Book review: Child killer haunts grisly thriller

Midlands-based crime writer Patricia Gibney’s ‘Buried Angels’ is no doubt a page-turner; it revolves around the murder of a mother and her children

Author and writer Patricia Gibney.

Apparently, there are over 1.8m Lottie Parker e-books sold — the fictional detective created by Patricia Gibney, an Irish crime writer from Mullingar.

It is not clear what specifically has inspired Buried Angels but the book’s broad skeleton of buried children and hidden bodies that are difficult to identify is so common a trope as to be familiar across many countries.