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Katie Maguire #12
Pay Back The Devil
An explosion in a house in inner-city Cork sends shock waves through the community. Two people are killed in the blast and, at first, their deaths are believed to be the tragic result of a gas leak - but the victims' pasts suggest otherwise.
A HISTORY OF TERROR
The target is clear: the Dripsey Dozen, a group created by descendants of five local IRA soldiers who were executed for their crimes in 1921.
A POLICE CONSPIRACY
Despite the surviving members of the Dozen being relocated to safe houses, the bombing continues. Which means a leak at Anglesea Street Garda station is supplying confidential information to this new terrorist.
This is suspended officer DS KATIE MAGUIRE's chance to get back on the force – and stop a traitor from burning Cork to the ground...
A HISTORY OF TERROR
The target is clear: the Dripsey Dozen, a group created by descendants of five local IRA soldiers who were executed for their crimes in 1921.
A POLICE CONSPIRACY
Despite the surviving members of the Dozen being relocated to safe houses, the bombing continues. Which means a leak at Anglesea Street Garda station is supplying confidential information to this new terrorist.
This is suspended officer DS KATIE MAGUIRE's chance to get back on the force – and stop a traitor from burning Cork to the ground...
436 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2024
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About the author
Graham Masterton
422 books1,968 followersGraham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.
At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines.
Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern.
Altogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear.
He has also written horror novels for children (House of Bones, Hair-Raiser) and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts.
Since then Graham has published more than 35 horror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America; Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Review of Books; and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wilde's tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France.
He and his wife Wiescka live in a Gothic Victorian mansion high above the River Lee in Cork, Ireland.
At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines.
Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern.
Altogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear.
He has also written horror novels for children (House of Bones, Hair-Raiser) and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts.
Since then Graham has published more than 35 horror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America; Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Review of Books; and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wilde's tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France.
He and his wife Wiescka live in a Gothic Victorian mansion high above the River Lee in Cork, Ireland.
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December 17, 2024
Always happy to grab for a Graham Masterton novel, I was pleased to get back into the Katie Macguire series. Masterton delivers a winner with this intense novel, whose story leaves little time for the reader to gather their breath. Katie Macguire has been on suspension and awaits news of her reinstatement. She is as shocked as many in Ireland when a number of bombings explode across the country, with potential ties to an old skirmish between the IRA and a local, pro-British group. While Katie fights to get back to work, she must also deal with some issues in her personal life and a secondary case about a website promising fulfillment of desires like no other. Graham Masterton does well with this piece and reminds the series fan why Katie Macguire is one protagonist worth their time.
While Katie Macguire has been eager to get back to work, she must go through the motions of the suspension handed to her by her superiors. The Garda play by the rules, though DS Macguire can only wonder why they are investing so much time on her. When an explosion rocks a house in Cork, the community is on edge, unsure what’s gone on. Two people are dead and there appears to be some talk of a gas leak, though something does not sit right with DS Macguire, who voices her concerns to anyone who will listen.
When another bomb explodes in town, DS Macguire draws parallels between the victims at the Dripsey Dozen, a group who were tied to a bombing back in 1972. Might there be someone who is targeting those family members tied to the Dozen? DS Macguire makes her case to the Garda in hopes of being reinstated. She feels that the detective in charge of things is missing key clues and cannot be left out of the investigation. She’s able to bend the ear of at least a few and is soon back on the case.
While the remaining families are sent into saf houses, the bombings do not stop, leaving DS Macguire to suspect that there is a leak in the Garda, sending information to the bomber and trying to keep the Dripsey Dozen on edge. All the while, DS Macguire has been trying to forge a lasting relationship with her long-time beau, but a lapse in judgment leaves her with nothing to call her own and added angst. If this were not enough, DS Macguire has to handle someone who is running a lustful website and promising the delivery of any dream the individual desires.
As the truth about the Dripsey Dozen comes to light, DS Katie Macguire will have to push the limits in order to piece the case together and capture a bomber. Cork remains on edge and there are few who could handle this case better than DS Macguire, whose passion for the job is as intense as her love for those she holds dear. Masterton presents an intense thriller that reminds me why I enjoy this series and left me wanting more.
While I binge-read much of this series a while back, I was pleased to return for yet another great thriller. Graham Masterton presents a strong Irish thriller that kept my heart pumping and made me eager to delve deeper into the series. The narrative led the way with a strong story and kept me wondering from chapter to chapter. The story gains momentum and provides an exciting adventure the further things progress. Great characters add a wonderful thriller and Irish flavour, providing the reader with a sense of being in Cork during the height of a police investigation. Plot points provide a well-established criminal investigation and leaves the reader sensing a number of surprise revelations to add depth and intrigue to the story. I am eager to see Graham Masterton resume his work on this series, as it is quite well-established and well worth a deeper dive.
Kudos, Mr. Masterton, for offering up a strong thriller series with a noticeable Irish angle.
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While Katie Macguire has been eager to get back to work, she must go through the motions of the suspension handed to her by her superiors. The Garda play by the rules, though DS Macguire can only wonder why they are investing so much time on her. When an explosion rocks a house in Cork, the community is on edge, unsure what’s gone on. Two people are dead and there appears to be some talk of a gas leak, though something does not sit right with DS Macguire, who voices her concerns to anyone who will listen.
When another bomb explodes in town, DS Macguire draws parallels between the victims at the Dripsey Dozen, a group who were tied to a bombing back in 1972. Might there be someone who is targeting those family members tied to the Dozen? DS Macguire makes her case to the Garda in hopes of being reinstated. She feels that the detective in charge of things is missing key clues and cannot be left out of the investigation. She’s able to bend the ear of at least a few and is soon back on the case.
While the remaining families are sent into saf houses, the bombings do not stop, leaving DS Macguire to suspect that there is a leak in the Garda, sending information to the bomber and trying to keep the Dripsey Dozen on edge. All the while, DS Macguire has been trying to forge a lasting relationship with her long-time beau, but a lapse in judgment leaves her with nothing to call her own and added angst. If this were not enough, DS Macguire has to handle someone who is running a lustful website and promising the delivery of any dream the individual desires.
As the truth about the Dripsey Dozen comes to light, DS Katie Macguire will have to push the limits in order to piece the case together and capture a bomber. Cork remains on edge and there are few who could handle this case better than DS Macguire, whose passion for the job is as intense as her love for those she holds dear. Masterton presents an intense thriller that reminds me why I enjoy this series and left me wanting more.
While I binge-read much of this series a while back, I was pleased to return for yet another great thriller. Graham Masterton presents a strong Irish thriller that kept my heart pumping and made me eager to delve deeper into the series. The narrative led the way with a strong story and kept me wondering from chapter to chapter. The story gains momentum and provides an exciting adventure the further things progress. Great characters add a wonderful thriller and Irish flavour, providing the reader with a sense of being in Cork during the height of a police investigation. Plot points provide a well-established criminal investigation and leaves the reader sensing a number of surprise revelations to add depth and intrigue to the story. I am eager to see Graham Masterton resume his work on this series, as it is quite well-established and well worth a deeper dive.
Kudos, Mr. Masterton, for offering up a strong thriller series with a noticeable Irish angle.
Love/hate the review? An ever-growing collection of others appears at:
http://pecheyponderings.wordpress.com/
October 15, 2024
Devastatingly brilliant, as ever. The writer doesn’t even let you sit back in your chair as a comfortable scene is set on the very first page and just as quickly obliterated in a gore fest. He has the unique skill of endearing you to a domestic family in just a couple of paragraphs and then just as quickly ripping them away in a horrific explosive end…. The Irish backdrop is atmospheric and a culturally rich journey. I love navigating my way through the Gaelic names and place names and the turns of phrase of the main characters. The story is very clever and draws upon all too real history and conflicts, plus other hard to touch subjects such as prostitution, police corruption and extortion to name but a few. The action is fast and punchy and you’re really drawn into the criminal underworlds and also the personal lives of the main characters, for which quite a few tears were shed along the way. Brilliant, exhilarating writing and left me wanting to know what happens next, just as it should. Absolutely recommend.
October 14, 2024
A deadly campaign.. a history of terror.. a police conspiracy..
This is a detective crime thriller set in Ireland with gruesome crimes. There are a few different storylines going on, but fairly easy to follow each.
Overall I found it be an intriguing read. It is over 400 pages and has a slower start, but it definitely picked up pace once Katie was back at work and the twists started.
This was the twelfth installment in a police procedural series. When I initially planned to read this- I was not aware it was part of a series. However, I was able to still read it as a stand-alone and get into the plot, but it would’ve been helpful to read some of the previous ones just to know a bit more about Katie’s backstory.
Thank you @headofzeus & @grahammasterton for this #gifted e-copy!🫶🏼
This is a detective crime thriller set in Ireland with gruesome crimes. There are a few different storylines going on, but fairly easy to follow each.
Overall I found it be an intriguing read. It is over 400 pages and has a slower start, but it definitely picked up pace once Katie was back at work and the twists started.
