Begging to Die

Katie Maguire, Book 10

By: Graham Masterton

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

An abandoned child.

A young girl has been found in a deserted cemetery. She speaks a foreign language, and she cries for her mother. But nobody claims her. Nobody knows who she is.

A killer with a message.

On the streets of Cork, beggars are being horrifically murdered. But why would anyone want to kill the city's homeless? It's up to DS Katie Maguire to find out.

A crusade against cruelty.

Katie's fiancé is fighting his own battle: against illegal puppy farming, a lucrative black market run by Ireland's most fearsome gangs. When the investigations collide, who will Katie save first? She knows that for those left behind, there's only one choice: Start begging to die.

©2019 Graham Masterton (P)2019 Head of Zeus

Is the author a misogynist? Awful…

Wow. I’m an avid consumer of international crime fiction and absolutely love the narrator, Aoife McMahon, which is why I downloaded this book. The protagonist, Katie Maguire, is a likable character, but the author punishes her cruelly. In previous books, her husband died, her child died, and her lover cheats on her. SPOILER ALERT!!! In this book alone, cheating lover reappears as her boss, her new fiancé is gelded during a beating, then same fiancé suicide bombs the people responsible for his beating, and the story ends with former cheating lover raping Katie. Never mind what the rest of the book is about. Enough said-I’ll never read another thing by this author.

The plot was ridiculous

Way too graphic and far too much going on. The narrator did a decent job but the source material was garbage. The only positive I can say is that the author did his research on the local geography but apart from that, it was a brutal listen.