The story begins with DCI Jonah Sheens enjoying the beautiful weather (and a drink) in the pub's beer garden with his baby daughter Milly, waiting for Jonah’s domestic partner, Michelle to arrive so they can do a child handover. In this rare moment of quiet enjoyment, a young teenage girl wanders onto the grounds and is heading in their direction. With striking features and flaming red hair, she's beautiful; but it's not those attributes which draws everyone's attention. The young teenage girl stumbling into the yard is covered in blood.

The story is built out in a very compelling way. As the Reader you get entire chapters of Keely telling their story from the beginning.Lodge lives in Cambridge with her son. [1] Bibliography [ edit ] DCI Jonah Sheens series [3] [ edit ] Gytha Lodge is a playwright, novelist and writer for Video games and screen, best known for the DCI Jonah Sheens series of novels. [1] Education [ edit ] Working the cold case opens a Pandora’s box of new memories, fresh information, and painful revelations for Jonah, and reopens old wounds for Aurora’s family and the teens who were present when she disappeared. Old and new suspects become targets of the investigation, while Jonah and Juliette try to focus on solving this case once and for all, despite their own personal issues. Will Jonah finally solve the case that has haunted him for thirty years?

Thank you so much to the publisher, Random House, for providing me with a copy of this book to read and review.When Jonah races to help, the girl insists she's fine. Then she smiles. It's her sister he needs to worry about. Keely and her sister, Nina, disappeared from a children's home a week ago. Now Keely is here--but Nina's still missing. Jonah is sure Keely knows where her sister is--but before she tells him anything, she insists, he has to listen to her story from the beginning. I loved the cold case trope, one of my favorites in crime fiction, and I’m usually always up for a good British police procedural. My experience with pure procedural's is that they are often fairly straightforward, without too many bells and whistles. This book does follow that format, so don't expect much flair. Full of corkscrew twists and subtle turns, this...novel confirms Lodge as a gifted writer * Daily Mail * Trying to keep his past private, DCI Sheens and a great cast of fellow officers, slowly unravel what happened to poor Aurora on that night long ago. Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for an advance copy of Little Sister, the latest police procedural/ psychological thriller by Gytha Lodge. Having read all the previous books featuring DCI Jonah Sheens and his dedicated team, I have admired the details of the effort put forth in a solid police investigation: their interviews, the search for clues to determine the perpetrator and motivation, the boredom and the excitement of establishing proof, and the exhaustive work of a cooperative and determined police team.