Name: The Invisible Ones
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780857384805

Stef Penney

Rose Janko has been missing for seven years. Her family has made no attempt to find her. Why? Ray Lovell, private investigator, has been hired to discover Rose's fate. But he must first win the trust of the secretive, deceptive, dangerous Janko family, who son Ivo became Rose's husband. If Ray can get to the Jankos, he knows he can find the truth. If he fails, his life - and Rose's - will be over.

The Invisible Ones

Rose Janko is missing. It has been seven years since she disappeared, and nobody said a word. Now, following the death of his wife, her father Leon feels compelled to find her. Rumour had it she ran off when her baby boy was born with the family's genetic disorder. Leon is not so sure. He wants to know the truth and he hires a private investigator to discover it, Ray Lovell. Ray starts to delve deeper, but his investigation is hampered by the very people who ought to be helping him, the Jankos. He cannot understand their reluctance to help. Why don't they want to find Rose Janko?

The invisible ones

Sian Wadey

I haven't been able to go to A Book And A Beer Club in aaaaages because of my shift pattern. But now that my shift has changed I still can't go. But I've started reading the books to catch up and get back in to the swing of things.
I'd never heard of Stef Penney or her other books so I had no expectations going into this book. The Invisible Ones follows a private investigator called Ray and a fourteen year old boy called JJ as Ray investigates the disappearance of a woman named Rose Janko.
Following both narratives keeps it interesting, and it helps the reader understand more about this community of people. I also liked the glossary of words at the beginning of the book.
Overall, this is a different kind of missing persons case. I found it interesting, and as I was reading I felt myself getting sucked in without even realising it.
Although I've heard this is different to Stef Penney's other work, I am looking forward to reading it.

Hovering between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed, half-Romany private investigator Ray Lovell evaluates a dangerous case involving the missing wife of a charismatic traveling Gypsy whose hostile family is hiding a tragic and terrible secret. By the award-winning author of The Tenderness of Wolves.

The Invisible Ones

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