This was the twelfth installment in a police procedural series. When I initially planned to read this- I was not aware it was part of a series. However, I was able to still read it as a stand-alone and get into the plot, but it would’ve been helpful to read some of the previous ones just to know a bit more about Katie’s backstory.
Thank you @headofzeus & @grahammasterton for this #gifted e-copy!🫶🏼
March 24, 2025
Z dwunastu tomów cyklu kryminalnego z Katie Maguire przeczytałam dotychczas cztery, ale wystarczył mi jeden, by stwierdzić, że ta wyjątkowa i charyzmatyczna nadkomisarz na zawsze zagrzeje miejsce w moim sercu. W najnowszej części „Nawet diabeł go nie chce” z 26 lutego, Graham Masterton wstrząsa nie tylko spokojnym irlandzkim Cork, ale również życiem zawodowym i osobistym głównej bohaterki. I czyni to z tak wybuchową mieszanką napięcia, emocji i brutalności, nie oszczędzając nikogo i nie biorąc jeńców, że zdecydowanie nie jest to lektura dla osób o słabych nerwach.
Ta powieść to przede wszystkim opowieść o zemście, która zatruwa duszę niczym trucizna sącząca się latami. Przy czytaniu wielokrotnie można zadać sobie pytanie: „co stało się z przebaczeniem?” Czy zemsta nigdy się nie kończy, sięgając po ofiary kolejnych i kolejnych pokoleń? Czy w końcu ktoś powie „dość”? A może ciemne zaułki ludzkiej duszy zawsze będą przeważać nad jasnymi?
Katie Maguire, mimo chwilowego zawieszenia, nie potrafi stać bezczynnie, gdy w eksplozjach giną niewinni ludzie. Czy tylko ona dostrzega związek między wybuchami a Dwunastką z Dripsey, organizacją założoną przez potomków bojowników IRA, straconych przed wieloma laty? Czy jej zastępca jedynie z niechęci wobec niej neguje wszelkie jej sugestie, ryzykując życiem kolejnych osób? Równie niepokojąco rysuje się sprawa zaginięcia policjanta, którą Katie na prośbę jego żony zajmuje się nieoficjalnie.
Podobnie jak w obu śledztwach, również w życiu osobistym Katie rozgrywa się dramat, a jej wybory prowadzą do konsekwencji, których będzie żałować do końca swych dni. Czy rzeczywiście jest gotowa na spokojne życie, jako żona i matka? A może na siłę próbuje przekonać o tym nawet samą siebie?
Dużo w tej części bólu rozdzierającego duszę, a obrazy zwyczajnego, rodzinnego życia ofiar brutalnie rozrywanego na strzępy przyciskiem detonatora pozostają pod powiekami na długo. Podziw i ciepłe emocje budzi natomiast bohater szczególny, pies Harvey, który swoimi umiejętnościami ocali niejedno życie.
„Nawet diabeł go nie chce” to thriller wciągający jak wir, z którego nie sposób się wyrwać, szokujący brutalnością opisów i niedający o sobie zapomnieć. To opowieść o tym, że przeszłość nigdy nie umiera i zawsze upomina się o swoje. Zakończenie, choć dalekie od szczęśliwego, daje iskierkę nadziei, że przebaczenie nie jest jednak ludziom zupełnie obce.
Ta powieść to przede wszystkim opowieść o zemście, która zatruwa duszę niczym trucizna sącząca się latami. Przy czytaniu wielokrotnie można zadać sobie pytanie: „co stało się z przebaczeniem?” Czy zemsta nigdy się nie kończy, sięgając po ofiary kolejnych i kolejnych pokoleń? Czy w końcu ktoś powie „dość”? A może ciemne zaułki ludzkiej duszy zawsze będą przeważać nad jasnymi?
Katie Maguire, mimo chwilowego zawieszenia, nie potrafi stać bezczynnie, gdy w eksplozjach giną niewinni ludzie. Czy tylko ona dostrzega związek między wybuchami a Dwunastką z Dripsey, organizacją założoną przez potomków bojowników IRA, straconych przed wieloma laty? Czy jej zastępca jedynie z niechęci wobec niej neguje wszelkie jej sugestie, ryzykując życiem kolejnych osób? Równie niepokojąco rysuje się sprawa zaginięcia policjanta, którą Katie na prośbę jego żony zajmuje się nieoficjalnie.
Podobnie jak w obu śledztwach, również w życiu osobistym Katie rozgrywa się dramat, a jej wybory prowadzą do konsekwencji, których będzie żałować do końca swych dni. Czy rzeczywiście jest gotowa na spokojne życie, jako żona i matka? A może na siłę próbuje przekonać o tym nawet samą siebie?
Dużo w tej części bólu rozdzierającego duszę, a obrazy zwyczajnego, rodzinnego życia ofiar brutalnie rozrywanego na strzępy przyciskiem detonatora pozostają pod powiekami na długo. Podziw i ciepłe emocje budzi natomiast bohater szczególny, pies Harvey, który swoimi umiejętnościami ocali niejedno życie.
„Nawet diabeł go nie chce” to thriller wciągający jak wir, z którego nie sposób się wyrwać, szokujący brutalnością opisów i niedający o sobie zapomnieć. To opowieść o tym, że przeszłość nigdy nie umiera i zawsze upomina się o swoje. Zakończenie, choć dalekie od szczęśliwego, daje iskierkę nadziei, że przebaczenie nie jest jednak ludziom zupełnie obce.
January 18, 2025
It's been too long, Katie Maguire! She sure is back. This time, Katie is on suspension but can't keep out of the investigation of a series of terrible bombings, much to the annoyance of the temporary officer in charge. The usual great characters and bodies mounting up. It's such a great read.
May 18, 2025
Such a welcome return and a fantastic, easy read that's gripping and fast paced.
More violence, threats, corruption, and a good result.
More violence, threats, corruption, and a good result.
September 17, 2024
1* How Graham Masterton has fallen. This novel insults cop procedurals - it's utterly, utterly flawed. Review contains major spoilers.
I've not read a GM book for at least 30 years. I wish I hadn't picked this one up. In hindsight, this book being on NG - no disrespect to NG intended - should have set alarm bells ringing. I mean, why would one of the current longest established authors in the world need a NG release?
The amount of Irish-speak in this is off-putting, simply because I had to keep pausing and trying to figure out what on earth the expressions meant. It's about 85% Irish-speak, which as a British reader, I'm not fluent in. A lot of what was said, I was only able to guess at.
Book 12 in this series doesn’t need an info dump, as it's pretty much repeated that Katie Maguire is on suspension for killing 2 guys in a previous case. Yes, it's Irish policing, therefore different to British policing, and she's allowed to keep her weapon - presumably not the one she killed with - for her personal safety. She's also apparently permitted to interfere with a current case, persuading her PA and at least 2/3 other officers to breach rules and give her information, telling them she won't forget this when she's back.
She's clearly not a cop who works by procedurals, rather instinct, but how come her instincts doesn't tell her that taking Kyna, her former lover, into her home to recuperate following the latter's suicide attempt - because Katie slept with her in an apparently gratuitous threesome and dumped her (orgasmless) - isn't a good idea? Not only is Kyna a physical and mental mess, but a hospital psych apparently thinks this is a good idea, as if they're not together, it'll just create something of an elephant in the room, for want of a better expression, and proximity to Katie is a good idea. Yes, so good an idea that on a night where Katie's fiancé of 2 days can't get home because of stormy weather, they end up having sex and the guy walks in on them, ultimately making Kyna think she's forced herself on Katie, raping her and breaking her engagement, causing Kyna to kill herself by drinking a corrosive cleaning product. Yes, in Katie's house. Yes, after her suicide attempt because she can't have Katie, who's seemingly moved on from the threesome guy to her now already former judge-fiancé guy. And no, Katie doesn't appear to have been disciplined for a coercive relationship with a subordinate. And she's not even questioned about Kyna being at Katie's home and attempting suicide there. And, forensics don't even come for the evidence when Kyna dies!! And, before Kyna's demise, though still suspended, Katie's discussing the current case with her. In detail, although Kyna's no longer on the force. And, oh, the judge former-fiancé sounds like a eunuch, and at the end of the book, seems to have overcome his concerns that Katie's 'what comes naturally to you' urges are no longer an issue with Kyna's suicide, and comes to confess that he still loves her and wants her back. At Kyna's funeral, of all places. And the book ends there, of course.
Anyway, I've skipped ahead, so back to the case. Unsanctioned, Katie flies to Birmingham and not only finds the bombing suspect in a pub, but sees him with a former senior cop who's escaped justice by faking his disappearance, and overhears the guy's mother, the publican, celebrating the Cork bombings of the current case. And, locals hear this, too, and are watching news of the bombing on the pub's TV. But no one does anything. And, we're told that British police have a good relationship with Cork police, so why doesn't Katie just make one simple call and get all 3 arrested, thus solving the case? Really, why didn't she? I mean, she later calls the UK cops to put in place extradition measures, so yeah, this can't be justified. Disbelief can't be suspended to this degree.
