Book description
During a winter blizzard a small girl is found wandering half-naked at
the edge of an ancient woodland. Her hands are covered in blood, but it
is not her own. Unwilling or unable to speak, the only person she seems
to trust is the young officer who rescued her, Detective Sergeant Lucy
Black. DS Black is baffled to find herself suddenly transferred from a
high-profile case involving the kidnapping of a prominent businessman's
teenage daughter, to the newly formed Public Protection Unit. Meanwhile,
she has her own problems: caring for her Alzheimer's-stricken father;
and avoiding conflict with her surly Assistant Chief Constable - who
also happens to be her mother. As she struggles to identify the
unclaimed child, Lucy begins to realise that this case and the
kidnapping may be linked - by events that occurred during the blackest
days of the country's recent history, events that also defined her own
girlhood. Little Girl Lost is a devastating page-turner about
corruption, greed and vengeance, and a father's love for his daughter.
Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1974, and
teaches English at St Columb's College, Derry. He lives near the Irish
borderlands with his wife and their four children.
