📖 Book Review ~ Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

Armillary Books
2023

Thanks to Midas Campaigns for my copy of this book

June is the National Crime Reading Month and I am pleased to share my review of this crime novel by Lou Gilmond…

 

When Chief Whip Esme Kanha learns of the sudden death of the Minister for Personal Information, she bitterly regrets missing his desperate calls the previous evening. Unconvinced by the verdict of suicide, and suspicious that corrupt colleagues played some part in the man’s death, she decides to investigate – but she must tread carefully in a near-future world dominated by technology, where ‘what can see watches, what can hear listens, and what can be followed is tracked’.

Meanwhile, Big Tech executive Henri Lauvaux arrives in London. His mission: to ensure the new minister, Harry Colbey, will not prove as problematic as the last. As the West inexorably slides towards an Orwellian ‘Big Brother’ future, Harry Colbey and Esme Kanha join forces in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against political corruption – at great cost to themselves.

📖 My Review

Set some time in our troubled future this political thriller hits the ground running with the violent and unexpected death of a member of parliament, with Harry Colbey, his successor immediately rushed into post, it would seem that order has been restored as Colbey is seen as a safe replacement. However, with a strict a strict moral code, Colbey soon discovers that there are plans afoot which will alter the course of AI information sharing. Meanwhile chief whip Esme Kanha is also having grave doubts about the integrity of her political colleagues.

What then follows is a fast action political thriller whic takes the concept of a corrupt government and runs with it until its exciting conclusion. I enjoyed all the clever political innuendo and even though this is set in a somewhat futuristic environment there is no doubt that AI intelligence is frighteningly with us with its capabilities of doing exactly what this book suggests, namely interfering in all aspects of our personal life along with the wider implications for our social and political world.

This is the first book in a trilogy of books featuring Esme Kanha and Harry Colbey, I’m looking forward to reading them and also being on the blog tour for Divinity Games in July.

About the Author

Lou Gilmond is the author of three political thrillers - Dirty Geese, published 6th July 2023, Palisade published 21st November 2024 and Divinity Games to be published 17th July 2025. Under her given name of Louise Boland, Lou is also the founder of small but well respected publishing house, Fairlight Books,which focusing on nurturing and promoting new and emerging literary talent. She is also the author Bookshop Tours of Britain, a slow travel guide journeying across Britain, bookshop by bookshop - Lou is a keen champion of bookshops.