Moving on - as a suspended cop, she decides she's going to investigate the suicide of another cop, and is given his phone with sex videos on it by the guy's wife. So yes, evidence is in her suspended hands, not the police's. We're treated to golden showers - yes, in detail; orgies; the cop apparently being OK with being filmed, and paying for sex whilst his wife's in late-term pregnancy. And this is someone who's described as a good cop. Katie then sets up herself as Sean SomeoneOrOther to create a persona to try and draw out the sex blackmailers (there's also another Sean character, DS Sean Begley, in the book, that the editors don't seem to have noticed. And the characters Michael and Micheál, which didn't cause confusion - not!). Katie apparently goes online and opens a bank account in the name of Sean SomeoneOrOther, and sends funds to the blackmailer. So, entrapment, but HUGE flaws: 1) you can't open an account online without ID and KYC checks. The AML systems currently in place liaise with the DVLA/Irish equivalent, and passport office, so that the ID that absolutely HAS to be provided, gets checked out biometrically. And, yes, it has to be this kind of ID for biometric approval, that stops you having to go into a bank to open an account 2) even with the checks, an account won't be opened in seconds. 3) even if she'd opened this account as a 'sub' using her established account and bank, the remitter of the payment to the blackmailer would show as Katie Maguire, not Sean SomeoneOrOther. Wasn't any fact or reality checking done? Are we meant to suspended disbelief to this degree? Why wasn't this breaking the law? She's faked ID. She's setting up a sting without authorisation.
Anyway, moving on, the guy she persuades to go undercover doesn't reappear for something like 40 minutes before she begins to suspect all's not well. TLDR, he's been flogged to near death, with apparently his spinal bones showing. She doesn’t call it in, but someone does and yes, Katie's not hauled over the coals for this. She's not asked why she's sanctioned an op that no one knows about, when she's still suspended. I kid you not. At the end of the book, we don't know if the guy'll recover from his injuries, if he'll walk again, if sepsis doesn't set in, but yeah, it's not raised. It's like Katie gets away with murder, pun not intentional.
And yeah, there might have been a fake email sent from her police email address, to the former senior cop, giving him details of safe houses to give to the bomber, which simple logic could've debunked, as she wasn't permitted to be in her office, didn't have a work laptop at home, and the email was sent DURING her suspension, given that the case started DURING her suspension. Sheesh. What were these Cork cops thinking? Why wasn't her work PC immediately taken to forensics and the IT techs? Why wasn't Micheál suspected? After all, we're told that Katie's PA had given him Katie's password. And why would, how could, Katie's PA know her password, and why would she share it? Instant dismissal grounds for both. Seriously, this book is so flawed, it's insulting to readers.
Then, and yes, I know it's hard to keep going, and sorry this is a bit out of sequence, but Katie and Kyna go to a former criminal's place of work and Katie gives him her police login details, to enable him to log into her work email and make the faked email disappear. Yes, this guy is a hacker who's out of jail, having promised to not hack again, and by the sounds of it, he's trying to go straight. But, he helps her for the measley sum of Euros 100, and the email is gone. We're meant to believe that Irish police systems are that easily hacked? And, later, despite Micheál and another cop having seen the faked email, which caused Katie's reinstatement to be delayed, i.e. it's being officially investigated, i.e. it's on record, Katie officially denies there ever was such an email. She lies, despite others seeing the email. She's broken the law by requesting the hack of police systems. Yes, again, I kid you not. This is seriously, seriously insulting to readers.
So, that's the tale and those are my issues with it. How it's been approved for publishing is beyond me. No doubt I'll never get another book from this publisher, but ugh, readers need to be aware this book requires so much suspension of disbelief and is badly flawed. And that readers' eyes could be in danger by the amount of eye-rolling that's required.
ARC courtesy of NetGalley aand Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing, for my reading (dis)pleasure.
P.S. there's un-PC stuff like 'The reception area smelled of burned sausages, although she was welcomed warmly enough by a fat friendly woman with a prominent mole on her chin'. Really?
And a cop giving a press conference: 'Micheál looked directly at the camera, and Katie almost felt that he was looking directly and accusingly at her. ‘I’m saying nothing more for the time being,’ he said. ‘I always rely on solid evidence, and never on theories, unlike some officers I could mention. But as soon as I have indisputable proof...' Really?
I've not read a GM book for at least 30 years. I wish I hadn't picked this one up. In hindsight, this book being on NG - no disrespect to NG intended - should have set alarm bells ringing. I mean, why would one of the current longest established authors in the world need a NG release?
The amount of Irish-speak in this is off-putting, simply because I had to keep pausing and trying to figure out what on earth the expressions meant. It's about 85% Irish-speak, which as a British reader, I'm not fluent in. A lot of what was said, I was only able to guess at.
Book 12 in this series doesn’t need an info dump, as it's pretty much repeated that Katie Maguire is on suspension for killing 2 guys in a previous case. Yes, it's Irish policing, therefore different to British policing, and she's allowed to keep her weapon - presumably not the one she killed with - for her personal safety. She's also apparently permitted to interfere with a current case, persuading her PA and at least 2/3 other officers to breach rules and give her information, telling them she won't forget this when she's back.
She's clearly not a cop who works by procedurals, rather instinct, but how come her instincts doesn't tell her that taking Kyna, her former lover, into her home to recuperate following the latter's suicide attempt - because Katie slept with her in an apparently gratuitous threesome and dumped her (orgasmless) - isn't a good idea? Not only is Kyna a physical and mental mess, but a hospital psych apparently thinks this is a good idea, as if they're not together, it'll just create something of an elephant in the room, for want of a better expression, and proximity to Katie is a good idea. Yes, so good an idea that on a night where Katie's fiancé of 2 days can't get home because of stormy weather, they end up having sex and the guy walks in on them, ultimately making Kyna think she's forced herself on Katie, raping her and breaking her engagement, causing Kyna to kill herself by drinking a corrosive cleaning product. Yes, in Katie's house. Yes, after her suicide attempt because she can't have Katie, who's seemingly moved on from the threesome guy to her now already former judge-fiancé guy. And no, Katie doesn't appear to have been disciplined for a coercive relationship with a subordinate. And she's not even questioned about Kyna being at Katie's home and attempting suicide there. And, forensics don't even come for the evidence when Kyna dies!! And, before Kyna's demise, though still suspended, Katie's discussing the current case with her. In detail, although Kyna's no longer on the force. And, oh, the judge former-fiancé sounds like a eunuch, and at the end of the book, seems to have overcome his concerns that Katie's 'what comes naturally to you' urges are no longer an issue with Kyna's suicide, and comes to confess that he still loves her and wants her back. At Kyna's funeral, of all places. And the book ends there, of course.
Anyway, I've skipped ahead, so back to the case. Unsanctioned, Katie flies to Birmingham and not only finds the bombing suspect in a pub, but sees him with a former senior cop who's escaped justice by faking his disappearance, and overhears the guy's mother, the publican, celebrating the Cork bombings of the current case. And, locals hear this, too, and are watching news of the bombing on the pub's TV. But no one does anything. And, we're told that British police have a good relationship with Cork police, so why doesn't Katie just make one simple call and get all 3 arrested, thus solving the case? Really, why didn't she? I mean, she later calls the UK cops to put in place extradition measures, so yeah, this can't be justified. Disbelief can't be suspended to this degree.
Moving on - as a suspended cop, she decides she's going to investigate the suicide of another cop, and is given his phone with sex videos on it by the guy's wife. So yes, evidence is in her suspended hands, not the police's. We're treated to golden showers - yes, in detail; orgies; the cop apparently being OK with being filmed, and paying for sex whilst his wife's in late-term pregnancy. And this is someone who's described as a good cop. Katie then sets up herself as Sean SomeoneOrOther to create a persona to try and draw out the sex blackmailers (there's also another Sean character, DS Sean Begley, in the book, that the editors don't seem to have noticed. And the characters Michael and Micheál, which didn't cause confusion - not!). Katie apparently goes online and opens a bank account in the name of Sean SomeoneOrOther, and sends funds to the blackmailer. So, entrapment, but HUGE flaws: 1) you can't open an account online without ID and KYC checks. The AML systems currently in place liaise with the DVLA/Irish equivalent, and passport office, so that the ID that absolutely HAS to be provided, gets checked out biometrically. And, yes, it has to be this kind of ID for biometric approval, that stops you having to go into a bank to open an account 2) even with the checks, an account won't be opened in seconds. 3) even if she'd opened this account as a 'sub' using her established account and bank, the remitter of the payment to the blackmailer would show as Katie Maguire, not Sean SomeoneOrOther. Wasn't any fact or reality checking done? Are we meant to suspended disbelief to this degree? Why wasn't this breaking the law? She's faked ID. She's setting up a sting without authorisation.
