The Longest Goodbye by Mari Hannah

 The Longest Goodbye

 by Mari Hannah



The Longest Goodbye by Mari Hannah is published on 18th January 2024. 

My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to Compulsive Readers for inviting me to be a part of  #TeamDaniels.




LIES COST LIVES

THE BRAND NEW KATE DANIELS THRILLER

Three years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice.
Now the prime suspects have been shot dead within hours of their return to the UK.
Has someone finally taken the law into their own hands?

Seeking out the truth will force Kate Daniels to confront her own past mistakes, and put her career, and her team's lives, on the line.


My Review 

The latest in this incredible series of thrillers centred around DCI Kate Daniels has been well worth the wait. The cover itself sets you up for what lies in wait within the pages you are about to read and brings a sense of foreboding before you even start, with this powerful image of the police cap lying in the snow.

The way that Kate and her MIT team investigate the murder of a police colleague, and friend,whose killers have never been brought to justice, along with the killer of the killers, is very cleverly done. You are drawn in to the story lines which take you down paths that merge and part at different stages through the book, characters who one minute you will suspect and the next have empathy with , all the while you are wondering how Kate and her team cope.

Kate's relationship with Jo is now on a secure footing and this helps by allowing the storyline to progress through feelings and emotions that you would expect in a well developed union and being able to look at the cases they are trying to solve without letting themselves get in the way of this.

This is Mari Hannah at her best and I now have a long time until the next book after having the privilege of being able to read all the previous books over the last three moths as part of #TeamDaniels.


About the Author




Multi-award winning Mari Hannah is the author of the Stone & Oliver crime series, the Ryan & O'Neil series and the DCI Kate Daniels series.

In July 2010, she won a Northern Writers' Award for Settled Blood. In 2013, she won the Polari First Book Prize for her debut, The Murder Wall. She was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library 2017 as the author of the most enjoyed collection of work in libraries. In 2019, she was awarded DIVA Wordsmith of the Year. In that same year, Mari was Programming Chair of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival. In 2020, Mari was named as DIVA 'Wordsmith of the Year' and won Capital Crime's 'Crime Book of the Year' award.

She lives in Northumberland with her partner, a former murder detective.


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