Brodie Farrell
Created by Jo Bannister

BRODIE FARRELL has the seemingly-obligatory "cute" first name for a female detective and a growing rep for finding things and people. In fact, she's set out her shingle for her small business "Looking for Something?" in the small seaside town of Dimmock. But there's nothing cute about some of the harrowing violence and pain that Brodie often faces in the course of -- and the result of -- her investigations.

Jo Bannister is a much-respected journalist and newspaper editor in Northern Ireland, and the author of three other popular mystery series, including one featuring an English doctor and and her cop husband, one with a male/female team of British cops and one featuring an American photojournalist.

UNDER OATH

• "... even though a fair suspension of disbelief is required as the story zigs and zags its way to several levels of denouement, there's no question that quitting before the end is next to impossible. (Echoes of Lies is) simply one of those books that keeps upending your expectations and making you demand to know how it's all going to come out in the end."
  (Otto Penzler)

NOVELS

• Echoes of Lies (2001). Buy this book
• True Witness (2002). Buy this book
• Reflections (2003) . Buy this book