Anyway, moving on, the guy she persuades to go undercover doesn't reappear for something like 40 minutes before she begins to suspect all's not well. TLDR, he's been flogged to near death, with apparently his spinal bones showing. She doesn’t call it in, but someone does and yes, Katie's not hauled over the coals for this. She's not asked why she's sanctioned an op that no one knows about, when she's still suspended. I kid you not. At the end of the book, we don't know if the guy'll recover from his injuries, if he'll walk again, if sepsis doesn't set in, but yeah, it's not raised. It's like Katie gets away with murder, pun not intentional.
And yeah, there might have been a fake email sent from her police email address, to the former senior cop, giving him details of safe houses to give to the bomber, which simple logic could've debunked, as she wasn't permitted to be in her office, didn't have a work laptop at home, and the email was sent DURING her suspension, given that the case started DURING her suspension. Sheesh. What were these Cork cops thinking? Why wasn't her work PC immediately taken to forensics and the IT techs? Why wasn't Micheál suspected? After all, we're told that Katie's PA had given him Katie's password. And why would, how could, Katie's PA know her password, and why would she share it? Instant dismissal grounds for both. Seriously, this book is so flawed, it's insulting to readers.
Then, and yes, I know it's hard to keep going, and sorry this is a bit out of sequence, but Katie and Kyna go to a former criminal's place of work and Katie gives him her police login details, to enable him to log into her work email and make the faked email disappear. Yes, this guy is a hacker who's out of jail, having promised to not hack again, and by the sounds of it, he's trying to go straight. But, he helps her for the measley sum of Euros 100, and the email is gone. We're meant to believe that Irish police systems are that easily hacked? And, later, despite Micheál and another cop having seen the faked email, which caused Katie's reinstatement to be delayed, i.e. it's being officially investigated, i.e. it's on record, Katie officially denies there ever was such an email. She lies, despite others seeing the email. She's broken the law by requesting the hack of police systems. Yes, again, I kid you not. This is seriously, seriously insulting to readers.
So, that's the tale and those are my issues with it. How it's been approved for publishing is beyond me. No doubt I'll never get another book from this publisher, but ugh, readers need to be aware this book requires so much suspension of disbelief and is badly flawed. And that readers' eyes could be in danger by the amount of eye-rolling that's required.
ARC courtesy of NetGalley aand Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing, for my reading (dis)pleasure.
P.S. there's un-PC stuff like 'The reception area smelled of burned sausages, although she was welcomed warmly enough by a fat friendly woman with a prominent mole on her chin'. Really?
And a cop giving a press conference: 'Micheál looked directly at the camera, and Katie almost felt that he was looking directly and accusingly at her. ‘I’m saying nothing more for the time being,’ he said. ‘I always rely on solid evidence, and never on theories, unlike some officers I could mention. But as soon as I have indisputable proof...' Really?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 17, 2024
1* How Graham Masterton has fallen. This novel insults cop procedurals - it's utterly, utterly flawed. Review contains major spoilers.
I've not read a GM book for at least 30 years. I wish I hadn't picked this one up. In hindsight, this book being on NG - no disrespect to NG intended - should have set alarm bells ringing. I mean, why would one of the current longest established authors in the world need a NG release?
The amount of Irish-speak in this is off-putting, simply because I had to keep pausing and trying to figure out what on earth the expressions meant. It's about 85% Irish-speak, which as a British reader, I'm not fluent in. A lot of what was said, I was only able to guess at.
Book 12 in this series doesn’t need an info dump, as it's pretty much repeated that Katie Maguire is on suspension for killing 2 guys in a previous case. Yes, it's Irish policing, therefore different to British policing, and she's allowed to keep her weapon - presumably not the one she killed with - for her personal safety. She's also apparently permitted to interfere with a current case, persuading her PA and at least 2/3 other officers to breach rules and give her information, telling them she won't forget this when she's back.
She's clearly not a cop who works by procedurals, rather instinct, but how come her instincts doesn't tell her that taking Kyna, her former lover, into her home to recuperate following the latter's suicide attempt - because Katie slept with her in an apparently gratuitous threesome and dumped her (orgasmless) - isn't a good idea? Not only is Kyna a physical and mental mess, but a hospital psych apparently thinks this is a good idea, as if they're not together, it'll just create something of an elephant in the room, for want of a better expression, and proximity to Katie is a good idea. Yes, so good an idea that on a night where Katie's fiancé of 2 days can't get home because of stormy weather, they end up having sex and the guy walks in on them, ultimately making Kyna think she's forced herself on Katie, raping her and breaking her engagement, causing Kyna to kill herself by drinking a corrosive cleaning product. Yes, in Katie's house. Yes, after her suicide attempt because she can't have Katie, who's seemingly moved on from the threesome guy to her now already former judge-fiancé guy. And no, Katie doesn't appear to have been disciplined for a coercive relationship with a subordinate. And she's not even questioned about Kyna being at Katie's home and attempting suicide there. And, forensics don't even come for the evidence when Kyna dies!! And, before Kyna's demise, though still suspended, Katie's discussing the current case with her. In detail, although Kyna's no longer on the force. And, oh, the judge former-fiancé sounds like a eunuch, and at the end of the book, seems to have overcome his concerns that Katie's 'what comes naturally to you' urges are no longer an issue with Kyna's suicide, and comes to confess that he still loves her and wants her back. At Kyna's funeral, of all places. And the book ends there, of course.
Anyway, I've skipped ahead, so back to the case. Unsanctioned, Katie flies to Birmingham and not only finds the bombing suspect in a pub, but sees him with a former senior cop who's escaped justice by faking his disappearance, and overhears the guy's mother, the publican, celebrating the Cork bombings of the current case. And, locals hear this, too, and are watching news of the bombing on the pub's TV. But no one does anything. And, we're told that British police have a good relationship with Cork police, so why doesn't Katie just make one simple call and get all 3 arrested, thus solving the case? Really, why didn't she? I mean, she later calls the UK cops to put in place extradition measures, so yeah, this can't be justified. Disbelief can't be suspended to this degree.
Moving on - as a suspended cop, she decides she's going to investigate the suicide of another cop, and is given his phone with sex videos on it by the guy's wife. So yes, evidence is in her suspended hands, not the police's. We're treated to golden showers - yes, in detail; orgies; the cop apparently being OK with being filmed, and paying for sex whilst his wife's in late-term pregnancy. And this is someone who's described as a good cop. Katie then sets up herself as Sean SomeoneOrOther to create a persona to try and draw out the sex blackmailers (there's also another Sean character, DS Sean Begley, in the book, that the editors don't seem to have noticed. And the characters Michael and Micheál, which didn't cause confusion - not!). Katie apparently goes online and opens a bank account in the name of Sean SomeoneOrOther, and sends funds to the blackmailer. So, entrapment, but HUGE flaws: 1) you can't open an account online without ID and KYC checks. The AML systems currently in place liaise with the DVLA/Irish equivalent, and passport office, so that the ID that absolutely HAS to be provided, gets checked out biometrically. And, yes, it has to be this kind of ID for biometric approval, that stops you having to go into a bank to open an account 2) even with the checks, an account won't be opened in seconds. 3) even if she'd opened this account as a 'sub' using her established account and bank, the remitter of the payment to the blackmailer would show as Katie Maguire, not Sean SomeoneOrOther. Wasn't any fact or reality checking done? Are we meant to suspended disbelief to this degree? Why wasn't this breaking the law? She's faked ID. She's setting up a sting without authorisation.
Anyway, moving on, the guy she persuades to go undercover doesn't reappear for something like 40 minutes before she begins to suspect all's not well. TLDR, he's been flogged to near death, with apparently his spinal bones showing. She doesn’t call it in, but someone does and yes, Katie's not hauled over the coals for this. She's not asked why she's sanctioned an op that no one knows about, when she's still suspended. I kid you not. At the end of the book, we don't know if the guy'll recover from his injuries, if he'll walk again, if sepsis doesn't set in, but yeah, it's not raised. It's like Katie gets away with murder, pun not intentional.
And yeah, there might have been a fake email sent from her police email address, to the former senior cop, giving him details of safe houses to give to the bomber, which simple logic could've debunked, as she wasn't permitted to be in her office, didn't have a work laptop at home, and the email was sent DURING her suspension, given that the case started DURING her suspension. Sheesh. What were these Cork cops thinking? Why wasn't her work PC immediately taken to forensics and the IT techs? Why wasn't Micheál suspected? After all, we're told that Katie's PA had given him Katie's password. And why would, how could, Katie's PA know her password, and why would she share it? Instant dismissal grounds for both. Seriously, this book is so flawed, it's insulting to readers.
Then, and yes, I know it's hard to keep going, and sorry this is a bit out of sequence, but Katie and Kyna go to a former criminal's place of work and Katie gives him her police login details, to enable him to log into her work email and make the faked email disappear. Yes, this guy is a hacker who's out of jail, having promised to not hack again, and by the sounds of it, he's trying to go straight. But, he helps her for the measley sum of Euros 100, and the email is gone. We're meant to believe that Irish police systems are that easily hacked? And, later, despite Micheál and another cop having seen the faked email, which caused Katie's reinstatement to be delayed, i.e. it's being officially investigated, i.e. it's on record, Katie officially denies there ever was such an email. She lies, despite others seeing the email. She's broken the law by requesting the hack of police systems. Yes, again, I kid you not. This is seriously, seriously insulting to readers.
