKIN.

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed for ever.

Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn't tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest case concerns a man convicted of killing his mistress. His daughter thinks he's innocent, and needs Stella to prove it.

As Stella sifts through piles of evidence and interview suspects, she discovers a link between the recent murder and a famous case from forty years ago: the shocking death of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in the shadows of an empty playground.

Stella knows that dredging up the past can be dangerous. But as she pieces together the tragedy of what happened to Sarah, she is drawn into a story of jealousy, betrayal and the end of innocence. A story that has not yet reached its end...

Buy links:

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Google Play: https://bit.ly/2DGU2Pp

MY REVIEW

This is book seven in The Detectives Daughter series. I did something I don’t like doing and I jumped right into this book without reading the previous books. The blurb sounded so good I just had to read it. Having said that I don’t feel as if I lost out reading this as a standalone. 

Stella’s dad investigated the murder of a  six year old girl  forty years ago. When Stella finds a link between the murders and a recent murder she’s about to open a can of worms. 

I liked the story of Stella and Jack, with Jacks twins Millie and Justin. 

I found this to be a slow starter but a good read also. I’m hoping to read the previous books in this series as soon as I can.

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