Ripped through this in super quick time, the 13th book in the Jessica Daniel series. I loved that it was a sort of standalone, concentrating on one story - the disappearance of Bex - and in one new location - Blackpool rather than Manchester. Lots of new characters appeared as Jessica couldn’t resort to the usual gang and it was an interesting mystery that worked itself out really well. The author sums up this story afterwards by calling it the end of Jessica’s second season, so I might pause my reading there until we know what the future of this series is going to be.

Another good entry into the Jessica Daniel canon, with our hero pulled into a secret investigation over some crimes that may be a copycat or may be a prisoner just released back into society. I liked the growth of relationships in this one, with Jessica working closer with her new superior and of course relying on Izzy and Dave to do a lot of the legwork. There are moments of danger for the wider group but it all comes good in the end, with another clifthanger right at the last moment to leave me diving into the next book.

I’m racing through these Jessica Daniel books, having picked the series up again after a long break. This one featured a handful of different crimes again, with the main focus being on a prison break and the effects that flow out from that specific moment in time. I found it a little bit hard to follow in the middle but of course, it’s the main characters and how they interact that really keeps you reading - the camaraderie, and of course, keeping up with what’s going to happen next!

I very quickly read through this after hopping back on the Jessica Daniel bandwagon. It didn’t pick up immediately after the cliffhanger of the previous book - some time has passed and our characters are still dealing with the fallout of the situation. This book continues the recent tradition of Jessica trying to understand her role as a more hands-off detective, rather than kicking down doors, but also layers in an element of whether she even wants to stay in the profession. Add to that a couple of interlinked crimes to solve and an ill-advised fling with a colleague, and you’ve got a great read.

It’s been a while since I read a Jessica Daniel book and it took me a minute to get back into the world again. If I’m honest, I could only remember the huge elements of the series so far, not all of the details, but as always with a book like this, anything important was given a timely reminder where it impacted on the current story. It felt a little bit like this book was missing a huge central crime, there were a few ongoing cases of course, but that’s because it was more about what was going on behind the scenes.

I love Kerry Wilkinson’s books, and this was another really good thriller mystery, where two sisters return to a Cornish village from their childhoods to move on from trauma, but in turn finding more to deal with as they go along. There are some really great, but potentially triggering, descriptions of struggling with an eating disorder, and the scenes in the cave were genuinely very tense. The rising stakes, the feeling that the truth might never come out, it was really well-paced and well-written. Good times.

An interesting thriller that starts with a woman waking up in her car, in the middle of a field, in the early hours of the morning. She doesn’t know what happened or why she’s there or why her car has blood on it. A great premise and things kick off well. After a few days of suspecting everyone of everything, we wind up to a satisfying conclusion as we learn more about our protagonist’s history and how her friends and extended family fit into the picture.

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