So, that's the tale and those are my issues with it. How it's been approved for publishing is beyond me. No doubt I'll never get another book from this publisher, but ugh, readers need to be aware this book requires so much suspension of disbelief and is badly flawed. And that readers' eyes could be in danger by the amount of eye-rolling that's required.
ARC courtesy of NetGalley aand Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing, for my reading (dis)pleasure.
P.S. there's un-PC stuff like 'The reception area smelled of burned sausages, although she was welcomed warmly enough by a fat friendly woman with a prominent mole on her chin'. Really?
And a cop giving a press conference: 'Micheál looked directly at the camera, and Katie almost felt that he was looking directly and accusingly at her. ‘I’m saying nothing more for the time being,’ he said. ‘I always rely on solid evidence, and never on theories, unlike some officers I could mention. But as soon as I have indisputable proof...' Really?
I've not read a GM book for at least 30 years. I wish I hadn't picked this one up. In hindsight, this book being on NG - no disrespect to NG intended - should have set alarm bells ringing. I mean, why would one of the current longest established authors in the world need a NG release?
The amount of Irish-speak in this is off-putting, simply because I had to keep pausing and trying to figure out what on earth the expressions meant. It's about 85% Irish-speak, which as a British reader, I'm not fluent in. A lot of what was said, I was only able to guess at.
Book 12 in this series doesn’t need an info dump, as it's pretty much repeated that Katie Maguire is on suspension for killing 2 guys in a previous case. Yes, it's Irish policing, therefore different to British policing, and she's allowed to keep her weapon - presumably not the one she killed with - for her personal safety. She's also apparently permitted to interfere with a current case, persuading her PA and at least 2/3 other officers to breach rules and give her information, telling them she won't forget this when she's back.
She's clearly not a cop who works by procedurals, rather instinct, but how come her instincts doesn't tell her that taking Kyna, her former lover, into her home to recuperate following the latter's suicide attempt - because Katie slept with her in an apparently gratuitous threesome and dumped her (orgasmless) - isn't a good idea? Not only is Kyna a physical and mental mess, but a hospital psych apparently thinks this is a good idea, as if they're not together, it'll just create something of an elephant in the room, for want of a better expression, and proximity to Katie is a good idea. Yes, so good an idea that on a night where Katie's fiancé of 2 days can't get home because of stormy weather, they end up having sex and the guy walks in on them, ultimately making Kyna think she's forced herself on Katie, raping her and breaking her engagement, causing Kyna to kill herself by drinking a corrosive cleaning product. Yes, in Katie's house. Yes, after her suicide attempt because she can't have Katie, who's seemingly moved on from the threesome guy to her now already former judge-fiancé guy. And no, Katie doesn't appear to have been disciplined for a coercive relationship with a subordinate. And she's not even questioned about Kyna being at Katie's home and attempting suicide there. And, forensics don't even come for the evidence when Kyna dies!! And, before Kyna's demise, though still suspended, Katie's discussing the current case with her. In detail, although Kyna's no longer on the force. And, oh, the judge former-fiancé sounds like a eunuch, and at the end of the book, seems to have overcome his concerns that Katie's 'what comes naturally to you' urges are no longer an issue with Kyna's suicide, and comes to confess that he still loves her and wants her back. At Kyna's funeral, of all places. And the book ends there, of course.
Anyway, I've skipped ahead, so back to the case. Unsanctioned, Katie flies to Birmingham and not only finds the bombing suspect in a pub, but sees him with a former senior cop who's escaped justice by faking his disappearance, and overhears the guy's mother, the publican, celebrating the Cork bombings of the current case. And, locals hear this, too, and are watching news of the bombing on the pub's TV. But no one does anything. And, we're told that British police have a good relationship with Cork police, so why doesn't Katie just make one simple call and get all 3 arrested, thus solving the case? Really, why didn't she? I mean, she later calls the UK cops to put in place extradition measures, so yeah, this can't be justified. Disbelief can't be suspended to this degree.
Moving on - as a suspended cop, she decides she's going to investigate the suicide of another cop, and is given his phone with sex videos on it by the guy's wife. So yes, evidence is in her suspended hands, not the police's. We're treated to golden showers - yes, in detail; orgies; the cop apparently being OK with being filmed, and paying for sex whilst his wife's in late-term pregnancy. And this is someone who's described as a good cop. Katie then sets up herself as Sean SomeoneOrOther to create a persona to try and draw out the sex blackmailers (there's also another Sean character, DS Sean Begley, in the book, that the editors don't seem to have noticed. And the characters Michael and Micheál, which didn't cause confusion - not!). Katie apparently goes online and opens a bank account in the name of Sean SomeoneOrOther, and sends funds to the blackmailer. So, entrapment, but HUGE flaws: 1) you can't open an account online without ID and KYC checks. The AML systems currently in place liaise with the DVLA/Irish equivalent, and passport office, so that the ID that absolutely HAS to be provided, gets checked out biometrically. And, yes, it has to be this kind of ID for biometric approval, that stops you having to go into a bank to open an account 2) even with the checks, an account won't be opened in seconds. 3) even if she'd opened this account as a 'sub' using her established account and bank, the remitter of the payment to the blackmailer would show as Katie Maguire, not Sean SomeoneOrOther. Wasn't any fact or reality checking done? Are we meant to suspended disbelief to this degree? Why wasn't this breaking the law? She's faked ID. She's setting up a sting without authorisation.
Anyway, moving on, the guy she persuades to go undercover doesn't reappear for something like 40 minutes before she begins to suspect all's not well. TLDR, he's been flogged to near death, with apparently his spinal bones showing. She doesn’t call it in, but someone does and yes, Katie's not hauled over the coals for this. She's not asked why she's sanctioned an op that no one knows about, when she's still suspended. I kid you not. At the end of the book, we don't know if the guy'll recover from his injuries, if he'll walk again, if sepsis doesn't set in, but yeah, it's not raised. It's like Katie gets away with murder, pun not intentional.
And yeah, there might have been a fake email sent from her police email address, to the former senior cop, giving him details of safe houses to give to the bomber, which simple logic could've debunked, as she wasn't permitted to be in her office, didn't have a work laptop at home, and the email was sent DURING her suspension, given that the case started DURING her suspension. Sheesh. What were these Cork cops thinking? Why wasn't her work PC immediately taken to forensics and the IT techs? Why wasn't Micheál suspected? After all, we're told that Katie's PA had given him Katie's password. And why would, how could, Katie's PA know her password, and why would she share it? Instant dismissal grounds for both. Seriously, this book is so flawed, it's insulting to readers.
Then, and yes, I know it's hard to keep going, and sorry this is a bit out of sequence, but Katie and Kyna go to a former criminal's place of work and Katie gives him her police login details, to enable him to log into her work email and make the faked email disappear. Yes, this guy is a hacker who's out of jail, having promised to not hack again, and by the sounds of it, he's trying to go straight. But, he helps her for the measley sum of Euros 100, and the email is gone. We're meant to believe that Irish police systems are that easily hacked? And, later, despite Micheál and another cop having seen the faked email, which caused Katie's reinstatement to be delayed, i.e. it's being officially investigated, i.e. it's on record, Katie officially denies there ever was such an email. She lies, despite others seeing the email. She's broken the law by requesting the hack of police systems. Yes, again, I kid you not. This is seriously, seriously insulting to readers.
So, that's the tale and those are my issues with it. How it's been approved for publishing is beyond me. No doubt I'll never get another book from this publisher, but ugh, readers need to be aware this book requires so much suspension of disbelief and is badly flawed. And that readers' eyes could be in danger by the amount of eye-rolling that's required.
ARC courtesy of NetGalley aand Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing, for my reading (dis)pleasure.
P.S. there's un-PC stuff like 'The reception area smelled of burned sausages, although she was welcomed warmly enough by a fat friendly woman with a prominent mole on her chin'. Really?
And a cop giving a press conference: 'Micheál looked directly at the camera, and Katie almost felt that he was looking directly and accusingly at her. ‘I’m saying nothing more for the time being,’ he said. ‘I always rely on solid evidence, and never on theories, unlike some officers I could mention. But as soon as I have indisputable proof...' Really?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 10, 2025
„Nawet diabeł go nie chcę” 🔥
współpraca reklamowa @wydawnictwoalbatros
Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w Cork, gdzie miasto zostaje wstrząśnięte serią zamachów bombowych, budzących panikę wśród mieszkańców. Główna bohaterka, detektyw Katie Maguire, staje w obliczu wybuchu, który pozornie wydaje się wynikiem nieszczęśliwego wypadku, ale po przeanalizowaniu przeszłości ofiar, zostaje ujawniony mroczny jego motyw. Ataki są powiązane z grupą Dripsey Dozen, złożoną z potomków byłych bojowników IRA, a ich celem jest zemsta.
