The Songbird Girls - Richard Jay Parker

The Songbird Girls (Tom Fabian #2) – Richard Jay Parker

Her eyes were closed. From a distance the blood around her neck might have looked like a necklace, but up close her body told a different tale. She had been murdered. A tiny songbird lay beside her, its neck broken…

Detective Tom Fabian’s past is catching up with him. It has been years since the most famous case of his career – when his evidence put infamous serial killer Christopher Wisher behind bars forever. But when Wisher summons a reluctant Fabian to his prison cell to hand over a diary, he realises that Wisher’s twisted games are far from over.

Shortly after Fabian’s visit, Wisher is found dead in his cell. And a few days later, the police find a woman’s body bearing Wisher’s signature, a dead songbird. But the police never released this detail to the public … so who has Wisher been talking to?

Fabian is desperate to find the killer before another innocent life is taken. But as more bodies turn up, Fabian begins to realise that Wisher may have handed him the clues before he died. Is the twisted serial killer still pulling the strings from beyond the grave…?

My Review of The Songbird Girls

I had such high hopes for this one! I really enjoyed Never Say Goodbye and was looking forward to the next riveting episode of the Tom Fabian series… With this beautiful cover I was expecting another solidly good thriller. Unfortunately though – it didn’t do that much for me.

And so we begin this tale three years following the events of the first novel. The killer was caught and imprisoned, and Tom… Well, not much has changed with Tom to be honest. In fact his life is pretty well boring as hell. So EXCITEMENT!!! He is asked by the killer to go and visit him in prison. Yes! The storyline is looking up! He gives him a diary, and then kills himself. The killer that is, not Tom… Although I am not sure which would have been more exciting… Anyway, people start dying just like the first time. WOW There must be a copycat!!! Cue extremely boring stuff happening to Tom, interviewing about 10000000 people, asking them the same questions and making them all out to be bad guys and rubbing them up the wrong way. Oh and Tom’s daughter is in college now. But nothing bad can happen to her over there… Right?

What a let down. I had this sitting on my kindle for so long, and FINALLY get a chance to read it. WHAT THE HELL??? It just lacked… So much…. Where is the character development?? What on earth happened to Tom? What has changed in the last 3 years? Absolutely NOTHING!

I thought the ending was such a cop out. Perhaps this one was meant to be Tom Fabian 1.5? A teaser until the next solid read? ??? ???

What did I think of The Songbird Girls?

The last read was a SOLID 4 stars for me. This one barely scraps through to get 3. And that is generous because of the decent writing and gorgeous cover!

(2.8 / 5)