BURIED LIES by Peter O'Mahoney

5* Wow. Wow. Wow. The perfect end to this (for now?) trilogy. The author absolutely saved the best for last.

I think my headline pretty much says it all. Events in the end of this tale have been building through 2 books; cases worth reading about; bad guys who thought they were above the law; people who wanted to do the right thing but were scared to; a mafia of sorts, and THE best of endings. Too many books don't tie up ends. This does. Justice gets done for one person, and wheels turn in a different way for another who'd been set up. The biggest baddie from this series gets his comeuppance, with a literal fall at Dean Lincoln's feet. I half wished Dean would kick the man when he was down, because the bastard deserved it. Deserved every person who ratted on him. Deserved to lose face, to lose his power by being broken down and revealed as the common thug he was. Now if only the deceased judge and his thug sons could've faced justice...

I'm not sure where this series goes from here. There's a lot of run-of-the-mill routine cases that Dean and Bruce could take. They could take their pick of cases, because I'm sure there'd be many who'd sue the baddie, but Dean's got his icing on his cake in Heather. He's achieved justice for the worthy, the wronged, the oppressed. He's gotten, together with Emma, their dream. A certain person close to them is still around, against the odds. But life for them in the Lowlands is just beginning, clean, fresh, untainted and without fear. This has been a great series leading to an excellent and satisfying final book in this trilogy. 

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Thomas and Mercer for my reading pleasure.

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