Katie, zawieszona w obowiązkach, dostaje szansę na powrót do służby i postanawia za wszelką cenę powstrzymać sprawcę, aby ocalić Cork przed dalszymi zniszczeniami.
Myślę, że nie muszę nikomu przedstawiać tego fenomenalnego autora. Każdy kto kiedykolwiek sięgnął po thriller musiał usłyszeć to nazwisko. A „Nawet diabeł go nie chce” to kolejna świetna powieść Grahama Mastertona z serii o niezastąpionej detektyw Katie Maguire. Autor, który genialnie potrafi budować napięcie i mroczny nastrój, oferuje historię, która już od samego początku trzyma w napięciu.
Mieszkańcy Cork są przerażeni z powodu serii wybuchów bombowych. Autor dobrze oddaje atmosferę strachu i niepewności, pokazując różne etapy śledztwa. Główna bohaterka, Katie, została zawieszona w czynnościach i czeka na przywrócenie do pracy. Jest tak samo zszokowana, gdy w kraju dochodzi do licznych zamachów. Jej powrót to nie tylko walka z czasem, ale też walka ze śmiercią niewinnych ludzi. Katie ma do czynienia z trudną sprawą – zamachy wyglądają na coś więcej niż tylko akt terroru i są związane z przeszłością.
Jej postać jest pełna determinacji, odwagi i zdolności do podejmowania trudnych decyzji sprawiają, że łatwo można się z nią identyfikować.
Autor po raz kolejny udowadnia, że jest mistrzem budowania mrocznego klimatu. Opisy chaosu w mieście i napięcia między bohaterami sprawiły, że miałam wrażenie jakbym była naocznym świadkiem tych wydarzeń.
Autor nie boi się poruszać trudnych tematów, dzięki czemu czytelnik może poczuć się związany z historią.
Przeczytałam kilka poprzednich tomów z tej serii i nie miałam żadnego problemu z powrotem do losów detektyw Katie.
Graham Masterton to autor, którego bardzo mocno cenię. Żywe opisy wydarzeń przypominają mi dlaczego pomiędzy romansami, które zwykle przodują w mojej biblioteczce, lubię czasem sięgnąć po dobry, pełen napięcia thriller, który pochłonie mnie w całości.
„Nawet diabeł go nie chce” to obowiązkowa lektura dla fanów thrillerów jak i samego autora. Graham Masterton stworzył historię, o której nie można przestać myśleć. A Katie Maguire po raz kolejny udowadnia, że jest bohaterką, którą trudno powstrzymać – i którą trudno zapomnieć.
współpraca reklamowa @wydawnictwoalbatros
Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w Cork, gdzie miasto zostaje wstrząśnięte serią zamachów bombowych, budzących panikę wśród mieszkańców. Główna bohaterka, detektyw Katie Maguire, staje w obliczu wybuchu, który pozornie wydaje się wynikiem nieszczęśliwego wypadku, ale po przeanalizowaniu przeszłości ofiar, zostaje ujawniony mroczny jego motyw. Ataki są powiązane z grupą Dripsey Dozen, złożoną z potomków byłych bojowników IRA, a ich celem jest zemsta.
Katie, zawieszona w obowiązkach, dostaje szansę na powrót do służby i postanawia za wszelką cenę powstrzymać sprawcę, aby ocalić Cork przed dalszymi zniszczeniami.
Myślę, że nie muszę nikomu przedstawiać tego fenomenalnego autora. Każdy kto kiedykolwiek sięgnął po thriller musiał usłyszeć to nazwisko. A „Nawet diabeł go nie chce” to kolejna świetna powieść Grahama Mastertona z serii o niezastąpionej detektyw Katie Maguire. Autor, który genialnie potrafi budować napięcie i mroczny nastrój, oferuje historię, która już od samego początku trzyma w napięciu.
Mieszkańcy Cork są przerażeni z powodu serii wybuchów bombowych. Autor dobrze oddaje atmosferę strachu i niepewności, pokazując różne etapy śledztwa. Główna bohaterka, Katie, została zawieszona w czynnościach i czeka na przywrócenie do pracy. Jest tak samo zszokowana, gdy w kraju dochodzi do licznych zamachów. Jej powrót to nie tylko walka z czasem, ale też walka ze śmiercią niewinnych ludzi. Katie ma do czynienia z trudną sprawą – zamachy wyglądają na coś więcej niż tylko akt terroru i są związane z przeszłością.
Jej postać jest pełna determinacji, odwagi i zdolności do podejmowania trudnych decyzji sprawiają, że łatwo można się z nią identyfikować.
Autor po raz kolejny udowadnia, że jest mistrzem budowania mrocznego klimatu. Opisy chaosu w mieście i napięcia między bohaterami sprawiły, że miałam wrażenie jakbym była naocznym świadkiem tych wydarzeń.
Autor nie boi się poruszać trudnych tematów, dzięki czemu czytelnik może poczuć się związany z historią.
Przeczytałam kilka poprzednich tomów z tej serii i nie miałam żadnego problemu z powrotem do losów detektyw Katie.
Graham Masterton to autor, którego bardzo mocno cenię. Żywe opisy wydarzeń przypominają mi dlaczego pomiędzy romansami, które zwykle przodują w mojej biblioteczce, lubię czasem sięgnąć po dobry, pełen napięcia thriller, który pochłonie mnie w całości.
„Nawet diabeł go nie chce” to obowiązkowa lektura dla fanów thrillerów jak i samego autora. Graham Masterton stworzył historię, o której nie można przestać myśleć. A Katie Maguire po raz kolejny udowadnia, że jest bohaterką, którą trudno powstrzymać – i którą trudno zapomnieć.
December 10, 2024
DS Katie Maguire is back. Though she's still on suspension for actions at the end of the last book, Katie finds herself getting involved in two big cases. In the main one, someone is setting off bombs in the residences of descendants of former IRA members who were executed in 1921. Though a temporary replacement has been brought in to fill in for Katie, under his guidance the Garda don't seem to be making any headway as more bombings and more death occur, spurring Katie to work from behind the scenes. Meanwhile, one of Katie's detectives has gone missing and is presumed dead, possibly by suicide after he's found to have emptied his bank accounts. Katie again investigates on her own, bringing in a few loyal detectives to help, and uncovers a shocking scheme.
As it has been throughout this series, Masterton's writing is at its sharpest. Though the last book was marketed as the final one in the series, this one picks up right where the last one left off bringing two captivating crime plots. While it was necessary for Katie to set investigations in motion despite being on suspension and therefore had to handle things surreptitiously, she does make some surprisingly bad and reckless decisions that come back to bite her and others. Though there were a few hinky elements to the story, it was still very satisfying to see Katie Maguire back in action, and likely to continue her adventures even further.
As it has been throughout this series, Masterton's writing is at its sharpest. Though the last book was marketed as the final one in the series, this one picks up right where the last one left off bringing two captivating crime plots. While it was necessary for Katie to set investigations in motion despite being on suspension and therefore had to handle things surreptitiously, she does make some surprisingly bad and reckless decisions that come back to bite her and others. Though there were a few hinky elements to the story, it was still very satisfying to see Katie Maguire back in action, and likely to continue her adventures even further.
April 4, 2025
" [...] Babcia zawsze jej mówiła, że wrony siwe są symbolem zmiany albo przemiany, ale mogą również zapowiadać nieszczęście lub śmierć, zwłaszcza jeśli zbierają się w większych grupach. [...]"
Czy są osoby, które nie znają twórczości Grahama Mastertona? Chyba takich nie ma. Ja swoją przygodę z jego powieściami zaczęłam w liceum. Podobają mi się stworzone przez niego historie. Serię z Katie Maguire znam dopiero od poprzedniego tomu, czyli "Do ostatniej kropli krwi". Z przyjemnością sięgnęłam po dwunasty tom pod tytułem "Nawet diabeł go nie chce". Czyż tak nazwana powieść nie brzmi złowieszczo?
Tutaj otrzymałam mnóstwo emocji. Nie ukrywam, że pojawiły się również łzy.
Graham Masterton w idealny sposób przedstawił nam długo wyczekiwaną zemstę. Tutaj miałam do czynienia z prawdziwymi bombami, które niestety wybuchały. Bałam się, że nasza pani nadkomisarz może ucierpieć, bo za bardzo drążyła ten temat. Jaką cenę przyjdzie jej za to zapłacić? Kto stoi za perfidnymi zamachami? Czy IRA po wielu latach ponownie uderza i sieje postrach wśród mieszkańców? Kto powinien czuć się zagrożony? Warto dotrwać do końca.
Uwielbiam, jak Graham Masterton buduje napięcie i przedstawia nam swoją wymyśloną fabułę. Podobały mi się wątki obyczajowe związane z życiem Katie Maguire. Jestem całym sercem za tą bohaterką. Mimo problemów powróciła i nie zamierza opuszczać swojego stanowiska.
Thriller "Nawet diabeł go nie chce" Grahama Mastertona wciągnęłam jak bułkę z masełkiem. Nie mogłam oderwać się od czytania. To było takie dobre.
