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Evil lurks at every turn...
Arwel Thomas was a bright and beautiful boy.
But when he’s found dead and abused on the railway near Bangor, only a handful of people seem to care.
Social services, into whose care Arwel had been placed, seem to regard his death as unimportant — possibly even convenient.
After all, who will miss another young delinquent?
As DCI McKenna and his team investigate, they examine Arwel’s time at Blodwel Children’s Home.
It soon becomes increasingly clear that their attention has not come a moment too soon.
The stench of corruption and evil at Blodwel is palpable.
As the investigation deepens, the police uncover some astonishing links between Arwel, Blodwel and the rich and poor of the local community.
The severity of the situation is all but confirmed when a second Blodwel boy dies, and yet another vanishes.
With the death count rising, the police begin to question the role of family and friends in the events that led to Arwel’s death, and the mysterious events that have followed.
Is Arwel’s premature death the fault of just one person, or several?
Have his parents failed him? The community? The Council?
Or is the person who killed him the only one to blame?
Set against the stark beauty of north Wales, In Guilty Night is a gritty but rewarding read, which will leave the reader pondering many important questions and ideas, long after the mystery at its heart is solved.
Praise for Alison Taylor
‘Impressive … disturbingly good’ — Marcel Berlins in The Times
Alison Taylor has lived in North Wales for many years. She held senior childcare posts with the former Gwynedd County Council. She has been instrumental in exposing institutional child abuse, and in 1996 won the Campaign for Freedom of Information Award in this area. Her interests include classical and baroque music, art and writing. Her other books include Unsafe Convictions and The House of Women.
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In Guilty Night edition by Alison Taylor Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I have read and enjoyed mrs Taylor's second book. It was good to read more about the main characters, the policemen with out a clue, and the town's people who are naturally reticent and believe it is their duty to keep the police in the dark. I will watch for more episodes to come, as I hope she does not stop now. I especially love the descriptions of the Welsh country and city life.
The true story of molestation in a Welsh children's home is touched on in Ian McEwen's "Amsterdam." Very dark and gloomy but well-written. You won't find it easy to put down but you might find it depressing. Gays might be offended by the implied inkage of pedophilia and homosexuality.
Well-plotted mystery with a dark mood and plenty of red herrings. A child is found dead, possibly a suicide, though McKenna suspects murder. One thing is certain, the young boy was sexually assaulted though the folks at the children's reformatory claim that he was sexually active and provoking.
I would give this a higher rating except the Taylor's writing gets preachy implying that social workers don't care a tinker's whatever about abused children. She also perpetuates the myth that gays are pedophiles, peddling the worst homophobic claptrap.
It's well-written and I will give her another chance, but there are several places in this book when her ill-informed polemics made me want to throw it across the room.
Thank NetGalley and Endeavour Press for the opportunity to read this entertaining novel.
The novel's subject matter is a bit emotional, or some would consider it too sensitive, but the whole novel was written in a very sympathetic manner. I can't wait to read other books by this author.
I would like to thank NetGalley and Endeavour Press for giving me the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest and open review.
Child abuse is a very emotive subject to write about. Ms Taylor has managed to write about it in a sympathetic was.
This is a very dark story but the murder or suicide of a young boy would be.
The police are hindered at every turn by the staff at the care homes and the social workers. I would like to think that 20 years later this would not happen.
Although. because of the subject matter I did not enjoy this book, I will certainly be looking at other books by Ms Taylor.
I wanted to like this book because it's atmospheric and full of interesting details about Wales. I kept hoping that the disgusting homophobia and the misogyny of the "good" main characters would be shown to be wrong, but it was not. Instead the most pernicious myths that cause so many gay and lesbian teens to kill themselves were viciously affirmed, culminating in a strong message that gay youths should kill themselves as there is noting ahead for them except degradation and social ostracism. Two adult characters and three teens are depicted as having become gay because they were raped by men when they were young boys. They are the book's only gay characters we learn anything about. They experience gay sex as very painful, dirty, and "dark," and cannot form healthy relationships with others. The book repeatedly depicts all gay sex, whether consensual or not, whether between adults or not, as grotesque violation. Over and over the story insists that any male who is sexually assaulted by another male will have no option in life but to become a lisping, flaming, stinking (literally), disease-ridden pedophile. The author seems to assume that all gay sex is anal and that all anal sex hurts terribly and leaves those who practice it smelling like excrement, no matter how much they bathe (as one scene dramatizes.) Taylor apparently thinks she's advocating for young people, but I can't see why or how she thinks so. What she's really doing is exploiting the vulnerability of children in the social services system in order to write sensationalistic lies that will substantially add to the despair of anyone who has been molested. I hope no one who has been molested reads this cruel book! And that no gay teens do. And just FYI, I knew who the murderer was the moment he was introduced. there is no mystery here at all, just hate spewing.
While I applaud Alison Taylor's courage in tackling such an important subject (the abuse of at-risk children at the hands of those employed to protect them), I was not particularly impressed by In Guilty Night. Despite being rich in detail, the novel did not have a clear structure. Rather than progressing in a forward direction, In Guilty Night meandered. Over and over again, McKenna and his team are prevented from interviewing the children and staff of Blodwel, despite evidence of murder. Higher ups interfere. Sadly this is realistic, but the reader is kept in limbo for 2/3 of the book. The repetition and lack of progress gets boring pretty quickly. The novel would be far better if it had been streamlined more before publication. Topping it off, the ending is realistic but not very satisfying. Justice is on hiatus as the culprits are unreadable, and the investigation into the individuals involved is still in progress.
Alison Taylor has a definitive understanding of institutional abuse and the ingrained prejudice against children in care. That is extremely clear. Unfortunately, despite or perhaps because of its realism, In Guilty Night falters.
3/5
I received a copy of In Guilty Night from the publisher and netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review.
-Crittermom
Yes, would reccommend this book.
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