Blood Sisters is book 5 in the Katie Maguire series. I haven't previous read any books in this series, but it was no problem getting into the story and I never felt confused with past events since everything was explained well during the book.DS Katie Maguire must catch a killer that torture and kill nuns. The question is why are the nuns killed, is is because of something in the past. Then a jawbone of a child is found in the garden of the convent. Could the finding have anything to do with the...

This book follows the murders of a group of nuns from the same convent as an act of revenge from a woman who was taken in by the convent as a young 15 year old girl and pregnant, and thus was treated very poorly along with other young expecting mothers and their children. Each nun dies a similar way as their saints whom they look up to and worship. Only the convent has a lot more to it when a fifty year old secret has been revealed. It’s one of those crimes committed by religious groups where it...

I love Katie Maguire. The books are clever and original. I only wish Mr Masterton could write faster.

Katie Maguire is by no means my favourite of Masterton's characters - I feel like I could give her a right good shake at times, she is a bit of a mess let's be honest - & while I prefer his horror tales I still love this crime series. I love Masterton's style, straight into the story, no messing about & some good horrific murders....nuns being murdered in a fashion that imitates the death of their favourite Saint. Gruesome, cruel yet inventive Masterton delivered again for me, so another 5 stars...

Blood Sisters – Graham Masterton. 4 starsA little irritating at timesThis is the fifth in the Katie Maguire series. Many people will have read all the stories of the Irish Detective Superintendent so will be familiar with the set up. Possibly as I am not a lover of the horror genre I have not previously read any Graham Masterton books but shall look out for them in future. It’s understandable that many dislike reading a series of books in the wrong order although this is a stand alone stor...

Two mass murders, under-age prostitution, the slaughter of race horses, and police corruption are being investigated by Kate Maguire and her team at the Garda in Cork, Ireland. As the story unfolds the disparate events coalesce and a terror-filled picture emerges. A glossary explaining Irish jargon would have been helpful. No graphic sex or violence

I give this novel 3.5 stars. I've come to realise that you need to firmly park your sense of reality at the front door before entering one of Graham Masterton's novels to enjoy it. Exceptionally well written, however, the plot is more than a bit preposterous - I mean .... a flying, eviscerated nun??? You can certainly see the author's background in the horror genre.I don't know whether I have become a bit disillusioned with the Katie Maguire series - I've found that the novels do follow a set fo...

Over the last month, I have listened to/read the Katie Maguire series in publication order and Blood Sisters, book 5, will have been my last one for a while, I think.Blood Sisters continues from where Taken for Dead left off. Katie is still dealing with the fallout from previous cases and her private life is anything but settled. John is back, but Katie avoids telling him about her pregnancy. Professionally, she is investigating the horrific deaths of 23 horses as well as the murder of a nun.The...

I have a real problem with Katie Maguire, for a high ranking police officer she is so tangled and confused.....She love’s John? or does she? John loves her? or does he? John may want to live with her in Ireland or may want to move to San Francisco and indulge his pastime within a global pharmaceutical empire? He moves to San Francisco and then moves back! Katie is pregnant but the baby is not John’s rather her next door neighbour who she became intimate with when John decided to go Stateside.......

I was drawn straight into the action with a murder (the nun) and a mystery (the skull). Katie is a well rounded character. I liked her a lot as a person, though she doesn’t always seem to have the best judgement, and I found the descriptions of what it is like for her to be a woman in the Irish Garda interesting – I can’t believe it is as sexist in real life as Masterton makes out but if it is it’s shocking that this is the case in this day and age!I would like to see other characters filled out...

Blood sisters by Graham Masterton.In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun lies dead. She has been suffocated. It looks like a mercy-killing - until another sister from the same convent is found viciously murdered, floating in the Glashaboy river.The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would anyone want to kill them? But then a child's skull is unearthed in the garden of the nuns' convent, and DS Katie Maguire discovers a fifty year old secret that just might lead her t...

If you need the plot, read elsewhere, everyone else already did it. I will assume you are already familiar with the series.The pain factor on this one is quite high, almost as high as the original Katie novel, 'A Terrible Beauty.' Not quite that bad, but close, and this has some of Masterton's most brutal torture sequences. The story itself is good and well written, as usual. What brings it down is it feels like Masterton is starting to let what I imagine his own personal views to intrude on his...

DS Katie Maguire is a complicated woman. Being a female in the Guarda brings its own set of problems, but she seems to be handling that quite well. She is trusted and respected. It's her personal life that would confuse most people. She has a lover, who has left her once and then come back. And while he was gone, she had a one night stand with a neighbor (now deceased) and is pregnant by him. And then there's that attraction to another woman .. one of her colleagues.So while her personal life is...

The arcing storylines across the series about senior Garda corruption and ruthless sex worker boss Michael Gerrety move forwards. At the end of the previous book, Katie thought she had strong evidence against her immediate boss, Bryan Molloy. At the start of this book, Katie is being visited by officers from the complaints department because Molloy has made counter claims that she has falsified the evidence and been bullying him. As a key witness has been found dead and another has flipped her s...

Latest in the Katie Maguire series - two allied plots plus a lot going on in Katie's personal life. Good police procedural but somehow not quite driving the narrative for me, especially in the first half

This is book #5 in the Katie Maguire series and it will help to have read the previous stories, but is by no means essential as major events are recapped. She is an Irish Detective Superintendent whose character and personality I really admire. A kickass lady who won't put up with anything, has had to fight to be respected in a male-dominated career, but who isn't afraid to show her fragile side as well. I would describe this series as "character driven crime", with more time being spent on Kati...

I always claim I cut my horror teeth with “that other author” but Graham Masterton and his Manitou were right there in the mix. With that being said it does not surprise me that his crime novel had some of the more “creative” murders (is it even okay to say that?) I have come across in quite some time (maybe ever). I’ve never read one of Graham Masterton’s crime novels before so it seems rather unusual to start with the 5th book in the Katie Maguire series but I enjoyed the book and had no probl...

Review: BLOOD SISTERS by Graham MastertonRelease: Feb. 1 2016The newest engrossing mystery in the Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire of Cork, Ireland, series, has Katie firmly on the horns of a monstrous dilemma in her personal life, a situation that she will find reflected in one of her newest cases--actually multiple cases, both present and past, all focused on the same Irish convent, Bon Saveurs. As someone--or more than one--brutally murder aged retired nuns, always showcasing each killi...

A disappointing novel from one of my favourite authors. I hope this series improves

Alright, so I wished for this book on NetGalley and I was so happy when I was granted the book. I read some of Masterton's work when I was younger, and I remember enjoying what I did read, so to find new stuff was pretty cool. However, things didn't go quite as I had planned or hoped. I was not a fan of the writing style at all. It annoyed me endlessly. Then there was the issue of character naming. Just call the characters on their surnames or their names, not their entire title, name, surname a...