Z przyjemnością przeczytam wcześniejsze powieści z Katie Maguire.
Jeżeli jeszcze nie znacie twórczość Grahama Mastertona, to śmiało po nią sięgnijcie. Miłośnicy thrillerów nie oderwą się od czytania.
Czy są osoby, które nie znają twórczości Grahama Mastertona? Chyba takich nie ma. Ja swoją przygodę z jego powieściami zaczęłam w liceum. Podobają mi się stworzone przez niego historie. Serię z Katie Maguire znam dopiero od poprzedniego tomu, czyli "Do ostatniej kropli krwi". Z przyjemnością sięgnęłam po dwunasty tom pod tytułem "Nawet diabeł go nie chce". Czyż tak nazwana powieść nie brzmi złowieszczo?
Tutaj otrzymałam mnóstwo emocji. Nie ukrywam, że pojawiły się również łzy.
Graham Masterton w idealny sposób przedstawił nam długo wyczekiwaną zemstę. Tutaj miałam do czynienia z prawdziwymi bombami, które niestety wybuchały. Bałam się, że nasza pani nadkomisarz może ucierpieć, bo za bardzo drążyła ten temat. Jaką cenę przyjdzie jej za to zapłacić? Kto stoi za perfidnymi zamachami? Czy IRA po wielu latach ponownie uderza i sieje postrach wśród mieszkańców? Kto powinien czuć się zagrożony? Warto dotrwać do końca.
Uwielbiam, jak Graham Masterton buduje napięcie i przedstawia nam swoją wymyśloną fabułę. Podobały mi się wątki obyczajowe związane z życiem Katie Maguire. Jestem całym sercem za tą bohaterką. Mimo problemów powróciła i nie zamierza opuszczać swojego stanowiska.
Thriller "Nawet diabeł go nie chce" Grahama Mastertona wciągnęłam jak bułkę z masełkiem. Nie mogłam oderwać się od czytania. To było takie dobre.
Z przyjemnością przeczytam wcześniejsze powieści z Katie Maguire.
Jeżeli jeszcze nie znacie twórczość Grahama Mastertona, to śmiało po nią sięgnijcie. Miłośnicy thrillerów nie oderwą się od czytania.
May 23, 2025
Katie Maguire is serving a suspension following a shooting but of course she can't stay out of things even though there is someone filling in for her and she shouldn't be at the station. So when there is a series of explosions she steps up to offer her advice. However, her replacement rejects it totally. But that doesn't stop Katie.
At the same time she is developing a strong relationship with a visiting judge and also helping Kyna who attempted to kill herself and is in a hospital. It all makes for a hectic life. But that is normal for Katie.
Like most books in this series there is a high body count, over 50, and a lot of them met a gruesome end. It's to be expected and just adds to the story. Katie Maguire doesn't have a happy life as she is always surrounded by death and misery but she perseveres. There are some things about this that annoyed me like the victims who knew they were the target of a bomber but didn't run away when someone wanted to give them a box. Really, they should have just slammed the door and run but they were too stupid to do anything but argue. That was kind of illogical. There is an annoying level of frustration some of the things that happen but still entertaining.
At the same time she is developing a strong relationship with a visiting judge and also helping Kyna who attempted to kill herself and is in a hospital. It all makes for a hectic life. But that is normal for Katie.
Like most books in this series there is a high body count, over 50, and a lot of them met a gruesome end. It's to be expected and just adds to the story. Katie Maguire doesn't have a happy life as she is always surrounded by death and misery but she perseveres. There are some things about this that annoyed me like the victims who knew they were the target of a bomber but didn't run away when someone wanted to give them a box. Really, they should have just slammed the door and run but they were too stupid to do anything but argue. That was kind of illogical. There is an annoying level of frustration some of the things that happen but still entertaining.
September 22, 2024
"Pay Back the Devil' by Graham Masterton is the twelfth instalment of his DS Katie Maguire series but can be read as a stand alone.
DS Maguire is currently suspended pending outcome of an investigation, but that does not stop her taking an action involvement in the case of the apparent bombings of descendants to the Dripsey Dozen. Someone appears out for revenge but the lead in the investigation does not want to listen to DS Maguire.
This book immediately pulls you into the investigation into these gruesome crimes and the characters are visual and you want to keep reading to find out what happens to the characters.
DS Katie Maguire is a great character and you can see why the series has been going on for so long.
The detail is exact and the details f the bombings are quite gruesome so it is not for the light hearted.
There are other plots running as well as the main plot but this adds to the tension in the book and supplement the main story well.
A definite page turner and highly recommended.
Thanks to the author and publisher for allowing me to read an advance copy of this book.
DS Maguire is currently suspended pending outcome of an investigation, but that does not stop her taking an action involvement in the case of the apparent bombings of descendants to the Dripsey Dozen. Someone appears out for revenge but the lead in the investigation does not want to listen to DS Maguire.
This book immediately pulls you into the investigation into these gruesome crimes and the characters are visual and you want to keep reading to find out what happens to the characters.
DS Katie Maguire is a great character and you can see why the series has been going on for so long.
The detail is exact and the details f the bombings are quite gruesome so it is not for the light hearted.
There are other plots running as well as the main plot but this adds to the tension in the book and supplement the main story well.
A definite page turner and highly recommended.
Thanks to the author and publisher for allowing me to read an advance copy of this book.
August 14, 2024
Katie Maguire is back with a bang - quite literally! Anyone who has read any of the previous eleven books will know that this author doesn’t hold back on the gore and violence, with this new, and eagerly awaited instalment being no different. That said, the author writes these parts succinctly, he describes the devastation and then moves on with the tale. This book starts with Katie being investigated following the outcome of her last case, and therefore suspended from active duty, and this is the case for a large portion of the book. Regardless of her suspension, Katie continues to be involved in police investigations, albeit from the outskirts. A lot of things happen in Cork whilst she is on suspension, and I found at times, the pace slowed right down, so I was keen for her to be reinstated. Once this happens, the pace picks back up, and the plot twists come quickly.
October 15, 2024
Devoured this!
Jumping right in on the action, Graham knows how to write a captivating novel! The blurb is what originally got me hooked and wanting to read this novel, as well as its beautiful cover and title that easily intrigues the reader, this author delivered on everything promised in the short synopsis. I enjoyed how much action we got in this book, there's never a dull moment and you're constantly on the edge of your seat waiting to see what the next chapter is going to bring.
Truly gripping, I was unable to put this down for even a second, I read this in under a day and when I put it down I was still processing this amazing read. I really enjoyed DS Katie Maguire as a character, she was easy to connect to as a reader and really keeps you interested while reading. This is definitely a must read especially if you like thrillers and a little bit of gore.
Jumping right in on the action, Graham knows how to write a captivating novel! The blurb is what originally got me hooked and wanting to read this novel, as well as its beautiful cover and title that easily intrigues the reader, this author delivered on everything promised in the short synopsis. I enjoyed how much action we got in this book, there's never a dull moment and you're constantly on the edge of your seat waiting to see what the next chapter is going to bring.
Truly gripping, I was unable to put this down for even a second, I read this in under a day and when I put it down I was still processing this amazing read. I really enjoyed DS Katie Maguire as a character, she was easy to connect to as a reader and really keeps you interested while reading. This is definitely a must read especially if you like thrillers and a little bit of gore.
December 29, 2024
Katie Maguire is bored. She has been suspended whilst investigation of her actions in a previous case. It is only a matter of time but she is champing at the bit. When a couple die when their house blows up, a gas leak is suspected but when another one happens shortly after Katie has her suspicions that this is a well planned revenge attack. However the temporary DI that has taken her place refuses to do anything about her ideas. He is intent on following the (scanty) evidence.
It's a while since I read a Katie Maguire book, but I soon remembered why I liked them. The descriptions are graphic. the characters are varied & the story is well paced if a little bit overlong. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book. I hope it won't be too long before we meet Katie again.
It's a while since I read a Katie Maguire book, but I soon remembered why I liked them. The descriptions are graphic. the characters are varied & the story is well paced if a little bit overlong. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book. I hope it won't be too long before we meet Katie again.
October 16, 2024
Payback the Devil
If you’re a fan of crime thrillers, then this one right here is the one for you!
Kate McGuire is a detective who is currently under investigation and suspended. But explosions start going off in the city… Kate cannot stand on the sidelines while someone is out blowing up the city. My goodness the author Graham Masterson can write some graphic descriptions, the blood and gore, was so realistic.
This one grabs onto you, reels you in, and won’t let you go. Turns out this is book 12 in the series. How did I not know about the series until now. Definitely need to go back and read the others. This one can obviously be read as a standalone so don’t worry about reading the other books first.
If you’re a fan of crime thrillers, then this one right here is the one for you!
Kate McGuire is a detective who is currently under investigation and suspended. But explosions start going off in the city… Kate cannot stand on the sidelines while someone is out blowing up the city. My goodness the author Graham Masterson can write some graphic descriptions, the blood and gore, was so realistic.
