Review of The Trafficking Murders

Novela book · Post by **Novela book** » 10 Oct 2021, 02:34

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Trafficking Murders" by Brian O'Hare.]

4 out of 4 stars

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On a cold night, a body of a young girl has been found lying outside someone’s house. The PSNI got alerted for the crime, the first suspicion went to the person whose garden this scenario took place. Chief Inspector, Jim Sheehan, and his capable team of inspectors took over the case, and this initiated the beginning of an investigation that opened the door to the shadowy schemes of the sex trafficking and human trafficking world. A system where poor young girls and boys are lured into the confinement of a cruel and horrific life, in the disguise of a better one. As they went further into solving the case, the more twisted it got and everyone seemed like a suspect. Were they able to identify the real culprit? Were they able to save all the victims in this case? or there was something else in store all along?

Murders, sex trafficking, a girl missing, university professors dying, a rare poison made from pufferfish, the Chinese community and the Queen's University in Belfast, all these packed together in a mind-racing, thrilling, and suspenseful plot inside a novel called The Trafficking Murders by Brian O’Hare. The book has the incorporation of true societal happenings around the world, turned into a fictional work, which was insightful and eye-opening. Its been shown that How innocent young people are fooled into this modern slavery world, and How their weakness is taken advantage of.

The book portrayed two different stories of victims related to sex slavery. Part of it surrounded Alina, a girl living in Romania with her poor parents, who gets a chance for a better life in Ireland. Which ended in her being on a cargo ship, where she was being raped and beaten to be a sex slave. Another part was of a girl from China,Lin Hui, a Chinese from Shenzhen university, who came to Ireland as a scholarship student and gets lured into the escort service business for the highly influential people.

The book was written by O'hare in a simple language that was easy to understand, with a good flow and rhythmic narration. I liked the well-explained characters at the start of the book, that allowed me to identify them later in the story. I enjoyed the interactions between the characters, Doctor Campbell and Chief Sheehan, mainly because it was full of humour and also had some dose of medical knowledge. I loved how every character was given justifiable screen space, it made me connect to them on a deeper level.

My favourite part was the interrogation between the Chinese man named Huang by Chief Sheehan. I liked how clever and confident he was with his words towards the suspect, and how Sheehan made him submit to him. I did not dislike anything in this book. Everything was well orchestrated and came to a satisfying end. There was no error that I found in the text, it's a well-edited book.

I would like to award this wonderful and suspensive book a 4 out of 4 stars. Highly recommend it to people above 16, for the knowledge of how sex trafficking takes place. Also, for mystery seekers and those who like detective oriented stories. As I picked this book as a lover of crime, mystery, thriller, and suspense stories, I am sure people with the same taste would not be disappointed.

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The Trafficking Murders
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