Why all the fighting when we can think?!It may be an unpopular opinion but now a days a large percentage of detective mysteries cum thrillers tends to emphasise on making the problem somehow personal to the protagonist of the story. Either their past comes back to haunt them or the killer somehow...
It wasn’t that she had been hoping for something else, just that it made things harder to comprehend. Jessica was sitting in a quiet corner of the station’s canteen reading through the coroner’s initial paperwork but there was nothing that jumped out at her, not that she w...
The Serious Crime Division always had it in their remit to step in and take on crimes of this magnitude, especially if solving it wasn’t proving too easy. Their timing was hard to take. Jessica and her team had already done the hard work – they had ...
It feels as if my legs are moving too fast for my body, as if I could fall at any moment. The few people who are left do nothing other than stare. The calmness I felt on the green has gone as I race without looking behind me. It’s hard to explain, as I don’t understand the...
Surprisingly, she fell asleep almost instantly and only woke up when her phone rang. Jessica fumbled around her nightstand, her hand flashing across the playing cards.‘What time is it,’ she asked groggily, without opening her eyes or moving her head from the pillow.‘It’s just gone six,’ said Reyn...
DS Reynolds was sitting at his own desk opposite hers. It was pretty clear their office was occupied by two very different people. On DS Reynolds’ side closest to the door, everything was in meticulous piles or filed away. On Jessica’s side, papers, notes and files were carefully ordered on the f...
She parked on the road outside and phoned him because she didn’t fancy getting out of the vehicle to ring the doorbell. He laughed at her laziness but soon emerged from the house carrying a small overnight bag across his shoulder and a suit hanger in his hand, which he put on the back seat, then ...
He didn’t say it but it was clear he was dreading walking back into the hotel with all of his staff knowing what had happened. As with any workplace, one or two people would have known and suddenly everyone did. The only thing really in his favour was that his car had been returned free of graffi...
The fact it didn’t heartened her even further.His office wasn’t quite in keeping with the rest of Freddy’s empire that Jessica had seen. Far from the sprawling driveway and enormous house surrounded by the greenery of Greater Manchester, the breeze-block building on the edge of an industrial esta...
. . You have to be tactful around them and understand they might be using you as much as you’re hoping to use them . . .’ Andrew’s mouth flopped open. He’d been used the entire time. He’d even told Jenny that the job had an element of using people and then missed it. What a fool. &nbs...
The fact is, it doesn’t matter what you want to do becausewe’ve got the camera footage and we’ve got a number plate from the moped. Your attacker wasclever enough to cover the plate on the roads close to your house but as we followed him on the streetcameras, he stopped to remove the bag and then...
When he left our village, Hart had a distinctive smile with large, well-built arms that came from years of helping out with various things around the place. He would unload supplies from the trains and deliver them. Now his face is thin, the bones jutting into his cheeks, and there is a hollownes...
The first hand had been left in exactly the right place and all the scouting had really paid off. Timings were the easy bit; now it was almost the longest day of the year, the sun came up nice and early. It meant there was plenty of light in the early hours but not too many people around to actua...
If it was still there, of course. Whatever happened to that hole? A few years previously, it was all scientists banged on about, now they were on to rising sea levels and who knew what else. Kitkat drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, nodding and umming as the occupa...
They now had a second connection to the rugby side as well as the school that linked the first hand to the second. She still had no idea how the woman in the black cape fitted into things – or if that person was January.At the station Jessica parked her car and went to find Izzy. As she walked in...
She had seen more tears in the past nine months than at any point during her life. Jessica could feel it weighing on her. Cole might have thought this would be the perfect way for her to get back into the job again but it was simply pouring more hurt on top of everything she had already experienc...
Technically, it was a degree or two warmer, but by the time the spine-chilling rain had dribbled through people’s clothes, it didn’t feel like it. Andrew left his car engine idling, the windscreen wipers squeaking back and forth in a losing battle against the elements. Jen...