This one grabs onto you, reels you in, and won’t let you go. Turns out this is book 12 in the series. How did I not know about the series until now. Definitely need to go back and read the others. This one can obviously be read as a standalone so don’t worry about reading the other books first.
December 10, 2024
Latest, and very brutal, thriller in the Katie Maguire series.
People in Cork are being murdered by explosive devices sent to their homes. The first incident is thought to be a possible gas leak, but when the police start to investigate they discover that the first victims, and the subsequent ones are all members of a group descended from 5 IRA soldiers executed in 1921. The group, known as the Dripsey Dozen, are being systematically slaughtered, and even after being moved by the police to 'safe' houses they are tracked down and killed.
Although suspended from duty, Katie mistrusts the officer in charge of the investigation and carries on with her own enquiries in a desperate bid to outwit the killer.
People in Cork are being murdered by explosive devices sent to their homes. The first incident is thought to be a possible gas leak, but when the police start to investigate they discover that the first victims, and the subsequent ones are all members of a group descended from 5 IRA soldiers executed in 1921. The group, known as the Dripsey Dozen, are being systematically slaughtered, and even after being moved by the police to 'safe' houses they are tracked down and killed.
Although suspended from duty, Katie mistrusts the officer in charge of the investigation and carries on with her own enquiries in a desperate bid to outwit the killer.
April 19, 2025
I've been reading Graham Masterton novels since the 1970s; horror, thrillers and lately the entire Katie Maguire series. As well as his particularly gruesome horrors, Masterton has also edited Penthouse, and the evidence of both experiences is clear to see in the Maguire books, which certainly aren't for the faint-hearted or those who take offence easily. Pay Back The Devil has all the usual ingredients; crime, mystery, shootings, explosions, murders, sex, and crows. Maguire has little time for the rules, following her own agenda and caring little for what the authorities might think. As always, it makes for an entertaining tale, although as I was listening to it on my portable speaker, I had to be careful of who was in earshot!
October 10, 2024
Here is my review for Pay Back The Devil by Graham Masterton
This was a fantastic read and I really loved reading it. The storyline was brilliant, well planned and thought out. DS Katie Maguire is back in this story although she is suspended and not meant to be working any cases. She gets herself embroiled in the bombing of a house in inner-city Cork which sends waves of shock through the community. Katie finds out the names of the occupants that lived there and says they were part of the Dripsey Dozen. Before that scene is even investigated properly, there is another bomb blast at a shop this time, killing three people and the shop owner, again Katie goes to the scene. She finds out the name and reckons the person is part of the Dripsey Dozen but the DS covering for her won’t listen to her and is working to his own plan and is investigating them as separate incidents. This was a wonderful story which dragged me right from the start and didn’t let me go until the end of the book, I just couldn’t put it down. Graham Masterton is a brilliant crime writer and I’m greatly invested in the character of Katie Macguire. She’s a strong character, who knows her own mind and can look after herself plus she has two gorgeous dogs that can read her moods and that she loves to bits.
Blurb :
YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN...
KATIE MAGUIRE IS BACK.
A DEADLY CAMPAIGN
An explosion in a house in inner-city Cork sends shock waves through the community. Two people are killed in the blast and, at first, their deaths are believed to be the tragic result of a gas leak - but the victims' pasts suggest otherwise.
A HISTORY OF TERROR
The target is clear: the Dripsey Dozen, a group created by descendants of five local IRA soldiers who were executed for their crimes in 1921.
A POLICE CONSPIRACY
Despite the surviving members of the Dozen being relocated to safe houses, the bombing continues. Which means a leak at Anglesea Street Garda station is supplying confidential information to this new terrorist.
This is suspended officer DS KATIE MAGUIRE's chance to get back on the force – and stop a traitor from burning Cork to the ground...
This was a fantastic read and I really loved reading it. The storyline was brilliant, well planned and thought out. DS Katie Maguire is back in this story although she is suspended and not meant to be working any cases. She gets herself embroiled in the bombing of a house in inner-city Cork which sends waves of shock through the community. Katie finds out the names of the occupants that lived there and says they were part of the Dripsey Dozen. Before that scene is even investigated properly, there is another bomb blast at a shop this time, killing three people and the shop owner, again Katie goes to the scene. She finds out the name and reckons the person is part of the Dripsey Dozen but the DS covering for her won’t listen to her and is working to his own plan and is investigating them as separate incidents. This was a wonderful story which dragged me right from the start and didn’t let me go until the end of the book, I just couldn’t put it down. Graham Masterton is a brilliant crime writer and I’m greatly invested in the character of Katie Macguire. She’s a strong character, who knows her own mind and can look after herself plus she has two gorgeous dogs that can read her moods and that she loves to bits.
Blurb :
YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN...
KATIE MAGUIRE IS BACK.
A DEADLY CAMPAIGN
An explosion in a house in inner-city Cork sends shock waves through the community. Two people are killed in the blast and, at first, their deaths are believed to be the tragic result of a gas leak - but the victims' pasts suggest otherwise.
A HISTORY OF TERROR
The target is clear: the Dripsey Dozen, a group created by descendants of five local IRA soldiers who were executed for their crimes in 1921.
A POLICE CONSPIRACY
Despite the surviving members of the Dozen being relocated to safe houses, the bombing continues. Which means a leak at Anglesea Street Garda station is supplying confidential information to this new terrorist.
This is suspended officer DS KATIE MAGUIRE's chance to get back on the force – and stop a traitor from burning Cork to the ground...
September 5, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyed
This was a great read. I haven't read a Graham Masterton in a good few years and boy have I been missing out. I'd forgotten just how brilliant his books are. This book is not his horror but is just as gruesome . Katie Maguire a detective in the Irish police, has a brutal case but she has to work around so many complications as well as deal with matters at home. The characters are amazing and I loved the involvement of the dogs. Brutal, harsh, exciting and bloody, a story that's s o compelling and fascinating you can't put it down. You won't want to miss out. Recommended to anyone whom enjoys a good read!
This was a great read. I haven't read a Graham Masterton in a good few years and boy have I been missing out. I'd forgotten just how brilliant his books are. This book is not his horror but is just as gruesome . Katie Maguire a detective in the Irish police, has a brutal case but she has to work around so many complications as well as deal with matters at home. The characters are amazing and I loved the involvement of the dogs. Brutal, harsh, exciting and bloody, a story that's s o compelling and fascinating you can't put it down. You won't want to miss out. Recommended to anyone whom enjoys a good read!
October 19, 2024
This book is an absolute rollercoaster of a story, packed with unexpected twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat. It kicks off with what seems like a simple gas explosion in Cork, but as the plot unfolds, it's revealed to be a terror-related event. The suspicion of a police force leak The author crafted a gripping police novel that you won't be able to put down. It was somewhat repetitive and it took me a while to read because of the Irish expressions that I needed to look up before continuing with the book. But general was a very solid read
December 30, 2025
Pay Back the Devil by Graham Masterton is a dark, fast-paced crime thriller that delivers high tension and relentless momentum. Set against the troubled history of Cork, the story weaves modern terrorism, political legacy, and police corruption into a gripping investigation. Katie Maguire returns as a tough, driven protagonist fighting both a deadly conspiracy and her own professional exile. Gritty, explosive, and emotionally charged, this installment will satisfy long-time fans and crime readers who enjoy hard-edged, high-stakes mysteries.
January 2, 2025
I love Graham Masterton writing style, he never shy's away from tough subjects and always has a engage plot tp sink you teeth into. There are a couple of books I have missed in this series and while I don't think it hindered me in away from enjoying the other, I do feel they are better read in order for the characters. I look forward to see what the next book will be from this author
January 19, 2025
After a considerable absence Katie Maguire returns.
The last installment I thought closed the series neatly but a welcome return.
The horror aspect in all the books is uneccesary but its good story telling and the main characters are vividly portrayed.
The last installment I thought closed the series neatly but a welcome return.
The horror aspect in all the books is uneccesary but its good story telling and the main characters are vividly portrayed.
February 2, 2025
So glad to be back with Katie Maguire. Really enjoyed the read, although there are one or two other Katie Maguire books that I enjoyed more, now looking forward to the next one lol, like to keep Graham busy.
October 15, 2024
the very best books I have read.
I have read aimi the Katie Maguire books . Each one is completely different. Exiting, intriguing, dark and horrific at times.
I have read aimi the Katie Maguire books . Each one is completely different. Exiting, intriguing, dark and horrific at times.
October 22, 2024
Good read
This was another very good book from start to finish most of the time not wanting to put it down I loved reading this series and look forward to the next instalment
This was another very good book from start to finish most of the time not wanting to put it down I loved reading this series and look forward to the next instalment
October 23, 2024
Pay back the Devil
Well Mr Masterton I have waited a long time for another Katie Maguire book and I have not been disappointed please don't make me wait years for another
Well Mr Masterton I have waited a long time for another Katie Maguire book and I have not been disappointed please don't make me wait years for another
November 29, 2024
An absolutely brilliant book. Typical of Graham. Can’t wait for the next one.
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