Jessica Daniel #15
Samuel is fourteen years old. He lives with his mother in a Manchester flat, goes to school, plays on his computer, reads books and likes the same things that most other teenagers do.
He’s also blind.
And he’s the only witness when his mother is attacked in their own home late one night.
With his hopes hung firmly on her and only his witness statement to go on, DI Jessica Daniel is facing an uphill battle to begin with – and that’s before an unidentified man with a ropey tattoo shows up in a gutter with his head kicked in.
Something strange is happening in Jessica’s team. Someone close to her has a secret – and when it comes out, everything is going to change.
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Review
I felt very sad having to say goodbye to Jessica and Archie. I love the banter between them and they always make me smile.
I think a bit of humour in a thriller is great to break the sometimes harsh ‘reality’ of the book. I often hear that police officers need this in order to stay sane and I do understand that. If you cannot find an outlet, it drags you down in the end.
This story proves for the umpteenth time what makes the world turn: money. Very often it drives people to do their worst, but sometimes, even though you don’t really hurt someone, you still go against their wishes in trying to convince them to do or not do something. All for the love of money and often for very small amounts.
Can you ever have enough money? I don’t think so, but you can most certainly have to little and that’s what makes people do the craziest things.
I do have to react to a sentence from the book. It said ‘Nothing good’s ever come from Belgium’. Well, dear author, me, being from Belgium cannot agree with that. 🙂 😉
I like Jessica and Archie because both of them colour outside the lines. All for the good cause though and in that case, I can have their backs.
A great story and I learned something I did not know it existed. 5 stars
Thank you
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About the author
Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.
He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.
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Author Links
http://facebook.com/KerryWilkinsonBooks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerrywk
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Book Link
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