Jessie Keane

Stay Dead – Classic Annie Carter

Stay Dead is the six book in the Annie Carter series and takes us back to 1994, when she is back in the Caribbean, and Max is somewhere else in the world. When she receives a call, that her eldest friend Dolly has been shot and killed in her flat.

Annie vows to find out the truth about who killed Dolly and deal with them the underworld way. When she gets back to London, she is not welcomed back with open arms, but hostility and she just cannot understand what is going on. When she is snatched off the street and given a beating she really knows something is going on.

When Max turns up things become a little clearer, and he thinks she has been having an affair with her ‘dead’ mafia boss husband. Which means she has been getting the cold shoulder as they think he has been wronged.

Annie starts to put together what has been happening, even with the police sticking their noses in, she has to figure out that the past may have finally caught up with Dolly. While at the same time the mafia pledge of never talking has caught her out. Max wants to kill her dead husband, while he has to be reminded Annie and Max’s daughter also happens to be the daughter-in-law of said mafia boss.

Will Annie finally be able to convince Max there is nothing going on between her and her ex-husband? Will Max kill him when they meet? More importantly will Dolly’s killer be found, and the underworld justice be dealt out. For that to happen she really needs Max to believe her and be on her side. That would also bring a network of contacts into her world.

Jessie Keane really knows how to write a thriller that is a page turner, and even though the clues are there, can you work out who did what before the reveal? Keane knows how to keep the reader entertained and this thriller is proof of that.… (más)

The Edge – A Brilliant Ruby Darke Thriller

Jessie Keane is one of the top thriller writers in the country, and each book she writes is better than the last. The Edge is the third instalment in the Ruby Darke series taking us back to 1980, when the old bill was bent, there were no mobile phones, social media, and personal computing was still a decade away. But we did have Adam Ant, The Specials and Madness, The Sweeney and The Professionals.

Ruby Darke and her son Kit had their own manor in London, and like all good crime lords lived out in Essex, in a big house. Business is good and everything is well in the world for the go getter. Until at one of the warehouses where he offered security, the van delivering the wages was robbed and a name of another underworld boss is named.

Daisy, Kit’s sister is getting married to Rob, Kit’s right-hand man and best friend, everything goes well until Rob is killed by a gun shot along with the wedding photographer. Kit now really knows someone is after him and it looks like it will not stop. Someone has decided they want his manor and him gone, he knows he is the hunted and will have to turn tables and find the hunter first.

The police are trying to investigate the murder and the warehouse robbery, but they are up against Ruby Darke and her son Kit, things are not going to be easy. The police know the Darkes have police on the payroll and need to keep things close to the chest, so the Darkes do not find the killer first.

Jessie Keane is one of those authors who if you enjoy her work and just want more of her, in fact I want her latest thriller before she has even finished it. Her writing just grows on you and reminds you of other female writers who just happen to know how to hit that sweet spot that keeps you hooked.

A brilliant book by a fabulous author.… (más)

Fearless – Two Lionesses With No Love Lost Between Them

Jessie Keane knows how to really write thrillers keep the reader hooked and not let them go, even once the novel has finished. Her books always feature strong women, which is great to see, and I see various traits in the women I know, even some close family members. If you do not like strong women then this book is not for you, if you do, then you have two lionesses who hate each other going head to head. It ain’t going to be pretty!

Claire Milo and Josh Flynn have only ever had eyes for each other, living in a tight traveller community, they are inseparable and are intent on getting married and living out their days together. Shauna Everett, also a traveller, wants what she cannot have, and she is determined to have Josh Flynn to herself. She has watched as Josh has become a champion bare-knuckle fighter and king of the gypsies.

The night Josh becomes King of the Gypsies, Claire is warned off and told to leave the community and never come back if she wants her family to live. With her dog murdered, and raped she escapes to New York via Ireland. The love of her life gone and her family in danger. Alone in New York, pregnant and alone she has to fight to succeed, but always at the back of her mind is Josh, her one true love.

Shauna Everett has everything she wants, she has played dirty and won, soon to be married and pregnant she is away from the traveller community and on her way up in society. Josh never really loves Shauna, at times he feels trapped and the more he learns about Shauna the more he despises her and what she has done to him and Claire all those years ago.

While making a fortune to keep his wife in her expensive tastes and habits, he spreads his wings out to America, making fights, making money. One night out with his business partners he walks in to a club in New York and sees the one woman he has always loved, he cannot believe it. They reconnect and try and rebuild what they had. The more they do the more he hates Shauna.

Then one day, Josh dies in the ring in New York, and Shauna and Claire will come face to face and the claws are out. One of them is going to have to die. Shauna plays dirty and she knows how low to go, can Claire survive?

Jessie Keane keeps the reader hooked, her writing is addictive you just want more. This is no chick lit, this is full on thriller, with plenty of intrigue. Simply brilliant.… (más)

1970, East End of London and Annie Carter and her friends are back in the third instalment in the series of books.

I always like to read books in order and have done so far but I do think that this book can be just picked up without reading the other two. There are plenty of flashbacks for the reader to get the gist.

In this instalment of Annie's life, she's trying to continue after Maxs death in a very man world. Its not easy and its made worse for her when prostitutes are getting murdered. This series of books are very much in the vain of Martina Cole. I don't think they are as course as MC books but still are in keeping with their setting.

The book was an enjoyable read and the character's lives have plenty going on and its clear there is more to follow in the next book. I won't be in a rush to go snd get thd next book but wouldn't not ignore it either.… (más)